To the Editor: The increase in electric-powered bikes around the city has greatly increased the danger to pedestrians. While officially not legal, few of these bikes are confiscated, and the few $500 summonses issued by police officers hardly make a dent in the proliferation of the electric bikes that can go up to 30 miles an hour.
The biggest danger of these bikes, even in the bike lanes, is that they are silent and there is no audible warning to someone who steps off a curb into a bike lane. The elderly and little kids are most in danger from these bikes.
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