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Article #76Re: City Cracks Down on Bike Couriers--pedestrian killed in Manhattan
From: Christopher Zguris
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 00:00
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On Mon, 01 Dec 1997 13:47:45 +0000, "Jason R. DeCesare" <miles722@erols.com> wrote: >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! Looking at the NYS DMV Drivers Manual, Revised June 1993, there's no mention of bike lanes. Perhaps it should be made clear to taxi's and other motorists that it is illegal to block the bike lane. Christopher Zguris, czguris@interport.net http://www.users.interport.net/~czguris
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10e08b,e25c541ab8c60ca7 X-Google-Attributes: gid10e08b,public X-Google-Thread: fd3ff,e25c541ab8c60ca7 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd3ff,public X-Google-Thread: 112ce4,e25c541ab8c60ca7 X-Google-Attributes: gid112ce4,public X-Google-Thread: 108dbe,e25c541ab8c60ca7 X-Google-Attributes: gid108dbe,public X-Google-Thread: 100284,e25c541ab8c60ca7 X-Google-Attributes: gid100284,public From: czguris@interport.net (Christopher Zguris) Subject: Re: City Cracks Down on Bike Couriers--pedestrian killed in Manhattan Date: 1997/12/01 Message-ID: <3487402b.6927580@news.interport.net> X-Deja-AN: 294289871 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> <65h0pu$9uk@snews2.zippo.com> <3482C001.628B@erols.com> Organization: Interport Communications Corp. Reply-To: czguris@interport.net Newsgroups: ne.transportation,misc.transport.misc,rec.bicycles.soc,ba.transportation,nyc.transit