"The Hunter College study examined 155 intersections during a three week period in Dec. 2025, when a team of 56 researchers observed individuals using anything that's not a car to get around: bikes, e-bikes, mopeds and scooters. The researchers looked at the type of vehicles they used and how street design affected their behavior. "Our results indicated that any implication that delivery workers are less safe than non-commercial riders is misplaced," the study authors concluded. Fifty-eight percent of recreational riders disobeyed a red light."
""When you think it through, it becomes less surprising," he said. "It does stand to reason that deliveristas would be more cautious in their riding. They have more at stake, and they're professionals, they're getting a lot more hours engaged in micromobility riding. And I'm sure that they don't relish the idea of getting into an accident and losing their means of making a living.""
Observers recorded behavior of more than 1,700 micromobility users at 155 intersections over three weeks in December 2025, including bikes, e-bikes, mopeds and scooters. Delivery workers comprised about 40 percent of observed riders. Recreational riders disobeyed red lights 58 percent of the time; delivery workers fully waited 55 percent, stopped and proceeded 27 percent, and ran red lights at speed 18 percent. Delivery riders were generally more cautious, reflecting greater stakes, professional exposure, and the risk of losing income from accidents. City policy changes included a 15 mph e-bike speed limit and orders for criminal summonses to cyclists.
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