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Vasos Panagiotopoulos +1-917-287-8087 Bioengineer-Financier
wrote/�crivit:
> 
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>         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.

And when was the last time you bicycled in the city?
(Lower Manhattan is quite nice on a summer Sunday. Plus riding over the
Brooklyn Bridge is quite nice as well.)
In Manhattan, the east-west streets are the ones that are usually
smaller, save for streets like 72nd, 34th, and 23rd, so they are the
ones that it is more difficult to ride on. Anyhow, the uptown-downtown
mobility, provided by the avenues, is proabably more important than the
crosstown mobility.

If cyclists stay within the law, see
http://www.dot.state.ny.us/bicycle/share.html for the NYS law on bikes,
there is no problem. It is just that the automobilists (and sometimes
pedestrians) don't follow the law and the cyclist is put in to a
position of danger. Don't get me started on automobilists who violate
bike lanes (lets just say most of them drive yellow vehicles).
Perhaps the state needs to license cyclists to weed out the bad apples.
Ignorance of the law is no defense!

-Jason

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"We're one of the few countries that has an illiteracy problem with
 satire." -documentary filmmaker Michael Moore,
 quoted in The New York Times, 14 Nov. 1997