Steven Fulop, the Mayor of Jersey City. He is smarter than the average american politician.

Idk who this Brad Davis guy is, but he is pretty obviously garbage with trash opinions

The only point that was even remotely valid was the "over 30" bit, and that's already covered by laws on e-bike classifications.
If your e-bike doesn't cut pedal assist at 28, or throttle only at 20, it is now a motorcycle and must be licensed and registered as such.
- I get mad at this stuff. A motorcycle license is not that hard to get; just take MSF. Add turn signals and a license plate holder, and remove the vestigial pedals, and you're basically there.
  Just from an engineering perspective, bike parts are not meant for that kind of speed and torque. The frames can't handle it, the tires can't handle it, the chains can't handle it, and the brakes can't handle it. If you want motorcycle speeds, get motorcycle parts.
- An e-bike that provides petal assist up to 28 MPH is a class 3 Motorized Bicycle and requires license and registration. Also can't take it on bicycle paths. https://thecyclistchoice.com/resources/new-jersey-ebike-laws/
  You can only go up to 20MPH for class 1 (petal assist only) and 2 (has a throttle) e-bikes and those you can take anywhere a regular bike can go.
  So if the bike is doing ~30, they're supposed to have license and registration just like any other vehicle on the road.
- .. and most importantly, operated as one--including all the same 'rules of the road' as other 'motorized vehicles'.

I love the not so subtle end point for our asshole comment.

Good USians know to drive wrecklessly down our streets. It's those damn illegals riding electric bikes wrecklessly that's the problem!
- Their true crime is "existing while brown".
- No, they drive quite wreckfully due to how reckless they are.
Complaining about non-white people in Jersey City is like complaining about water near the ocean. If it's a problem for you, it's your own fault for being there.

They just couldn't resist that last point.... tells you everything

Different shit, same stink. These people are usually no different than the racists from the 60s–70s that helped to create the shitty urban landscape these efforts are trying to fix.
- yeah the redlining and blasting highways through neighborhoods of color... what the fuck....

Ohh no, 30mph! That was way quicker than a Ford Mustang!

Gosh, that's like about 50 kmph, that is really too quick for people that usually lack any protection. Person riding a bike even with helmet can get quite an injury if gets into an accident...
- While i agree, i'm pretty sure it happened once or twice to them and they amplify it as a crisis. Not to mention the emphasise on racial.
- Pedestrians typically don't wear any protection regardless.
Of course it is, in todays traffic

Brad “Why yes, I am a complete fuckwit! How did you know!” Davis unintentionally demonstrating how many pedestrians and cyclists likely feel in the vicinity of cars and trucks is irony on a cosmological fucking scale, jfc

No way Brad is a real person. @USCasual? "His" tweets and replies are designed to stir up trouble (although apparently he's had an account for a while).
Kudos to Mayor Fulop on his points and not getting sidetracked by this.
- He's the heel! Booooooooo!

Brad Davis giving us a working example of how cars and racism are interlinked in society.

Funny. A lot of the people I see riding scooters are white. They must be illegals from Canada or Germany.

The only people I see on ebikes are those dang nabbit youths.

My biggest fear is they don't know the rules of the road or have any practical experience in a car to have defensive driving/riding skills. They don't know when they are in someone's blind spot or what it is like to be a driver in a familiar area while agitated (such as local Walmart parking lot or that on ramp that always has idiots and confusing signs or the stoplight that always has congestion.. etc)

They have no clue how dumb I can be or what I've witnessed. Stop at the stop signs at least and don't drive so close to parked cars going 20mph

This is a very, very good point. Giving moderately high speed vehicles to youth, without bodily protection like at least a helmet, is very dangerous. It should at least be against the law not to have a helmet.
But yes, young people are very bad at assessing the situation at any given moment in traffic. This comes after a few years of spending time in traffic. Not even after you have your license. Way after that fact.
With all that said, building for people rather than cars is a good move any day, IMO.
- Helmet laws are tricky. They discourage people (especially low income) from riding bikes at all, and disproportionately give that same group extra legal or financial trouble.
Thank you for coming to this grandpa‘s ted talk
Funny enough, ebike users I see around here in GA (Panthersville/Decatur, few miles outside Atlanta) are all adults, generally above 30s. Younger people seem to use electric scooters. My bother and I both are in our 40s with ebikes, and even perusing an expensive bike store to see what they had(money I could afford) it was older couple I saw asking questions. Obviously anecdotal.
- same here in sweden, e-bikes are hideously expensive, no way kids can afford one.
  meanwhile e-scooters are like 400€ and way more portable, perfect for kids.
- Lemmy too local. Going to Dragon Con?

