NYC Mayor: I'd Ban Bikes on Subways
source: http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/06/are-bikes-welco.html
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WTF!
Hizzoner: "I don't run the subway system, I don't run the MTA but if I did -- if I had total power -- I guess I'd say it's too crowded for bikes."
The only wheels he wants too see are baby strollers...
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Give me a break.
My bike is my baby.
Makes the BART look like a primo limo! West is best.
By Alexander Lew //WIRED_blog
Hearing that you're not welcome on the subway because you're carrying a bicycle is disappointing to say the least, especially since biking goes hand-in-hand with public transit. That's why cyclists in the Big Apple were outraged when Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that, if it were up to him, he'd ban bikes from trains.
Bike advocates quickly denounced Bloomberg's comments.
"We have the most liberal bikes-on-transit policy in the entire country," Wiley Norvell of Transportation Alternatives, the city's leading bicycle advocacy group, told the New York Post. "Without that access, it would be a huge blow to biking in the city."
Yet the mayor says the only wheels he wants to see on subways are on baby strollers? The irony of that is not lost on Norvel, who said, "the idea that you can take on a cello, stroller or drum set but not bikes is ridiculous."
The MTA seems to agree. So far, it hasn't changed its policy.
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Hizzoner: "I don't run the subway system, I don't run the MTA but if I did -- if I had total power -- I guess I'd say it's too crowded for bikes."
The only wheels he wants too see are baby strollers...
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Give me a break.
My bike is my baby.
Makes the BART look like a primo limo! West is best.
By Alexander Lew //WIRED_blog
Hearing that you're not welcome on the subway because you're carrying a bicycle is disappointing to say the least, especially since biking goes hand-in-hand with public transit. That's why cyclists in the Big Apple were outraged when Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that, if it were up to him, he'd ban bikes from trains.
Bike advocates quickly denounced Bloomberg's comments.
"We have the most liberal bikes-on-transit policy in the entire country," Wiley Norvell of Transportation Alternatives, the city's leading bicycle advocacy group, told the New York Post. "Without that access, it would be a huge blow to biking in the city."
Yet the mayor says the only wheels he wants to see on subways are on baby strollers? The irony of that is not lost on Norvel, who said, "the idea that you can take on a cello, stroller or drum set but not bikes is ridiculous."
The MTA seems to agree. So far, it hasn't changed its policy.
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Dmitri_Molotov
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west is indeed best.
- 3 years ago
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Dmitri_Molotov
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1percent
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That's N.Y.
This is the attitude that propelled me to make the westward shift.
And yes, West Is Best.
Paris' Velib' is a great idea for the masses... But I couldn't ride anything but my own ride....
Denver is a great spot to be in for Bikes... I like it..
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1percent
