April 18, 2025 • 5 mins
Mendte in the Morning sent Natalie Migliore out on the street to talk about the new bike traffic lights installed to attempt to curb bike accidents.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now it's sevent ten wars Beat on the Street with
Natalie Miglioroi.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
In a city that recently has had a slew of
stupid ideas, this may be the dumbest one. Street lights
a little bit lower at eye level, specifically for bikers,
as if that's going to stop them from running into us.
What a New Yorkers think about this? I told you
(00:29):
what I think. Let's get the latest from Natalie Migliori
in her Beat on the Street.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah, good morning, Larry. We should call it Beat on
the Bike this morning. Now, I didn't get on the bike,
I was on the street. Pretty soon bike lists won't
be able to say they didn't see the traffic light
because the Department of Transportation is starting to install miniature
traffic lights for bike leans across the city. I say
miniature because they're smaller than a traffic light, and like
(00:59):
you said, already said, just about five feet above the ground,
about eye level with bicycle riders. So what do people think?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
That don't work? You got one for a bike stop,
one fifty seven for eight, they're gonna stop for that?
They keep going, so, I mean I can't stand them.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
So they don't even follow the lights for the bicycle now,
so I doubt they're gonna follow the rules.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
I mean they have the same lights already up there.
I mean they do a bide by that. I haven't
seen anybody cross those lights. I mean, well sometimes they do,
I don't think. So this is New York.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Nothing will work.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
For the bikes. They will be a scourge on this
city for the next twenty five years and there's nothing
the city's gonna do about.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
It, not even the lights. But the first one isn't
ready up and running on sixty ninth Street and Third
Avenue and Officiency. The plan is to put more up
across the city, but a lot of people say that's
not enough, especially for drivers.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
There's gotta be some new laws enacted, some new ordinances
enacted to curb what's going on with these bikes right now,
because they're flying. You know, you step off a curb,
you're taking your life into your hands.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
The bicycles don't follow the rules. The constantly jumping in
front of the truck. We're constantly hitting on our brakes
and becoming very dangerous.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
They don't stay in their lane. They have a lane,
they don't stay in it. Pretty much like we made
a whole lane for you, and you you don't even
stay in it.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
It's dangerous for them too though, you know, because some
drivers are reckless and they don't care if they hit somebody,
you know, So it's for their safety too, right.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I mean a lot of bicycles weaving in and out
of traffic on New York City streets. I've seen it myself,
and forget even weaving in and out of traffic and
not staying in bike lanes, getting up on sidewalks sometimes
and going really fast past pedestrians. There are rules for
cyclists in New York City, both eat bikes and regular bikes,
(02:52):
but there is no ticketing system. Drivers say there needs
to be some form of monetary enforcement that will keep
these cyclings.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
In check, or they should have a scale down version
of what someone driving a car would get for a
traffic violation. They shouldn't have the same violations we have,
but a scale down version.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
This shit. It's not fair for us. I mean, we
got we got tickets all the time, and they never
have to face any like ticketing or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
So like how they go out hard on cars with traffic,
you move, you know, police, you get tickets they should
do the same thing for bicycles. They don't do that.
So and then you talking about the city lose money.
Y'all lose money because y'all don't do the right thing.
Y'all bother the dumb stuff instead of getting the real stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, so he said, pay attention to the bicycles instead
of I don't know anything else that you might things
a little fluff around the city here now, pedestrians and
drivers are all too familiar with what can go wrong
while sharing the road with bikes, Them.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Speeding bikes, them them things with them little engine loom
things they got, the little electric they move fast. That's
like we're getting hit by a car thirty miles now
with twenty miles an hour at they speed. They're not stop.
They don't care. There's too many out here.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
I've had a bike run up the wrong way, hit
me head on, right in the middle of my hood,
go up over my hood and down the back and
apologize to me because he knew what he was doing.
He knew he was going down the street the wrong way,
he knew he was flying. And you just got up
apologizing left.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
But this is crazy.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I can't believe you apologize to that yeah, instead of
just getting up and going. I wonder what the damage
was on that guy's car. He didn't say like, oh,
my whole hood was mashed in. But when a bike
comes over and rolls over the head of your car.
But you know, Larry, there's no insurance for these bikers,
so it just kind of there's no way or system
(04:43):
of keeping them in check or you know, understanding their history.
I wouldn't want to say they're driving history, but their
biking history. So people not so convinced that these lights
will work. And if people will actually blow past them
or stay there and wait for the bike to change.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
The use flash. They're not gonna work. They don't work.
They've already tested them. They're not working at all, they say,
Now people will get used to them. No, they're not.
They're ignoring the lights. They see the lights, they see them,
they just ignore them until they crack down on bikers.
This isn't gonna change. But they're not going to because
this entire city is anti car. That's the problem. Thanks
(05:25):
so much. Natalie Miglioi is gonna be back Monday morning
because she's gonna have a great weekend. At eight point
fifty
Now it's sevent ten wars Beat on the Street with
Natalie Miglioroi.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
In a city that recently has had a slew of
stupid ideas, this may be the dumbest one. Street lights
a little bit lower at eye level, specifically for bikers,
as if that's going to stop them from running into us.
