If only someone had said something 🙄 In January, I shared my concerns with colleagues about NJ's sweeping e-bike legislation. We were taking a legitimate public safety issue & imposing sweeping restrictions on bicycles that weren't responsible for the tragedies prompting the legislation. Cycling advocates, small business owners & THOUSANDS of residents objected. More than 8K letters opposing the proposed e-bike restrictions were sent. Sound familiar? (think about the 9.5K objections to NJ's misguided independent contractor rule that whacks over a million legitimate gig workers) HOW MANY MORE TIMES DO LEGISLATORS NEED TO HEAR FROM THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE THAT A LAW IS FLAWED??? On the final e-bike votes, 10 Assembly members voted NO, 18 didn't even vote, and one abstained. In the Senate, 11 voted NO and another two didn't vote. Here's the deal: in the past, NJ had deliberately treated low-speed, pedal-assist e-bikes as bicycles, not motor vehicles. Then we dramatically reversed course, burying ordinary riders in licensing, registration, testing, and MVC paperwork. Who got nailed the hardest? Seniors who use e-bikes to stay mobile, people with disabilities who depend on them for independence & workers who need affordable transportation. Then came the business hit- small bike shops watched sales collapse. And here we are. Sen. Raj Mukherji has introduced S4830 to undo some of the SAME RESTRICTIONS we warned against. If Democrat legislators had listened the first time, there would have been amendments to the bill and we wouldn't need this expensive dance to undo what shouldn't have been done in the first place. Now we're spending more time and taxpayer dollars trying to fix an entirely unforced error. Public safety was ALWAYS the goal. Regulating ordinary bicycles like motor vehicles was never the answer. "A bill in the state Legislature would lift some of the most controversial and restrictive requirements of NJ's new e-bike law by deregulating the slowest low-speed models.": nj.com/advice/2026/01/murphy… Give me a break. @NJAssemblyGOP @NJSenateGOP @NJBIA