On Wednesday, July 10, 2019 at 10:14:15 AM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On Wednesday, July 10, 2019 at 12:29:23 PM UTC-4, AMuzi wrote:
https://nypost.com/video/angry-biker...matic-protest/
Includes (predictably) editorial snark about hats
Interesting data point in that video: Last year 111 pedestrians were killed, a
4.7% increase. As always, that's _far_ above the number of dead cyclists.
But they somehow neglected to say about the peds, "Many without helmets."
Vaguely related: Yesterday Streetsblog (IIRC) posted a rabble rousing rant about
"Police using deadly force." Most of the commenters seemed to want every police
officer hung.
I gather there is some problem with police attitude toward NYC bicyclists - as
in, when a cyclist is killed (say, from a right hook crash with an irresponsibly
driven truck) the NYC cops respond by ticketing only cyclists, even if the
dead cyclist broke no law. That's wrong, IMO.
But the Streetsblog event was different. A guy on a bikeshare bike crashed red
light after red light, ignoring the cop following in a cruiser order him to stop
the bike. The biker kept looking back at the cop, but riding on, through light after light.
The cop finally cut into the bike lane ahead of the rider and stopped. The biker
ran into the cop car. Streetsglob called that "Deadly force."
Apparently, they wanted instead for the cop to share donuts with the jerk on the
bike. Apparently, no bicyclist should ever be asked to obey a traffic law..
A lot of bicycle advocacy is absolutely nuts these days.
- Frank Krygowski
The police have a problem with many San Francisco bike commuters as well. In general they are a rather rule-less class and going the wrong way on one way streets is common enough. They have added bicycle and bus streets only. This doesn't seem to stop the cars using them or the bikes not using them.
It isn't clear about how common bicycle commuters are in New York because of the horrible weather, but in San Francisco it is getting a whole lot more common since you can park a dozen bikes in one car parking spot.