After what has seemed like years of New York City circling the drain due to crime, Mayor Eric Adams (D) responded by writing a scathing review of mopeds and scooters.
In an op-ed in Caribbean Life, the mayor said New Yorkers have "strong feelings" toward the vehicles, which they've seen driving the wrong way down streets, leaving seniors scared and pedestrians "terrorized."
Every day, the mayor claimed, residents are dreading the sound of modified mopeds driving down the streets and possibly crashing into them.
Worse, the vehicles are being used in violent and heinous crimes, the mayor wrote. Unregistered dirt bikes, mopeds, and scooters are involved in cellphone snatches and wallet theft and are used as getaway vehicles after shootings and robberies.