TROUBLE WITH E BIKE BATTERIES

 Lithium batteries-fires-risk.

                                                         THE CITY  Nov 22,22

                                         

Dear New Yorkers, E-bikes are everywhere these days, often carrying your latest food order from block to block. And with them come a worrying trend: more fires involving the batteries that power them. Badly maintained lithium-ion batteries used with the cheap transportation devices have led to a big uptick in fires — especially in the one- and two-story homes in working-class neighborhoods of Queens, Brooklyn and The Bronx. THE CITY obtained the locations of all e-bike battery-related fires in the city, and the map of them shows a string of places where delivery workers live: Corona, Sunset Park, Morrisania and the Lower East Side, among other places. We talked to experts about what causes the dangerous fires (answer: poor care and unregulated products) and what e-bike riders can do to stay safe. Read more here. Some other items of note:

                              CHARLES KOMANOFF-WRONG on NUCLEAR ENERGY

                                                     WRONG ON VISION 0 ??

                         Before he left office the popular Brooklyn Boro President Marty Markowitz

                        referred to the frantic intensity with which the advocates for Vision 0 were

                        pursuing a carless city as "zealotry". Having managed to prosoletyze

                       then DOT Commissioner J Sadik Khan and persuade Mayor Bloomberg                                                         that one way  to attract  the tech industry was to minimize enforcement on the

                       techies who fanicied riding bikes for transportation and fun a fanatic and

                       irresponsible course was set which has resulted in a city without a responsible

                      micro transport culture and a public safety crisis.Further the NYPD has been

                       undermined. There was never an environmental impact study done. The

                       city now has world class congestion which has not been beneficial for air quality

                       which was the initial pitch to arouse the fervor of the followers.

                       Charles Komanoff was one of the founders of Transportation Alternatives.

                       He has spun a shape shifting web of statistics and sophistry to continue to

                       support Vision 0 while the ctiy continues to suffer deaths by cyclists and numberless

                       accidents caused by bike riding rogues who hit pedestrians. The statistcs are not

                       kept for emergency room visits.It is not possible to calculate the close calls that

                       have resulted in a justified paranoia on the part of pedestrians young and old.

                       The following is a link to a story concerning the 180 degree about face on the

                       use of nuclear energy by Komanoff. He had been a vociferous and omnipresent

                       detractor of the use of nuclear energy. Now as the reality of global warming has

                       become incontrovertible he has capitulated to right and reason.

                       About the same time that Komanoff took up his cudgel against nuclear energy

                       he had a vision on a carless New York City. Given the epidemic of insult, injury

                       loss of business, expanded emergency response time and the stress of living in

                       an environment of ongoing jeopardy and the recognition that far from improving

                       the environment Vision 0 has maligned it-it is time for reasonable and responsible

                       people to acknowledge that Charles Komanoff was WRONG on NUCLEAR ENERGY

                       and is WRONG on VISION 0.

                      

https://cgnp.org/climate-worries-galvanize-a-new-pro-nuclear-movement-in-the-u-s/

                     

https://cgnp.org/climate-worries-galvanize-a-new-pro-nuclear-movement-in-the-u-s/

Jack Brown <emalejac@gmail.com>	Fri, Nov 11, 4:43 AM (2 days ago)
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                   A lithium battery in an E Bike caught fire and ignited a building blaze that injured 43.

                                                     The Gothamist

                           https://gothamist.com/news/e-bike-fire-injures-38-in-midtown-east-apartment-building?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=nypr-email&utm_campaign=Gotham

                         FORBES MAG-BIKE LANES DON'T MAKE SAFE CYCLING

                      Forbes details another of the futile and fatal flaws that the empirical

                      environmental impact study of Vision Zero has revealed. Bike Lanes

                      do not make safe cycling. Safe cyclists make safe cycling. The intentional

                      lack of a responsible 2 wheeled culture lands squarely on the febrile shoulders

                      of the 2 wheeled advocates. They prevailed on previous mayors to withhold

                      NYPD enforcement to increase ridership. The hypotheses being that the more

                      bikes on the streets the safer the streets.This has been proven to be wrong.

                      No matter how the statistics are spun. No matter how specious the arguments.

                                       https://www.forbes.com/sites/dianafurchtgott-roth/2022/09/08/bike-lanes-dont-make-cycling-safe/?sh=55cbff854ca8

Emergency Response Times Increased due to Street Additions

                      Emergency Response Times Expanded Costing Lives

                            This is a piece from the NY Post detailing how the various

                     additions to street archetecture-bike lanes, Bike racks,outdoor dining

                     shacks have made it diffiicult to impossible for emergency vehicles to

                    negotiate the streets to respond to emergencies. Fire trucks and EMS

                    vehicles are burdened and response times have expanded. Deaths have

                    resulted and will continue to result. Unnecessary. Akin to the unnecessary

                    deaths resulting from a city without a responsible 2 wheeled culture.

                                      ncontrovertible evidence-stats...facts...

"Critics point to the Big Apple’s controversial street-closure and outdoor-dining programs aimed at boosting economic recovery during the pandemic. They also blame new bike lines, road barriers and other anti-car policies made under former Mayor de Blasio’s “Vision Zero” initiative aimed at reducing traffic deaths.

“When you see the amount of construction with the bike lanes and those issues in certain areas, you have instances where these long [fire] trucks can no longer make the turn onto or off of a block,” said Andrew Ansbro, president of the Uniform Firefighters Association. 

“It definitely causes delays, and delays cost lives.”

Rising NYC fire deaths, response times blamed on traffic measures

Rising NYC fire deaths, response times blamed on traffic measures More New Yorkers are dying in fires as FDNY response times continue to surge.

                   

TASK FORCE to address PUBLIC SAFETY CRISIS( excerpt from Mayor Adam's OP ED on Rikers reform)

                                      

     This is an exerpt from Mayor Adam's Op Ed  addressing the reforms that are being implemented

at the Riker's Island Correctional Facility. Riker's Island is generally acknowledged to be a

"Hellhole". Allowed to become a nearly lawless environment. Not good for the incarcerated.

The employees. For society. There is a similar need for a multi agency TASK FORCE to address

the PUBLIC SAFETY and mental health crisis bludgeoning the quality of life on the city streets and

sidewalks. We the public respectfully request that Manhattan Boro President Mark Levine step

to this crisis and form such a TASK FORCE.

                                         

Though we are only 10 months into this new era, Commissioner Molina and the Task Force have already been singled out in the latest Nunez Monitor Status Report for their efforts to make progress. The latest report, released just last week, stated that the Task Force has “effectively resolved a number of issues that required multiagency collaboration and cooperation.” The report also praised the commissioner’s hiring decisions, clear mandates and courage to make unpopular yet important changes.

We know that a tremendous amount of hard work lies ahead in order to make our jails safer, but I’m proud that the report recognized the work that Commissioner Molina and his team have already done within a short ti