Re: Cycling and social policy

On 5/31/2025 9:19 PM, Frank Krygowski 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/

 The New York Post trades heavily in sensationalism and political divisiveness.

and false narratives.

 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.
 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.)
 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.
 

And that fact that a person may be working towards making sure that an immigrants constitutional protections are not being violated does not automatically make them a supporter of illegal immigration (a lame and unsupportable theory promoted recently by others in this forum)
Then There are these hypocritical little gems in that NYP OpEd:
"Nobody’s getting “swept up” in the justice system here as long as they simply obey the rules of the road. "
Remove "road" from that sentence: We see daily reports of legal US residents and citizens following the rules getting detained by ICE.
"If a few more toddlers get mowed down because e-bikers get to ignore traffic laws — well, that’s acceptable collateral damage. "
It's a pity they don't feel the same about assault weapons.