Hoping that percolates to the rest of NJ.

Maybe eventually...

NJ. Is the most densely populated state, we should have state wide mass transit. A huge portion of the state commutes to NYC or Philly regularly.
- I agree by far! Give me public transport that doesn't take a fucking hour to get where I need to go! If I want to take the bus to my mother's place it takes two and a half hours! How long does it take to drive? THIRTY MINUTES.
  I want Jitneys everywhere though, cause I love them. I should not be in charge of the actual implementation of this.

Could someone explain what is meant by microtransit?

I first thought it'd be like those electric scooter hire, or maybe bike hire schemes.
But looking on line it looks like it might be just a city run version of uber.
- Isn't that just taxis? Or is there something I'm missing?
I used to live in a rural county that had regular bus routes which worked as one would expect and shorter busses you could schedule for a window the day prior or earlier. They would figure out allocation ahead of time show up and pick up and drop off a bunch of folks and drive everywhere in the boondocks.
This served as a connection between areas too rural to be Worth serving with regular routes and the more traveled parts.

Ebikes that do 30mph? That's a special category called speedpedelec here. Need a license to ride, mandatory helmet, mandatory insurance and mandatory license plate on the "bike". All other electrified bicycles are called ebikes, no license, plates or helmet required (but I insist you wear one anyway), they're limited to 25kph (what is that, like 14mph?) assisted and the motor can't exceed 250W.

Where is that out of curiosity? I don't know the laws everywhere of course not even in different states, but I was able to get a 500W(advertised at 1000 peak) off of Amazon here in GA, US for fairly cheap and ride it without any issues.
Looking at the GA state laws, it would count as a class 3 ebike (under 750W pedal assist higher than 20 mph but lower than 29 mph)(also has a mode that works as class 2, full motor up to 20mph but I never use it), which just means I have to be above 15 and wear a helmet. Technically, I should always ride it on the road instead of on the sidewalk, but the sidewalks around here hardly ever have people on them, so I mix between.
I do generally prefer lower pedal assist since I use it for exercise as well, and I don't feel comfortable going above 20 anyway so I only hit max 25 going down hills because I'm already trying to brake if I'm going above 23 or so
- Central EU, Belgium
Are regular cyclists allowed to ride faster than 30MPH?
- If the posted speed is >30mph and you juiced your legs like Armstrong, then I guess, at least here, it's fair game.
  Large groups of cyclists can go between 40 and 50kph on a level road, so if they go downhill then sure.

Wasn’t he the guy that wanted to get to the bottom of the UFO drone thing?

Via is a public services scam and should be a scandal. "ride with via" yeah how about you fucking pay your workers a living wage, stop playing 'contractor status' games with your fucking employees and better yet, stop existing and give the money back to actual public transit solutions, because uber-run-by-the-city doesn't fucking count and if you've ever actually used the service you know why, and I feel like the "fuck cars" comm might have exercised a bit more discretion in throwing their implicit endorsement here. Also, now that I have reason to look at this guy's stats, what stat is he quoting? Did he select recent data from the pandemic? How would we know? He doesn't cite a source or give a start or end year for the 80% comparison, so actually, what the fuck is he talking about? Furthermore, half or more of people in a major american city don't own a car? Maybe, but, doesn't that smell fishy? Has new jersey actually done such an amazing job of otherwise revitalizing their public infrastructure, or is this guy doing what so many other "smarter-than-the-average-politician"s do with statistics? Anyway, where's his information supposed to be coming from? Not for nothing, my experience of installing bike lanes is that people ride bikes first, get upset at the number of incidents and demand change at a local level; demand first, then supply. Not saying it cant happen the other way around, but that simply hasn't been my personal anecdotal experience of american bicycle infrastructure. Also, am I crazy? Doesn't this post give AI once you're looking for it? the emojis? "here's the reality?" What is this bandwagon you have all just jumped aboard?

tl;dr this post is sus and y'all need to practice some fuckin media literacy.