NYC’s crackdown on reckless e-biker riders is over as Mamdani pumps the brakes

The Big Apple is ending its crackdown on e-bike drivers for blowing stop signs or illegally zipping along city sidewalks, Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration announced Wednesday.

Starting next Friday, March 27, the NYPD will no longer issue criminal summonses to e-bikers and cyclists for traffic offenses, according to City Hall.

Instead, two-wheeler traffic violations will be handled with civil summonses.

“By ending criminal summonses for low-level traffic offenses, we’re ensuring cyclists and e-bike riders — including those who deliver our food and groceries — are treated like others on the road,” Mamdani said in a statement.

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch has repeatedly defended the crackdown, including after City Council members claimed the ticket blitz could lead to immigrant drivers losing their licenses or possibly being deported.

“This is not a war on e-bikes, this is a response to very real concerns that are widely held across virtually every borough, every New Yorker in this city,” Tisch said last year during a council hearing when pressed by Mamdani comrade Tiffany Caban.

Tisch went as far as to pen an op-ed in The Post in support of the blitz, launched under Mamdani’s predecessor, Mayor Eric Adams.

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“When vehicle drivers fail to respond to a traffic summons, their licenses can be suspended,” she wrote, “but e-bikes do not require any license, so their operators can simply ignore a traffic summons with virtually no meaningful repercussions.

“Now, we’re closing that loophole by issuing c-summonses —the only real option available under the law to hold reckless e-bike operators accountable.”

Notably, Tisch was not quoted in the press release, which came from City Hall, not the NYPD.