Re: Cycling and social policy

On Sat, 31 May 2025 21:19:45 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

On 5/31/2025 11:10 AM, AMuzi wrote:

https://nypost.com/2025/05/30/opinion/lefties-pro-migrant-push-back-on-
tischs-e-bike-crackdown-is-obscene/

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The New York Post trades heavily in sensationalism and political
divisiveness.
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Here was the main point in the New York Times article I linked on this
issue: "Cyclists who blow through red lights without endangering anyone
else can now be forced to appear in court. Drivers who commit the same
violation cannot." As I presently noted here, immigrants, legal or not,
were barely mentioned. Complaints centered around the fact that bikes or
ebikes are a tiny portion of pedestrian risk - motor vehicles are far,
far more dangerous - but motoring offenses are treated far more lightly.
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And regarding the incident linked within your NYP article regarding a
3-year-old girl getting knocked down when she ran into a protected bike
lane: Both the article describing it and the bulk of reader comments
faulted the design of the bike lane, not the fact that it was an ebike.
If there was _any_ mention of immigrants, it was minor. (I'm one of
those who think that facility design is nuts.)
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Finally, let's please remember that most immigrants are legal. Many do
take low paying jobs, including things like food delivery, but that does
not make them into illegals.

Indeed, immigrants were barely mentioned, yet the NYT propaganda
included the nonsense about the law being intended to hurt illegals.
That's the kind of stuff that makes me turn away from the NYT.

--
C'est bon
Soloman