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Ped/bike conditions in New York City

The NY Times has an op-ed piece, The City That Never Walks, on conditions in the city for pedestrians and bicyclists.

...here in New York, we even have the debate over bicycle traffic backwards. We focus on drivers’ complaints about the bicycle commuter who races through red lights, rather than on the concerns of the mother biking her child around organic-food delivery trucks that idle in bike-only lanes. In December, the police say, a bicyclist was killed on the Hudson River Greenway by a drunken driver speeding along a bike lane that was completely separated from the road. Asked what was being done to improve safety in light of the biker’s death, Mayor Michael Bloomberg suggested that bikers “pay attention”

posted by Bruce Wright at 8:36 PM #

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