According to latest NY Post story on NYPD crackdown on cyclists, police have issued 1,000 tickets to cyclists in the last TWO WEEKS. “Sources said that lawbreaking by cyclists has become the top quality-of-life complaint in some neighborhoods.”
Meanwhile, on the Upper East Side today: 35-Year-Old Woman Killed by Dump Truck.
Unbelievable.
I’m quoted in this write-up along with @bikeblognyc & @brooklynbybike! #bikenyc
Via DC Streetsblog:
“Giffords herself rides a custom-made bike with her name in western-style rope on the top tube and an Arizona flag. A member of the Congressional Bike Caucus, she bike commutes to the Capitol from her home in Washington.
She admits ‘she’ll yell at motorists who pull out in front of her or cut her off when she is on her bike and but says most of the time they don’t mean to do it, they are in their own world and aren’t looking for cyclists,’ according to Tucson Velo.”
NYers do too!
(via BikeBlogNYC)
I personally don’t really care that the Henry Street bike lane is going to be blocked for 2.5 hours every Sunday. That’s not really going to affect my life too much. I can deal with riding down the center of the street for a few blocks if I happen to pedal by at that time.
What bothers me is the precedent that this might set. I can only assume precincts in other parts of the city are going to start hearing requests for similar rule-bending now.
And what will their answer be?
Only now just now stumbled upon this great post by Andrew Leonard of Salon.com. Made me smile on a day a had a minor bike crash on my way home from work…
And the cops made an arrest! Everything about this just made me smile…
(Found via this tweet from @jeremysomething with #bikenyc hastag)
