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Media Coverage of NYC's Anti-Bike Bill
=v= The papers have found out about this bill.
_Newsday_: Bronx pol pushes for mandatory bike licenses: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ne...,2976740.story "When I was a kid, I had a license plate on my bike. I'm trying to remember which cereal box I got it from." _Daily_News_: Pol rolling out Council bill to license bikes: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/loca...p-217382c.html "Pedal pushers think her chain has slipped." =v= Some folks on these lists have mentioned Critical Mass in relation to this bill, but this has not come up in the news coverage. The person filing the bill doesn't mention it at all in these articles. Even _am_New_York_, a free tabloid which, at the behest of the NYPD's PR department, wrote a front page editorial screed against Critical Mass, didn't mention it. _Jym_ |
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=v= Today the _New_York_Daily_News_ ran an editorial against the
proposed bike-licensing bill (scroll down to the middle): http://www.nydailynews.com/news/idea...p-217586c.html Yesterday, though, they ran an Op-Ed piece that I missed. It wasn't about the bike-licensing bill, but about The Bicycle Menace: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/idea...p-217248c.html =v= It's a bizarre piece that tells us not to worry about toxins in the environment but about "real" risks: bicycles. This in a newspaper with almost daily headlines about cars running over children and nuns (all ending with the words, "the driver wasn't charged"). I googled the author's name and organization, and lo and behold, it's one of those anti-environmental junk science outfits! _Jym_ |
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Jym Dyer wrote:
=v= The papers have found out about this bill. _Newsday_: Bronx pol pushes for mandatory bike licenses: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ne...,2976740.story "When I was a kid, I had a license plate on my bike. I'm trying to remember which cereal box I got it from." _Daily_News_: Pol rolling out Council bill to license bikes: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/loca...p-217382c.html "Pedal pushers think her chain has slipped." =v= Some folks on these lists have mentioned Critical Mass in relation to this bill, but this has not come up in the news coverage. The person filing the bill doesn't mention it at all in these articles. Even _am_New_York_, a free tabloid which, at the behest of the NYPD's PR department, wrote a front page editorial screed against Critical Mass, didn't mention it. _Jym_ Jym, what are you quoting and what are you posting?!? (And it's not even an AOHell issue!) -- BS (no, really) |
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Jym Dyer wrote:
Yesterday, though, they ran an Op-Ed piece that I missed. It wasn't about the bike-licensing bill, but about The Bicycle Menace: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/idea...p-217248c.html =v= It's a bizarre piece that tells us not to worry about toxins in the environment but about "real" risks: bicycles. My guess is that she got sideswiped by an errant bike messenger. -- Mike Kruger If you fall and break your leg, don't come running to me. |
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/idea...p-217248c.html
My guess is that she got sideswiped by an errant bike messenger. =v= She does mention bikers "on delivery missions," but these are not necessarily messengers. Bike messengers in NYC are quite skilled, stay out in the streets, and are not known for sideswiping pedestrians. Please don't spread untrue stereotypes about them. =v= There is another variety of delivery biker in NYC, though, that generates most of the complaints: the ones who deliver food. Some of them ride clunky (sometimes stolen) bikes on sidewalks and do indeed pose a problem for pedestrians. I've cursed a number of them myself. =v= The distinction is an important one to make, because the City of New York keeps blurring them. Every now and then there's a case where a food delivery biker hits a pedestrian on the sidewalk, and the City cracks down on messengers, instead. =v= Also, as discussed in other threads, the author of that op-ed heads one of those industry-funded anti-environmentalist junk science groups. So she's got delusions quite outside the realm of bike-bashing. _Jym_ |
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