Originally Posted by
Inisfallen
We have indeed become a city of people who are incapable of feeding themselves. And thus the proliferation of delivery riders on ebikes.
And, while I have the utmost sympathy for these riders trying to scratch out a living, it's out of control. It's dangerous. I ride my bike from midtown-west Manhattan to my home in Brooklyn just about every night. At around 11:30, so I'm always riding in the dark. And every night, every single night, no exceptions, I get startled by delivery riders coming at me fast, in the dark, quite often without lights, going the wrong way in the bike paths. It's a problem.
It is out of control, and I’m sure you are hitting those times when so many people are “drunk ordering” food delivery, hence so many of the delivery bikers out. The salmoning that you mention is also a problem I wasn’t thinking of, but they do it. A lot!