E-Bikes, Jobs at TA, Trinity Park
Dear Friend,
E-micromobility — which includes e-bikes, e-scooters, and e-cargo bikes — is transforming how we get around New York City.
The Bronx’s successful e-scooter pilot has connected residents to jobs, schools, subway stations, and more. E-bikes account for nearly 40% of all Citi Bike rides despite making up just 20% of the fleet. And e-bikes are an essential tool for the city’s 60,000+ delivery workers.
We’ve developed a platform for New York City’s leaders to successfully and safely embrace this opportunity. This platform, created with input from our partners, hinges on three key elements:
Transforming our car-centric streets into spaces that support a diversity of transportation options.
Encouraging New Yorkers to transition away from car-ownership by making e-micromobility accessible and affordable with financial incentives.
Aiding New Yorkers in safely charging and storing their e-micromobility batteries, as well as safely operating their e-bikes and scooters.
We need bold leadership to embrace the transformative growth of e-micromobility. Reducing car trips is the single greatest thing we can do today to make our streets safer, our air cleaner, our buses faster, and our city less congested.
Affordable, efficient transportation access is the single most important factor in the potential to escape poverty, and it is critical to our city’s equitable future.
Three things to know
Join our team and help transform NYC streets. For 50 years, we’ve successfully advocated for changes to our streets that others thought were impossible. We’re hiring a Bronx/Uptown Organizer, a Digital Communications Coordinator, and part-time Field Team Ambassadors.
Outer-borough New Yorkers in poverty will benefit from congestion pricing. For every working New Yorker in poverty who will regularly pay the fee — just 2% of residents — 50 workers will benefit through investments in a better transit system.
In the news. Here’s what we’re reading this week:
If you needed more evidence of the bike boom, Streetsblog covered Citi Bike’s record-breaking ridership.
Speaking of which, Curbed spoke to 12 New Yorkers — including our Staten Island and South Brooklyn Organizer Rose Uscianowski — about how Citi Bike changed the way we get around.
We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: New Jersey will benefit from congestion pricing too. Read a new editorial in the Star-Ledger about how congestion pricing is good for our neighbors across the Hudson.
Two things to do
RSVP for our free block party in June. You’re invited to our 50th anniversary celebration from noon to 4 p.m. on the 34th Avenue Open Street in Jackson Heights, Queens. We’ll have food, giveaways, family-friendly fun, and more. RSVP for free today.
Join us for a Trinity Park picnic this Saturday. Bridges 4 People activists are hosting a picnic at noon, Saturday, in historic Trinity Park! The park sits at the hub of the Manhattan Bridge approach, a critical bike, pedestrian, and vehicular artery connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan.
One thing to do right now
See if you can join the NYS Safe Streets Coalition for a lobby day in Albany. With less than a month to go in session, we’re fighting for passage of the full SAFE Streets Act, including Sammy’s Law (which would allow safer, lower speed limits in New York City). If you can join us on May 23, please take a couple minutes to RSVP now.
