Letters to the Editor — June 24, 2022

The Difficulty: Mayor Adams’ determination to crush 92 confiscated unlawful dust bikes with a bulldozer.

Did you all sleep nicely final night time (“Crushing victory,” June 22)?

Do you all really feel good, protected and safe now that the plant-based mayor destroyed 92 motorbikes?

These automobiles might have been put up for public sale to make cash for town, however he wanted a photo-op to distract everybody’s consideration from his actual issues and failures.

Mayor Adams doesn’t give a rattling about subway crime, smash-and-grab robberies or the widespread open use of unlawful medication on town streets, simply so long as he can strut round and present his swagger at movie star events. It’s Mayor Invoice de Blasio 2.0, people.

Anthony Calabria
Staten Island

I learn the article in The Publish regarding Mayor Adams having 92 dust bikes crushed as a result of they had been being ridden on New York streets illegally.

This feels like he's blaming the dust bikes for legal guidelines which might be being damaged. Does this sound acquainted to anybody? Weapons are additionally blamed for the legal guidelines which might be being damaged with their use.

Doesn’t anybody know that it’s the prison breaking the legal guidelines, not the dust bikes or the weapons? We don’t blame the automobile for the drunk driver.

Mayor Adams, it's essential lock up these law-breakers to maintain us protected and punish the criminals.

Tony McElroy
Rochester

As an alternative of destroying off-road bikes and quads and making a BS spectacle, they may have offered them, with the much-needed funds going to teams primarily based within the areas they had been seized in.

There are many upstate farms that would have used the bikes/quads and would have put them to good use in farm management and workforce help to make life simpler for an trade in hassle.

As soon as once more the dancing, party-time mayor misses the purpose. It appears like he's becoming a member of in on Mayor Putz’s plan of assault. Get out of the excessive life, mayor, and be part of actuality.

Doc Ludemann
Bridgeport, Conn.

Your mayor is a drama queen searching for any photo-op that demonstrates he’s doing one thing, even when it’s not one of many priorities on any New York Metropolis voter’s record.

He’s both as clueless as his predecessor was or he’s getting poor recommendation from aides and staffers.

Operating a bulldozer over these bikes is all present, and promoting the resultant mess for mere scrap is a foolish and pointless assertion.

The bikes aren’t harmful and evil. It’s the morons and clowns who journey them menacingly and flout all legal guidelines that apply to them.

There are out-of-state public sale and salvage corporations that may have purchased and transported them far, distant to be refurbished, offered or cannibalized for components.

The extra cash from such an public sale might have gone towards feeding New York Metropolis’s homeless or another worthwhile trigger.

And eliminating the 92 bikes that method wouldn’t have value the taxpayers a dime.

How a lot did the bulldozer stunt find yourself costing New York Metropolis?

Vincent Ruggiero
Scottsdale, Ariz.

Disgrace on Adams for this ridiculous dog-and-pony present.

Destroying a couple of dust bikes will do nothing to finish the fixed risk of unlawful bikes on New York Metropolis sidewalks and streets.

Pedestrians dwell in countless worry of being mowed down by bicycles and motorized automobiles whose riders ignore all site visitors legal guidelines and don't have any identification and no insurance coverage.

Adams should make it clear that sidewalks are for one factor solely: pedestrians.

Thomas Birnbaum
Manhattan

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