CLARIFYING BIKE COMPLAINTS

• bob

  I love how these supposed “pedestrian advocates” harp on and on about bicycle licensing and such (ineffective and ridiculous as that would be), while blithely ignoring the elephant in the room. Who kills hundreds of people on foot and bike each year in NYC? Who maims thousands of others? Who gives us cancers of all kinds, heart disease, hypertension and asthma? Who destroys the livability of our neighborhoods? Who pumps massive quantities of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere? Who twists foreign policy and funds terrorists?

  I’ll give you a hint, Ms. Abraham, it’s not people riding bikes. It seems that you are one of the victims of our car culture, so battered and victimized by it that you blame your allies (people who ride bikes), rather than your common enemy.

  So, with your new-found perspective, I might suggest a more productive avocation in the future.

• nycyclist

  Yes, by all means, let’s add a huge layer of bureaucracy that would make riding a bike a burden! Under a licensing scheme, would my daughter need a learners’ permit to ride her Big Wheel?

• Sam Katz

  Regardless of the comments here, reckless bicycle riding remains the number one complaint to the police by people on the upper west side. When bike riders comply with the law they will earn the respect of pedestrians, but until that time comes, some of us will continue to pursue the possibility of licenses and other forms of identification on bikes. I believe it is only the completely irresponsible bike riders who mock these viable solutions to the pedestrian complaints. While we all recognize that cars are a serious problem, it does not detract from the other problems that reckless bike riders pose. I am sure anyone’s little daughter could recite that “two wrongs don’t make a right.”

  Sam Katz
  President
  20 Precinct Community Council

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