NY Post July 30,19 scofflaw E Bike Tour leader R Bernstein goes to court.

Brooklyn E bike tour leader runs red lights. Disparages use of helmets. Wait until one of his clients suffers traumatic head injury and sues him. Common sense will make a lot of cents at that point.
Public and personal safety wanted. If bike advocates spent as much time and effort upholding reasonable laws promoting public safety as they do bellyaching everyone would be better off.

Metro

Watch: Adult cyclist cited for riding without helmet — under law meant for kids

By David Meyer, Craig McCarthy and Aaron Feis

July 30, 2019 | 8:25pm | Updated

Two Brooklyn cops ticketed a 45-year-old cyclist for riding without a helmet — erroneously citing a law that actually only applies to pedal-pushers under 14, viral video shows.
“In New York City, you should not be riding without a helmet,” one of the officers insists in the clip, shot Saturday morning near the corner of Avenue L and Bedford Avenue in Midwood.
The hapless cyclist, Ricky Bernstein, told The Post that the encounter began when he, his wife, and two other riders were pulled over by cops from the 70th Precinct for blowing through a red light around 11:05 a.m.
“He was just trying to bust my chops for everything,” said Bernstein, who admitted that all four ran through the light.
He also unsuccessfully tried to sell the cops on the idea that because the city recently passed legislation allowing cyclists to ride through some red lights — set to go on the books in the fall — the move was virtually legal.
Bernstein lost that argument and he claims the officer kept him around for nearly another hour trying to find other infractions.
“The first thing the cop says to all of us is [show us your] license or you’re getting arrested,” said Bernstein. “The whole verbal exchange went 45 minutes. He was harassing me for not having reflectors, for the pedal-assisted bike I was on.”
Bernstein, who leads citywide e-bike tours for a living, countered each of the purported accusations the officers levied against him — but couldn’t shake the claim that he was supposed to be riding with a helmet.
“A helmet’s not a law either,” the clip shows Bernstein informing the lawman.
“It’s not? OK,” replies the cop with a skeptical tone, as his partner throws up his hands.
“No, it’s not. I’m 100 percent positive,” counters Bernstein, correctly — it is only legally required for cyclists younger than 14 to don helmets.
“Please. Write all your tickets,” said Bernstein in the clip. “I’m gonna fight all of them and win them.”
As it turns out, he won’t have to — the NYPD said in a statement Tuesday that the summons was scrapped.
“The summons issued to the male for not wearing a helmet was issued in error and has been voided,” said the NYPD.
That was good news for Bernstein on Tuesday night.
“I don’t think the punishment fit the crime,” said Bernstein. “It was completely ridiculous.”
Bernstein will still have to report to court to answer the ticket for running the red light.

Filed under bikes ,  brooklyn ,  cycling ,  cyclists ,  nypd

Ninth Street Bike Lanes in contention. Myra Manning Park Slope

Resident group wants bike lanes returned to near curb. Statistics thrown by mid street advocates.Stats should always be taken with a healthy grain of salt.

Bike Lane Has Made 9th Street 'Almost Lawless,' Residents Say

A group of residents started an advocacy group after they say the new 9th Street bike lane raised safety concerns, but not everyone agrees.

By Anna Quinn, Patch Staff

Jan 29, 2019 4:56 pm ET | Updated Jan 30, 2019 10:40 am ET

PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN — A group of residents on 9th Street have started an advocacy group to solve what they say are a number of safety issues caused by a bike lane installed last year.
But if the first heated meeting about the concerns is any indication, not everyone agrees things should go back to the way they were. The bike lanes were part of a number of changes to the street following the death of two children in a car crash last year.
The meeting last Thursday, set up by Myra Manning, brought about 35 people and a representative from the borough president's office to All Saints Episcopal Church. It followed a petition Manning distributed after two of her elderly neighbors were almost hit by bicyclists speeding down the new lane, she said.

"Within one hour, I had 21 signatures," said Manning, who said the petition now has as many as 1,300 signatures. "I had thought I was alone, but then it just had a life of its own...Many people in neighborhood who I know personally have told me how unsafe they feel. It's almost lawless here."
The bike lane has made it so that delivery trucks or cars that are unloading need to do so unsafely in the middle of the road, which has become an issue for school buses, the supermarket and even a 9th Street funeral home who struggles to unload its caskets, Manning said.

