As the car has increasingly become demonized in our urban culture, policymakers seem fixated on a romantic vision of bicycles as our transportation alternative of the future, irrespective of the havoc being visited upon our streets by two-wheeled dimwits. I have no problem with bicycles per se. Nor is there any reason why they shouldn’t be accommodated as a recreational outlet, let alone as a subset of the greater transportation picture. However, in their zeal for cycling, Mayor Bloomberg and city Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan have encouraged entitled Lance Armstrong types to run red lights, emerge bassackwards without warning down one-way streets, traverse sidewalks as the spirit moves them and generally behave as though the laws of time and space don’t apply. Even the city’s elite are part of this two-wheeled madness: In the first week of August, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, filming an action sequence on city streets, plowed into the back of a taxi, shattering its rear window. Speaking of cabs: I drove one myself, and often witnessed the recklessness of some of my colleagues. But when we drive poorly, we get tickets from the cops (as any errant driver should). But the widespread bad behavior of bikers, on… Read full this story
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