CM Brewer on bike and e-bike accident trends at H&H hospitals
Brewer asks about bike crashes and e-bike accidents. Katz, as a manual bicycle rider, blames e-bikes and scooters for increased accidents due to speed, noting many wrist fractures at Bellevue. He emphasizes everyone needs to follow traffic laws.
All right, now about this, I have to deal with bike.
Pass and bike.
I know I saw the helmet.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
All right.
Go ahead.
Okay.
So I have to deal with people like bikes and people don't like bikes.
That's how it works.
And so when you try to build a new...
I would say infrastructure, all hell breaks loose.
My question is, in the papers, mostly the post, there's a lot of concern upping the number of, I would say, crashes, accidents, or not.
In other words, do you see more at Bellevue, or is it just other?
Hospitals that are racking up.
Give me a sense of what you think we are with this industry in terms of...
Accidents are up, but I would personally, as a manual bicycle rider, I blame the e-bikes and these electronic scooters because they just go way faster.
And that's what causes the accidents, right?
It's the fact that people are coming at you really quickly.
And so we've seen a lot more accidents.
At Bellevue too, or at all your hospitals.
All hospitals indefinitely at Bellevue and a lot of scooters, a lot of wrist fractures.
And, you know, I think the issue of the bike lanes, again, as someone who uses them all the time, is that you're still...
supposed to follow the law.
Like when the light turns red, you stop.
Right.
A bike lane is not a, you know, welcoming to go through a red light.
And so everybody needs to, you know, pay attention.
So, sorry, one quick thing.
Can we take a quick pause because our public advocate has to go to the airport, and then we'll go back to Councilmember Brewer right after.
Great.