Residents are also concerned about being hit by bicyclists, that their businesses are suffering because of a loss to parking and that 18-wheelers have taken to nearby one-way streets because they avoid the newly-narrow 9th Street. The group she co-founded, Citizens United For Safety, is seeking to hold meetings with more elected officials and obtain Department of Transportation documents to resolve the issues, Manning said.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, who had a representative of his office attend the meeting, wasn't immediately available for comment.
Manning contends that the street should be returned to its previous design, when the bike lane ran in between parking spaces and traffic instead of curbside.
But, it seems Manning and the new group will have an uphill battle. A few street-safety advocates who attended the meeting also say they will continue to make their voices heard in support of the bike lane, which they argue, along with other changes to street design, have decreased traffic deaths.
"All of the available evidence on protected bike lanes in New York City shows that they have made safer any street on which they have been installed," said Brian Howald, a Brooklyn Heights resident who attended the meeting. "Even though it feels odd to have bike lanes up against the curb, and even if it feels less safe, all the evidence suggests that it is indeed safer."
Howald said it is too early to analyze the 9th Street lane's impact on safety, but pointed to DOT statistics from 2014 about six bike lane projects in Manhattan. Injury crashes were reduced 17 percent, cyclist injuries were reduced 2 percent, pedestrian injuries were reduced 22 percent and injuries to car occupants were reduced 25 percent within three years, according to the report.
The new bike lanes can therefore improve safety for 9th Street as well, Howald contended.
Manning said that she and those who live on 9th Street do not feel that safety was an issue before the bike lanes were added.
But, Howald pointed out that Crashmapper shows that there were 118 total crashes, 158 injuries and three fatalities on a stretch of 9th Street since 2011.
Another street-safety advocate Peter Kaufman, who admits he got into a heated squabble with some of the meeting attendees, said the new group's arguments are similar to other times communities have fought against adding bike lanes.
"It's like bike-lash bingo," he said.
Manning maintained that the group is not meant to be anti-bike lane.
"We are not advocating that there should be no bike lanes, we're simply concerned about the bike lane being next to the curb," she said. "We're concerned citizens working for the safety of all."
Photo by Nick Rizzi/Patch

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NY Post** Corey Johnson Cars Shouldn't Be King of the Road.July 30-19

OK Spkr Johnson tell us how you really feel. And by the way would it be fair and balanced to
say how you propose to deal with the epidemic of rogue bike riding that is integral to many of the cycling deaths and a major disruption to public safety? Somehow that side of the discussion is given
short shrift.

Metro

Corey Johnson: Cars shouldn’t be the ‘king of the road’ in NYC

By Rich Calder

July 30, 2019 | 2:30pm | Updated

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City Council Speaker Corey Johnson continued to wage his war against motorists Tuesday — declaring that cars should no longer be “king of the road.”
Responding to the death of a 30-year-old Brooklyn cyclist a day earlier — the 18th bike rider killed in the city this year — Johnson told NY1 “it’s time to reclaim our streets for pedestrians and bicyclists.”
“Enough of putting cars Number 1, and making cars the king of the road,” he added. “You’re literally taking your life in your hands if you’re not biking in a protected bike lane.”
The comments come two weeks after Johnson, an early front-runner in the 2021 mayoral race, bluntly said he believes there’s too much public space dedicated to on-street car parking and that he plans to use his clout to replace some of the spaces with protected bike lanes.
When asked if such a move would alienate car-driving voters, Johnson said it “might, but it’s a matter of life and death.”
Johnson earlier this year proposed a five-year plan aimed at getting people out of their cars — including legislation that would require the city to build 150 miles of dedicated bus lanes and 250 miles of protected bike lanes.
Johnson later told The Post he is not a frequent cyclist himself and typically takes the subway to work — although he has an NYPD detail and is “driven around sometimes.”
“Frankly, I couldn’t do my job as speaker if I relied solely on mass transit,” he said.
“So many areas in this city don’t have subways or good bus service and that’s what I want to change. I understand that people right now need cars to get around.”
If elected mayor, he claimed he would still take the subway.
The speaker also told NY1 he’s very concerned about a Metropolitan Transportation Authority reorganization plan approved by the cash-strapped agency’s board last week — as it could strip power from popular subways boss Andy Byford.
Johnson said the council plans to hold hearings on the plan to get answers.

