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Bloomberg
17-05-2025
- Bloomberg
Bikers Like Me Should Run Red Lights in NYC Sometimes
New York City police have begun cracking down on bicyclists who run red lights and stop signs and commit other traffic violations, with a sharp increase in tickets issued and also a shift to giving offenders criminal citations that require a court appearance. This is to some extent an understandable reaction to the unsettling new normal of delivery workers and others on electric bikes and scooters zooming down New York streets and bike paths at dangerously high speeds. An overdue reaction, perhaps: Statistics from the NYPD indicate that, as with traffic enforcement in general, bike enforcement activity dipped sharply early in the pandemic and had stayed low until recently.
South China Morning Post
10-05-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Keeta riders in Hong Kong strike over pay reduction and no peak hour subsidies
Riders working for Keeta, a major food delivery platform in Hong Kong, are demanding better payment from the company after staging strikes in two districts on Saturday. Advertisement Dozens of delivery workers, who protested during lunch and dinner hours on Saturday in Tsuen Wan, stated in an open letter that the Meituan-owned platform had reduced their pay per delivered order. 'Since May your platform [has kept] on decreasing the order fee. It is not me, we all Tsuen Wan riders are receiving the orders fee less than HK$38 (US$4) per single order and less than HK$55 per double order in non peak hours,' they wrote in the letter. 'The peak hour order fee we [are] receiving is less than HK$45 per single order and less than HK$65 per double order and including no SUBSIDY provided in the Tsuen Wan area. 'We as all Tsuen Wan motorcycle riders, cyclist and walkers today hold a strike against your unfair decreasing fee and all the sudden change of providing no SUBSIDY in peak hours.' Advertisement Images of the strike posted online showed about 40 delivery workers gathered near Hoi Pa Street in Tsuen Wan, many holding signs criticising Keeta. Some signs read 'STABLE FEE & FAIR PAY' and 'SUBSIDY IN PEAK HOURS'.
