Thread by @ndhapple

OK, let's try this again, since they're transcribed, here are all the answers on bikes and licenses (and they're all kind of basically the same?)

So, two things to watch. There are candidates-- Yang, Garcia, Maya -- who try to thread the motorized versus unmotorized thread; and Adams and Stringer who just talk about bikes and not motorized devices

"I do think we should be licensing e-bikes and any vehicle that can go above a certain speed," said Yang, who nixed the idea of bike licenses when pressed on bicycle riders who "disobey the law."

"I've actually received a ticket on a bicycle and the lack of a plate on the back of it did not to seem to keep this office from issuing me a ticket," Yang shot back.

(Hopefully this quote is typo free this time)

"I think we have to make sure our transportation system is faster and safer -- that does include how we're addressing bikes and particularly motorized scooters and [e]-bikes," said Wiley. When pressed on bike license plates, she says the issue is not bike plates but lanes.

Doesn't rule them in or out for e-bikes/scooters (but seems open-ish to them?)

Garcia: “So for anything that is motorized, bikes, scooter, skateboard, those need to have licenses,”

Marcia pushes on regular bikes, and Garcia says no.

“A license seems a barrier to what we want people to do because biking is the cleanest form of transportation”

Worth noting that Kramer/DuBois do not push either Adams or Stringer on any regulatory differences between powered and unpowered devices,

“Don’t license the bikes because I want to make sure we give high school students a free bike so they can get to school,” says Stringer “I have every intention of being the street mayor.”
“I don’t think a licensing bureaucracy will do us well.”

“No, I wouldn’t license bikes,” said Adams. “Young people particularly in the inner city don’t have the money for license and registration.”

So, in sum, everyone opposes bike plates -- and the three candidates who got the question about e-bikes seemed open to licenses; while the two candidates who didn't, didn't answer it.

And, yes, Bill de Blasio does sometimes wave at this as a possibility when asked by (guess which station!), and he's also done absolutely nothing to push it into reality.

Tweets by a guy whose arm spent a month-plus in a sling last summer because of reckless driver and this town's crappy bike infrastructure

(so, yes, i very much care and very much want it fixed)