What a New Yorkers think about this? I told you
(00:29):
what I think. Let's get the latest from Natalie Migliori
in her Beat on the Street.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Yeah, good morning, Larry. We should call it Beat on
the Bike this morning. Now, I didn't get on the bike,
I was on the street. Pretty soon bike lists won't
be able to say they didn't see the traffic light
because the Department of Transportation is starting to install miniature
traffic lights for bike leans across the city. I say
miniature because they're smaller than a traffic light, and like
(00:59):
you said, already said, just about five feet above the ground,
about eye level with bicycle riders. So what do people think?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
That don't work? You got one for a bike stop,
one fifty seven for eight, they're gonna stop for that?
They keep going, so, I mean I can't stand them.
Speaker 5 (01:17):
So they don't even follow the lights for the bicycle now,
so I doubt they're gonna follow the rules.
Speaker 6 (01:22):
I mean they have the same lights already up there.
I mean they do a bide by that. I haven't
seen anybody cross those lights. I mean, well sometimes they do,
I don't think. So this is New York.
Speaker 5 (01:31):
Nothing will work.
Speaker 1 (01:32):
For the bikes. They will be a scourge on this
city for the next twenty five years and there's nothing
the city's gonna do about.
Speaker 3 (01:39):
It, not even the lights. But the first one isn't
ready up and running on sixty ninth Street and Third
Avenue and Officiency. The plan is to put more up
across the city, but a lot of people say that's
not enough, especially for drivers.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
There's gotta be some new laws enacted, some new ordinances
enacted to curb what's going on with these bikes right now,
because they're flying. You know, you step off a curb,
you're taking your life into your hands.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
The bicycles don't follow the rules. The constantly jumping in
front of the truck. We're constantly hitting on our brakes
and becoming very dangerous.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
They don't stay in their lane. They have a lane,
they don't stay in it. Pretty much like we made
a whole lane for you, and you you don't even
stay in it.
Speaker 7 (02:22):
It's dangerous for them too though, you know, because some
drivers are reckless and they don't care if they hit somebody,
you know, So it's for their safety too, right.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
I mean a lot of bicycles weaving in and out
of traffic on New York City streets. I've seen it myself,
and forget even weaving in and out of traffic and
not staying in bike lanes, getting up on sidewalks sometimes
and going really fast past pedestrians. There are rules for
cyclists in New York City, both eat bikes and regular bikes,
(02:52):
but there is no ticketing system. Drivers say there needs
to be some form of monetary enforcement that will keep
these cyclings.
Speaker 6 (03:00):
In check, or they should have a scale down version
of what someone driving a car would get for a
traffic violation. They shouldn't have the same violations we have,
but a scale down version.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
This shit. It's not fair for us. I mean, we
got we got tickets all the time, and they never
have to face any like ticketing or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
So like how they go out hard on cars with traffic,
you move, you know, police, you get tickets they should
do the same thing for bicycles. They don't do that.
So and then you talking about the city lose money.
Y'all lose money because y'all don't do the right thing.
Y'all bother the dumb stuff instead of getting the real stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Yeah, so he said, pay attention to the bicycles instead
of I don't know anything else that you might things
a little fluff around the city here now, pedestrians and
drivers are all too familiar with what can go wrong
while sharing the road with bikes, Them.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Speeding bikes, them them things with them little engine loom
things they got, the little electric they move fast. That's
like we're getting hit by a car thirty miles now
with twenty miles an hour at they speed. They're not stop.
They don't care. There's too many out here.
Speaker 8 (04:01):
I've had a bike run up the wrong way, hit
me head on, right in the middle of my hood,
go up over my hood and down the back and
apologize to me because he knew what he was doing.
He knew he was going down the street the wrong way,
he knew he was flying. And you just got up
apologizing left.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
But this is crazy.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
I can't believe you apologize to that yeah, instead of
just getting up and going. I wonder what the damage
was on that guy's car. He didn't say like, oh,
my whole hood was mashed in. But when a bike
comes over and rolls over the head of your car.
But you know, Larry, there's no insurance for these bikers,
so it just kind of there's no way or system
(04:43):
of keeping them in check or you know, understanding their history.
I wouldn't want to say they're driving history, but their
biking history. So people not so convinced that these lights
will work. And if people will actually blow past them
or stay there and wait for the bike to change.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
The use flash. They're not gonna work. They don't work.
They've already tested them. They're not working at all, they say,
Now people will get used to them. No, they're not.
They're ignoring the lights. They see the lights, they see them,
they just ignore them until they crack down on bikers.
This isn't gonna change. But they're not going to because
this entire city is anti car. That's the problem. Thanks
(05:25):
so much. Natalie Miglioi is gonna be back Monday morning
because she's gonna have a great weekend. At eight point
fifty
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