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

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From: Ed Ravin
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 00:00
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From somewhere in cyberspace, vjp2@dorsai.org @smtp.dorsai.org (Vasos Panagiotopoulos +1-917-287-8087 Bioengineer-Financier) said:
>	It's commercial (not commuter or residential) bike traffic
>that's basically behaving like they can get away with breaking the
>law. If you required them to have licence plates, maybe they wouldn't
>feel they can get away with it.

Commercial bicyclists in NY City are already required by law (for the past
ten years or so) to display their employers' name and an ID number on their
bicycle, to keep a logbook of trips, and to register with the police.
According to Transportation Alternatives, they know of NO company that
employs commercial bicyclists that complies with this law.  Obviously,
the NYPD doesn't feel it is worth their while to enforce it.
-- 
Ed Ravin        |If I were not a little mad and generally silly
eravin@panix.com|I should give you my advice upon the subject, willy-nilly;
                |I should show you in a moment how to grapple with the question
                |And you'd really be astonished at the force of my suggestion.
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From: eravin@panix.com (Ed Ravin)
Subject: Re: City Cracks Down on Bike Couriers--pedestrian killed in Manhattan
Date: 1997/11/26
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