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Re: City Cracks Down on Bike Couriers--pedestrian killed in Manhattan

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From: Peter Schleifer
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 00:00
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Marc wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 30 Nov 1997 06:41:30 -0500, bob@1776.COM (Robert
> Coe) wrote:
> 
> >That may be true in the downtown areas of a few major cities (Boston, NY, SF,
> >...).  But outside those areas, the overwhelming majority of unsafe bikers are
> >male kids between 12 and 20 years old.
> >--
> 
> what is the poin? the law is being broken, who is doing the
> law breaking has no relevance, whether the rider is 10 years
> old of 40 years old people are being injured.

It is relevant, since in NY anyone under 14 may legally ride on the
sidewalk.

--
Peter Schleifer
RTTD - UBS Securities NY
"It's just my 19th nervous breakdown"
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From: Peter Schleifer <Peter.Schleifer@ny.ubs.com>
Subject: Re: City Cracks Down on Bike Couriers--pedestrian killed in Manhattan
Date: 1997/11/30
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