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Speed kills. Speeding ruins lives. New York drivers constantly hear this message from government. 

Why, then, does the city accept the proliferation of illegal motorized electronic “devices” like the 53 mph scooter whose driver killed himself and a bicyclist Thursday on the Queensboro Bridge?

And why does Gotham accept dangerous behavior from the operators of legal e-scooters and e-bikes, too? 

Thursday morning, a 35-year-old cyclist was using the Queensboro Bridge’s new bike-only path to travel from Manhattan to Queens.

A 39-year-old man driving an illegal stand-up e-scooter capable of reaching highway speeds smashed into the cyclist head-on, obliterating both lives.  

Why was this individual driving a dangerous device on a path meant for slower-moving cyclists? 

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Lack of effective rules and enforcement.  

E-bikes and stand-up e-scooter drivers must follow the rules of the road.

Theoretically, they can’t go over 15mph on city roads — and they can’t be capable of going more than 20.

But because their drivers don’t need........

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