Filed under Cars ,  corey johnson ,  cyclists ,  mta ,  parking

CPW condo owners sue to "disrupt" CPW bike lane July 30,2019

From Streets Blog-Parroting the Trans Alt line. Condo owners have taken the lawsuit route
to counteract the high handed methods of City and DOT. This is a familiar tune. The proposed Chinatown jail has elicited a legal response from the community. Clearly this is one way the people
have to defend their rights against the e commerce disruptors. Of which we can count Trans Alt
as one. Further it needs to be noted that far from being a humble means of transportation and environmentally friendly The Related Companies Real Estate Developers-the Equinox and Blink
health club franchises and friends of Michael R Bloomberg(enterprises) control the C bike hustle.
Mark Gorton-head of Tower Financial-a hi frequency trading hedge fund and loser as the developer of lime wire software to the Recording Industry of America to the tune of 105 million dollars
is the primary financial backer of Trans Alt. Folks this is another elitist scheme under the guise
of going green. All that's green isn't as it seems.

BREAKING: Upper West Side NIMBYs Sue City Over Central Park West Bike Lane

• By Gersh Kuntzman
• Jul 30, 2019
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The city is being sued to block a protected bike lane on Central Park West — where Madison Lyden was killed last year. Photo: David Meyer

A group of Upper West Siders has started legal proceedings against the city for its plans to build a protected bike lane on Central Park West.
The suit, filed late on Tuesday by owners at the Century Condominum, argues that the plan constitutes “a wide-spread and comprehensive change to the traffic patterns on Central Park West” that is illegal because the city did not perform a sufficient environmental review.
Read the entire filing below.
City lawyers will race to 60 Centre Street on Wednesday in hopes of preventing a judge from issuing a temporary restraining order against the life-saving bike path, which was expected to be begun this year — little over a year after cyclist Madison Lyden was killed on the roadway when she was forced out of an unsafe painted bike lane and into traffic.
The case is just the latest in the last few months featuring a small group of residents challenging a fairly routine — and generally widely accepted as legitimate — use of government power. In the Bronx, some business owners on Morris Park Avenue sued the city to block its plans for a “road diet” that would reduce the roadway from four speedway-like lanes to two, with a center turning bay — a design that has been used repeatedly all over the city.
And on 14th Street, wealthy West Village and Chelsea landowners sued to stop the city’s plans for a bus-only roadway, claiming it would send cars to their quiet residential streets.
Both matters are pending in various courts.

CPW Residential Board of M v Residential Board of M PETITION 1 by Gersh Kuntzman on Sc

Two New Initiatives-Intersections & $58.4 Million expenditure for law abiding cyclists.

Two new initiatives by De Blasio administration. Bikes-if they stop-allowed to move with pedestrians at lights.

$58 million to be spent for the benefit of law abiding cyclists.

https://ny.curbed.com/2019/7/24/20707612/cyclists-deaths-head-start-dot-nyc-intersections-vision-zero

https://ny.curbed.com/2019/7/25/8930822/nyc-dot-bill-de-blasio-bike-safety-plan-cyclist-fatalities

July 29 2019-male cyclist avoiding opening car door fatally struck by truck

https://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/42/31/bn-sunset-park-cyclist-death-2019-08-02-bk.html



30 year old male fatally struck. Sadly another 2 wheeled fatality.

NY POST Editorial July 28,2019 Bike Bedlam Con artists

The Post continues to point out the hypocrisy of both Transportation Alternatives-its metastases-and the politicians-be they conned or grandstanding con artists themselves -who are perpetrating this public safety catastrophe. Transportation Alternatives and their well paid lobbyists have displayed
a reckless disregard for human life. By conflating "going green" with an out of control cycling
culture a small number of elitists have wrenched the city's grid to a pathetic miasma.World class
congestion for which the bike infrastructure set the table. A congestion tax which hurts lower income folks twice. Once to pay for the tax. Twice to pay the pass alongs that companies who get hit with
tax and fines must pay. Emergency vehicles are throttled. In 2017 the city lost 35 BILLION dollars
in business due to congestion. TA brays that the money spent was Federal-now asks that city money be spent. Well here comes $58 million out of the tax payer pocket. Picked again. Transportation Alternatives employs high minded narcissism and low ball tactics. The proof is in the pudding.
The NYPD has been undermined and the public taken for miserable ride on a long and twisting road.

