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

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From: Robert Coe
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 00:00

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On Wed, 26 Nov 1997 13:57:16 -0600, Ken Kifer <kenkifer@simplecom.net> wrote:
: Vasos Panagiotopoulos (Bioengineer-Financier) wrote:
: >         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.
:  
: This requirement, I assume, means that every motorist will have to
: dismount before crossing the avenues also?

No, of course not.  All that would be required of a motorist is to have
someone walking fifty feet ahead of the car, swinging a lantern.
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From: bob@1776.COM (Robert Coe)
Subject: Re: City Cracks Down on Bike Couriers--pedestrian killed in Manhattan
Date: 1997/11/30
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