The city’s Transportation Department reports bike deaths are at a 23-year high.

According to data, 30 deaths in total, with 23 of those deaths people riding e-bikes and seven people were on traditional bikes.

Kyle Calhoun rides every day to work on an e-bike and said whether someone is on an e-bike or traditional bike, there is a learning curve to ride in the city being alongside the cars.

“You have to know what you’re doing when you get on them,” Calhoun said.

He has some critiques for the city’s bike infrastructure.

“I think the city is very bike unfriendly unfortunately where it seems like the car culture is really most important where everyone is more concerned about parking, instead of safe bike lanes,” Calhoun said.

Sara Lind agrees with Calhoun that there need to have more protected bike lanes.

“We’ve seen bike usage go up in the city, very high usage right now, and I think the infrastructure just hasn’t caught up,” Sara Lind, co-executive director for Open Plans, an organization to transform the way people use street space, said.

The organization Transportation Alternatives said the majority of where we’re people killed last year by cars on the street there wasn’t any bike infrastructure.

Elizabeth Adams, deputy executive director of public affairs for Transportation Alternatives, gave an example of a tragedy that killed a cyclist last week in Brooklyn.

“Someone was killed while riding their bike on a street with no protected bike lane and the car driver opened their door and slammed the person into traffic,” she said.

A cyclist who NY1 spoke with said they understand the need for more protected bike lanes but also emphasized it is challenging for drivers.

“It’s tough because I also drive in the city and widening the lanes to me may mean there [is] more congestion on the roads,” Siever Oconoraoki said.

The DOT said it installed more than 30 miles of protected bike lanes last year.