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Article #59Re: City Cracks Down on Bike Couriers--pedestrian killed in Manhattan
From: vjp2 Vasos Panagiotopoulos 1-917...
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 00:00
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Both because of statutory neglect, and also because they have
derived their habits elsewhere (in many cases, places where traffic
will not be stopped just because of a fatality), the offending
motorists AND cyclists have not gotten the message stongly enough -
both at the gating/licensing and the enforcement levels - in many
cases the message has been deliberately vague because public officials
have inadvertantly spoken out of both sides of their mouths and indeed
seek to similtaneously enforce idealistically admirable but
practically inconsistent goals. This is absolutely NOT to say that
anyone is inherently an offender, but just to say that the message has
not been clear or realistic enough against the force of habit.
I just thought of something - in Manhattan, why not take a
page from the street vendor rules and only allow cycling on side
(east-west) streets and just plainly require EVERYBODY to dismount on
the Avenues except for the really wide avenues.
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Vasos-Peter John Panagiotopoulos II, Columbia'81+, Bioengineer-Financier, NYC
BachMozart ReaganQuayle EvrytanoKastorian http://WWW.Dorsai.Org/~vjp2
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd3ff,e25c541ab8c60ca7 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd3ff,public X-Google-Thread: 112ce4,e25c541ab8c60ca7 X-Google-Attributes: gid112ce4,public X-Google-Thread: 10e08b,e25c541ab8c60ca7 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e08b,public X-Google-Thread: 108dbe,e25c541ab8c60ca7 X-Google-Attributes: gid108dbe,public X-Google-Thread: 100284,e25c541ab8c60ca7 X-Google-Attributes: gid100284,public From: vjp2@dorsai.org @smtp.dorsai.org (Vasos Panagiotopoulos +1-917-287-8087 Bioengineer-Financier) Subject: Re: City Cracks Down on Bike Couriers--pedestrian killed in Manhattan Date: 1997/11/26 Message-ID: <65h0pu$9uk@snews2.zippo.com> X-Deja-AN: 292902521 References: <971116075308_1482191885@mrin86.mail.aol.com> <3474661d.1097239@nntp.best.ix.netcom.com> <6523fd$8kl$1@news2.alpha.net> <653b6u$4li$1@news.ncal.verio.com> <petrichEK6vnq.9tu@netcom.com> Followup-To: ne.transportation,misc.transport.misc,rec.bicycles.soc,ba.transportation,nyc.transit X-URL: http://www.dorsai.org/~vjp2 Mail-Copies-To: vjp2@dorsai.org, vjp2@compuserve.com, vjp2@mcimail.com X-Disclaim: Nothing herein constitutes advice; everything fully disclaimed. Organization: Samani Marions Panyaught NYC-11357-3436-287-USA Newsgroups: ne.transportation,misc.transport.misc,rec.bicycles.soc,ba.transportation,nyc.transit