NYPD Cracking Down on Brooklyn Bikers
The Brooklyn Paper reports that the NYPD will begin a borough-wide bike crackdown in a few weeks. More moving violations will be issued for the the failure to obey traffic signs and signals, surpassing the speed limit, tailgating, and failure to signal before turning. While the numbers of bicyclists is growing and the bike lanes…
The Brooklyn Paper reports that the NYPD will begin a borough-wide bike crackdown in a few weeks. More moving violations will be issued for the the failure to obey traffic signs and signals, surpassing the speed limit, tailgating, and failure to signal before turning. While the numbers of bicyclists is growing and the bike lanes on Prospect Park West have caused controversy, cops claim the reason for the crackdown is because bike accidents have been up. Some bikers aren’t convinced. Rider Lacy Tauber think cops should “focus on drivers,” while bike advocate Baruch Herzfeld thinks this could further strain the relationship between bikers and cops.
Bikelash! Cops to Crack Down on 2-Wheelers [Brooklyn Paper]
Actually, I did run into visitors here in Brooklyn also. Perhaps they were not visiting YOUR neighborhood. Also, I doubt the visitors you refer to concern themselves with the hipster-hippie nomenclature. As to the smell, I admit that I have not given any of them any special inspections to determine the freshness of their bodily odors. But why the hell would they come to Brooklyn because of the bike lanes???
You were referring to “Brooklyn” not “NY”. No one came to *your* old Brooklyn.
By the way, they’re called “hipsters”, not “hippies”, and they use lots of Kiehls products and don’t smell. Hippies are something different; they’re from the ’60s.
You must not have gotten out very much, furplease. Maybe the smelly, hippie ones you prefer started showing up in greater numbers in the past few years, but there have been no shortage of visitors to NY for a LONG time. I know that I gave help and suggestions to many of them, in French and German, over the years. You really think the visitors are coming over here to ride their bikes???? or to see people riding their bikes????
Morralkan, Don’t kid yourself. The “visitors” only started showing up in the last few years, when the things you don’t like, such as *cyclists*, showed up. They’re not here to see *you* and *your* Brooklyn. You just provide a dash of outer borough “local color.” Which is good only in small amounts, by the way.
i suspect that if bikers taking out their frustration with cars on pedestrians was a rarity instead of the norm, there might be more sympathy for their plight. personally, i hope one of these bitch ass punks gets tazed, beaten with a billy club, and shot in the femur.
If you find Amsterdam awesome, dirty hipster, simple question: Why not move there?
I was born in Brooklyn, grew up here, and would sort of like to die here (not too soon, though). I think our city is pretty good as it is. Judging by the huge number of visitors who come here annually, so do a lot of other Americans and foreigners, probably including a number from Amsterdam.
This is really tiring. The same 4 old trolls making stuff up about cyclists. Why don’t you find a new issue to make sh*t up about in 2011?
Nothing wrong with cracking down on cyclists, but c’mon, we’ve been begging these guys for years to go after the crazy drivers and they’re completely indifferent to the problem.
Didn’t I close this thread? I thought mentioning Park Slope moms was a corollary of Godwin’s law.
Anyway, as to the snow – again, people need to stop and think a little bit. You say the city should have responded better because it wasn’t really such a bad storm, but what if it was twice as bad? What would you do. Forget defending our ridiculous mayor; I’m just saying it takes some real chutzpah to think yourself too privileged to have to prepare for emergencies. My aunt is old and feeble and they didn’t plow her block – you know what she did? She freaking stayed inside where it was warm and comfortable! She had the foresight to have a few days of food and medicine stocked in her apartment!
You’d rather be foolishly unprepared, just to have to right to yell at the mayor afterwards? That doesn’t make much sense. You rely on your car, and couldn’t drive it? Simpel answer: don’t go to work. Don’t go to school. Fact is, nobody got fired for missing work last. The snow wasn’t the end of the world, except for people who didn’t prepared for it even though they had advance warning.
Sheesh.