Of course it takes two to tangle. But the only thing that should really matter here is that a cab driver, licensed by the city… purposefully used his cab as a weapon and slammed into a pedicab. How does anything–honking, fighting, coffee throwing, garbage can throwing–compare to that?! This man should not be driving. And…
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Because only 10 percent of car/bike collisions are caused by bikes.
Kind of a no-brainer. But usually, the driver isn’t even charged! Part of the problem is that it’s not exactly clear what crime is committed when a car jumps the curb and mows down innocent people. Here’s the answer: make driving on the sidewalk an arrestable offense. It’s not something you have to arrest a…
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The cop who assaulted the bicyclist by pushing him over in Times Square during Critical Mass has been canned. The New York Times reports: A police officer who was videotaped knocking a man off his bicycle and onto the ground during a cycling event in Manhattan last summer has been fired, the Police Department said.…
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“The driver of the van, identified as Chao Fu, 52, of Brooklyn, was not charged.” They never are. Here’s the story in the Times.
I’m happy to write this before I have real reason to. I didn’t get hit. Nobody is hurt. I thought of this while biking past the ghost bike at McGuiness Blvd and Kent St for Liz Byrne. I biked to Flatbush Ave in Brooklyn and was thinking how nice it is, once you get out…
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Five months after the video of the assault, charges against the police officer are coming. Here’s the report from Cop in the Hood. And the Times.
The story in the Times.
Randy Cohen, the Ethicist, is our friend. Trust me on this one. In Sunday’s New York Times he writes: From my narrow, crackpot’s point of view (my favorite), the real harm here is not to you but to the many tens of thousands of New York City cyclists. This fellow promulgates the canard of the…
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If you have information, please leave a comment. People need to know. Especially about funeral arrangements and such things. Was the driver drunk? Was the man a excellent pan flute player (not my favorite instrument… but now that’s not really the issue here, is it)? Did he run a red light? Who knows? Does it…
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