Bicycling

Now Do Cars: NYC Pushing Speed Limits for E-Bikes Instead of Addressing Clear and Present Danger

The signs show that the city's priorities are completely backwards.

By Kevin Duggan

12:02 AM EDT on June 11, 2025

Now Do Cars: NYC Pushing Speed Limits for E-Bikes Instead of Addressing Clear and Present Danger

The signs show that the city’s priorities are completely backwards.

Kevin Duggan

Kevin Duggan joined Streetsblog in October, 2022, after covering transportation for amNY. Duggan has been covering New York since 2018 after getting his masters in journalism from Dublin City University in Ireland. After some freelancing, he landed a job with Vince DiMiceli’s Brooklyn Paper, where he covered southern Brooklyn neighborhoods and, later, Brownstone Brooklyn.

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