editorial

‘Bike supremacy’ is ruining the city

By Post Editorial Board

July 27, 2019 | 10:46pm

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Bicycles account for just a tiny part of how New Yorkers get around, yet somehow the bike-brigade’s land grab goes on and on.
The latest is Mayor de Blasio’s “Green Wave Bicycle Plan,” dedicating $58.4 million to create another 80 miles of bike lines — more turf torn from cars and pedestrians.
The week before, he dropped plans to triple the number of Citi Bikes and more than double the program’s service area, even as other bike-share companies grab yet other parts of town.
And this mayor isn’t even all that bike-obsessed: He’s mainly just imitated the “Bikes Good, Cars Bad” approach of Mayor Mike Bloomberg.
De Blasio now hopes to have added 160 miles of bike lane in his eight years. Bloomberg created nearly 400 miles — while starting Citi Bike (with its sprawling bike racks taking yet more turf) and burning up more street space on pedestrian plazas.
His transportation department turned nearly 180 acres of prime real estate on stately corridors like Columbus Avenue into temples of torture for motorists, herding cars into single lanes and blitzing roadsides with “No Parking Anytime” signs.
Of course, de Blasio’s focus — his Vision Zero safety goals — often targets the same victims, as in his vows last week that the NYPD will “be watching drivers more closely” and that the city will “change the behavior of motorists.”
“Just in the first three weeks of this month . . . the NYPD issued more than 8,600 tickets for blocking bike lanes — double the same period from last year,” he crowed before emphasizing, “And we have juuuuuussst begun.”
Those tickets have mostly gone to drivers of delivery trucks — guys trying to do their jobs, which bike lanes make tougher.
This is a response to an uptick in bike deaths that has advocates up in arms. Yet it isn’t a true safety trend: Over the long term, the number tracks with bicycle use.
The drive to make New York more bike-friendly has more people riding more bikes more miles — which leads to more bicycle accidents, fatal and otherwise.
Safety was also the pretext for City Council passage of a law to let cyclists stopped by red lights start moving along with the pedestrian “walk” signal, before the light turns green. But the real motive was “bike supremacy”: The bill’s sponsor, Councilman Carlos Menchaca (D-Brooklyn), railed at “a culture that continues to privilege cars. ”Even more extreme is Speaker Corey Johnson, who this month complained on WNYC that the city has “too many parking spaces.”
CoJo also reiterated his standard line: “We need to break the car culture” that’s “choking our streets” and “literally killing people.” In late May, he dropped his plan to add even more bike lanes, and to double the city’s pedestrian-plaza acreage, over the next five years. And this is one of the leading candidates to succeed de Blasio.
Ever since Bloomberg, the line’s been that this all about good government: attracting tech companies (who love the cyclist lifestyle), fighting climate change, etc.
Not so: It’s an ideology, pure and simple — a faith in the moral inferiority of car and truck drivers, and in the moral virtue of cyclists.
That’s certainly how the bike-riders themselves view it: You can’t cross town without suffering cyclists’ contempt not just for motorists and pedestrians, but for anything and anyone who gets in their way.
That ideology has conned too many of the city’s leaders into handing over vast swathes of the city’s precious public space to a tiny minority of citizens — albeit an organized, and economically privileged, minority.
What the city really needs are leaders with the guts to stand up to the zealots and support the common good.

Filed under bikes ,  bill de blasio ,  corey johnson ,  editorial ,  nypd ,  traffic ,  vision zero

Reporter Gary interviews Ralph Perfetto former investigator of Public Advocate & Reggie "reformed jerk cyclist"

Location Coney Island. Sunday July 27,2019 Two interviews. Ralph Perfetto former lead legal investigator for the Office of Public Advocate and "Reggie" self confessed former "jerk" scofflaw

cyclist. Perfetto digs into the current lawless state of streets and sidewalks due to the rogue riding.

Attributes it to the undue influence of Transportation Alternatives. Suggests how things can and need to be made better. Reggie grew up in Harlem. Rode where and how he chose. Now a family man

he has seen the light. Wants to do and show his family how to do the right thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2c1nMgvlNs&feature=youtu.be--
Gary Baumgarten

Street Cycling Ballet- "I Want to Ride My Bicycle" music video (2013)

A well wrought music video from First Avenue era 2013-Time of Mayor Bloomberg and DOT
Commish JSK. A fitting tribute to chaos and bike bedlam. POV of one knowledgeable and justly disgruntled resident. WHAT'S OLD IS NEW AGAIN

NYC Bicyclists Don't Follow Rules and Don't Deserve Lanes

NYC Bicyclists Don't Follow Rules and Don't Deserve Lanes With apologies to the law abiding cyclists out there, some of whom I count as friends...this is how most cyclist...

