[lolinder]

I'm not buying this. Bikers in bike lanes are not where I've felt threatened by bikes in NYC: they're in a dedicated lane and it's easy for me to check, cross, and get out of their way. Where I feel threatened by bikes is on narrow city streets with no bike lanes.

On narrow one-way roads with street parking, cars tend to go quite slowly and look out carefully for pedestrians coming out from between cars. At a stop sign you can check left and right, cross, and expect that cars will see you and stop even if they were for some reason planning on running the sign. It's even possible to safely jaywalk in most cases because the cars are going slowly enough that you can see them, judge their speeds, and cross before they reach you.

E-bikes as a rule do not behave that way on narrow roads. They will drive much faster than is safe (presumably because the road feels less narrow to them relatively) and end up outrunning their visibility and yours. I've never come close to being hit by a car in Brooklyn, but there have been numerous close calls with bikes, and they've all been on narrow roads with street parking where I was attempting to cross at a stop sign which the bike ran.