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Senate Votes to Require Delivery Apps to Provide Insurance for Workers
Speed limits are fine, but what will really help crash victims is insurance.
Now Do Cars: Adams and Council Push For E-Bike Speed Limits Ignores The Biggest Danger
The signs show that the city's priorities are completely backwards.
Anatomy Of A Debacle: How Mayor Adams Went From Visionary to Bully on E-Bikes
How did we get here? Let's breakdown how the city's failure to rein in the delivery industry created the current war on bikes.
Leadership Vacuum: Delivery Workers Oppose Hochul’s E-Bike Plan as Adams Goes AWOL
Advocates and delivery workers are against new proposals from the Governor to regulate e-bikes, so what's going on with city hall's leaked plan to keep the industry in check?
Deep Dive: City Hall Offers Glimpse of Draft Plan To Regulate Delivery Apps
The Adams Administration revealed its plans to regulate delivery app companies. Here's how it would affect the major stakeholders — and you.
Thursday’s Headlines: ‘Sustainable Delivery’ Edition
The Adams administration takes a step forward on reining in the delivery app industry. Plus other news.
How an Ex-Delivery Worker Upended NYC’s Streets
Ou Zhou, a former delivery worker who founded Fly E-Bike, has hit it big selling fast, low-cost electric bikes and mopeds to delivery workers, transforming New York City streets in the process. But with concerns growing about fires from lithium-ion batteries and more scrutiny on the way, can his electric empire survive? Co-published today with Curbed.
Q&A: Whizz CEO Has Lessons For E-Bike Regulation
Company CEO Mike Peregudov sits down with Streetsblog to talk about his industry and why putting license plates on e-bikes is a non-starter.
Astro-Turf: Industry Group Says Fair Pay For Delivery Workers Means Higher Grocery Prices
An app industry-supported group is trying to sway the conversation around expanding the delivery worker minimum wage.
The ‘Instacart Loophole’: Council Seeks To Expand Minimum Wage to Grocery Deliveristas
City pols want to close a loophole that is allowing grocery delivery app companies like Instacart to get around paying their workers the deliverista minimum.
