E-Bike Battery Fire Chinatown June 20,23 The Village Sun

This Village Sun piece is a second coverage of the Lithium Battery fire that caused 4 deaths and 2 injuries in Chinatown. Included because of the excellence of the information. In depth and insightful. Demonstrates the value of community reporting. In particular Councilman Christopher Marte has a plan to make the app companies responsible for providing their delivery agents with the government approved batteries that are likely to avoid combustion.Those appsters mandate hair raising delivery times. Causing the agents to break the law, cause dangerous conditions, in order to comply. The blame lies with the appsters. Secondarily the tip hungry law breaking deliveristas.The convenience loving public pays the price. Another recent story described how deliveristas so comfortable breaking the law and casuing dangerous conditions on the streets and sidewalks are now forming posses to try to recapture delivery bikes that are stolen while they make deliveries. The law breakers are now taking the law into their own hands to enforce the law which has not been enforced against them. Ah such is another day in paradise. The zealots behind Vision Zero sedulously prevented the city from enforcing traffic laws against rogue cyclists. Thus undermining the NYPD and allowing daily danger to thrive on the streets and sidewalks. It is said that then Mayhor Bloomberg was complicit in withholiding enforcement because he wanted to attract the Tech Industry. And incidentally inflate real estate prices. Allow techies to ride without repercussion for law breaking and reap the reward of the ripple effects-for decades. Just another day in paradise. https://thevillagesun.com/four-killed-two-critically-injured-from-fire-in-two-bridges-e-bike-repair-shop