Scoot Scoop-The scooter repo men of San Diego Cleaning the scooter clutter.

Scoot Scoop takes scooters off the streets, sidewalks and wherever they are
freely abandoned in San Diego. They are hired by businesses. They charge $ to the scooter
companies that want to recover their property. Public service to a public nuisance. Free to businesses and persons. Block business. Touch private property.Charge to company to retrieve from storage. If only an enterprising New Yorker could figure out how to make money of dog droppings.


https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/technology/sd-fi-scoot-scoop-tow-scooters-20190129-story.html

NYPD officer gets dumped on with buckets of water. "Disrespect"

Buckets of water from on high is more tangible and potentially more harmful.  But
the ongoing pattern of disrespect without consequence from the lack of enforcement
against the irresponsible bike culture has a spillover effect.

Voicer NYDN

The disrespect shown to an NYPD officer by unidentified assailants

tossing buckets of water is deplorable. However when a cyclist is able

to ride in a lawless fashion right by an NYPD officer or squad car with

impunity that sets up a pattern of disrespect without consequence.

With the mounting death toll of cyclists in New York City in 2019 and the

epidemic of rogue riding that has been going on for 20 years the

irresponsible bike culture has a spillover effect. It's time the city fathers

got a grip. Stop undermining the NYPD.  Allow cops to do their job.

Enforce the law in a sustained manner. Restore order to the streets and

sidewalks and respect for the NYPD.

Three more cyclists down. 2 gone. 1 in critical. New York is better than this.

This is grievous. This is sad. This could have been preventable. If the self styled visionaries
had worked diligently to establish a responsible bike culture many of these and previous
tragedies might have never occurred. In 2004 NACTO and The Rudin Center for Transportation of NYU conducted a joint study. The sole conclusion was in order to establish a responsible culture
it requires a cooperative effort. In their ZEAL to promote the bike build out and with the blessing
of Mayor Michael Bloomberg the NYC DOT under Janette Sadik Khan and with her "brain trust"
of Transportation Alternatives simply ignored other city agencies and refused to join a task force
in 2010 proposed by the office of the NY Boro President. Their stated aim was to increase bike ridership and build as much bike infrastructure as rapidly as possible and make it as difficult as possible to remove it. This manifested rarely seen hubris and a reckless indifference to human
life. Now we see the price that the public is paying. Breaking the car culture? Bike infrastructure set the table for congestion. In 2017 congestion cost NYC 35 billion dollars in lost business.Congestion
begat the congestion tax in 2019. About 85,000 cyclists commute.Weather permitting. About 3 1/2 million commuters use public transportation. Primarily young and healthy people cycle.This is not New York finest moment.By twisting the arm of Mayor Bloomberg to suppress enforcement by the NYPD against scofflaw bike riding and then clamoring for enforcement-primarily against motor vehicles-Transportation Alternatives perpetrated a massive hypocrisy. Further it removed any
legitimacy from the bike build out. The virtue of going green was simply a ruse for serial sophistry and what amounts to a swindling of the public.
                                              R.I.P.  
                             Towards a Better New York

Metro

Cyclist clinging to life after being struck by car in Queens

By Ben Feuerherd

July 24, 2019 | 2:07am | Updated

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The bicyclist was struck by this SUV on Woodhaven Blvd and Jamaica Avenue. Seth Gottfried

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A bicyclist is clinging to life after being struck by a car in Queens early Wednesday morning, cops said.
The unidentified cyclist was struck soon after 1 a.m. on Woodhaven Boulevard near the intersection of Jamaica Avenue in Woodhaven, police said.
The cyclist was rushed to Jamaica Hospital in critical condition, authorities said.
The driver of the car remained on scene, police said. No arrests were made on Tuesday night.
On Tuesday, two cyclists were killed in separate boroughs hours apart from one another, cops said.
A 58-year-old was killed when he was hit by a box truck while riding on the southbound side of McGuiness Avenue at 3:51 p.m. in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, authorities said.
Hours earlier, a 17-year-old was fatally struck by a tow truck while riding on Staten Island at about noon, police said.

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Another cyclist fatally struck-Staten Island #16 2019

Teen on Staten Island collision with tow truck.Taken to hospital. