NEWSDAY\City riding hard on cyclers' freedom

=v= Dang, here's a really good op-ed piece by Charles Komanoff:

http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/...,7769998.story

It starts like this:

| My wife and kids spent Purim at a Greenwich Village synagogue.
| I celebrated the holiday in a sausage joint near Union Square,
| hiding from the police.
|
| Just outside my one-man shul, on 17th Street, dozens of
| bicyclists were being arrested for riding without a permit,
| in what the cops call a "procession."

and ends like this:

| The media describe Critical Mass as a protest against cars
| and petroleum, and so it is. But more importantly, like Purim,
| it's about freedom: a once-a-month chance to escape from the
| metal cage and get around under your own power.
|
| And freedom, as we all know, has many foes.

_Jym_