The Equitable Commute Project Hosted NYC Leaders & Delivery Workers to Celebrate E-Bike Safety Legislation

15 Oct 2023 | Abstracted from Bicycling

"Under the SAFE Program, NYC-based delivery workers can apply to trade-in their non-compliant e-bike or moped in exchange for heavily discounted pricing on UL-2849 certified e-bikes with two batteries...the city has between 50,000 and 75,000 delivery workers...A low-cost,12-month loan is also available to delivery workers...through Sept. 14 of this year, cops have seized 8,607 mopeds, more than double the 4,085 seized during the same period last"

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