It wasn’t instantly clear whether or not the restrict would additionally apply to conventional, pedal powered bicycles — which have change into ensnared within the metropolis’s latest e-bike crackdowns.
In line with a number of sources conversant in the matter, an end-of-week announcement of a bicycle pace restrict has been mentioned in conferences with the mayor’s senior employees. Spokespeople for Adams’ workplace didn’t instantly return requests for touch upon Wednesday afternoon.
Mayor Eric Adams speaks throughout a press convention Tuesday, June 3, 2025 in Manhattan, New York. (Barry Williams/ New York Every day Information)
The anticipated transfer from Adams comes as his administration has made cracking down on bicycle enforcement a precedence.
Final month, Adams’ NYPD started handing out felony summonses to bike riders — each electrical cyclists and pedal-powered ones — accused of operating crimson lights or in any other case using recklessly.
That transfer, a drastic change from the established order of motorbike riders getting civil summonses for site visitors infractions, has triggered outrage from transit advocates and a few Metropolis Council members, who be aware that penalties are much less severs for operating a crimson mild in a automobile or truck.
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An e-bike deliveryman is pictured in Manhattan in 2023. (Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Every day Information)
Talking throughout his weekly press convention at Metropolis Corridor on Tuesday, Adams advised one thing wanted to be finished about bicycle speeds within the 5 boroughs.
“I don’t know if you have crossed over some of these bike lanes and seen how fast people are riding. It is out of control,” he instructed reporters. “I have not gone to one community board forum, one community senior forum, where they haven’t said over and over again for almost a year now: ‘Mayor, I need you to do something about this.’”
Most authorized e-bikes are at the moment restricted to a 20 mph high pace. Rental electrical Citi Bikes are slower, topping out at 18 mph, as required by the town’s Division of Transportation.
Rental electrical Citi Bikes at the moment high out at 18 mph, as required by the town’s Division of Transportation.. (Shutterstock)
The quickest and strongest e-bikes, identified within the trade as “Class 3″ bikes, are allowed to travel up to 25 mph on New York City’s streets and bike lanes — though many are capable of traveling faster. City law does not require riders to wear helmets, unless an e-bike is being ridden for commercial purposes, like delivery work, or is on one of the faster “Class 3” machines.
Conventional, non-motorized bicycles are at the moment anticipated to observe the posted pace restrict for automobiles and vans — 25 mph on most streets, however slower on some streets designated by the town DOT.
Initially Revealed: June 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM EDT
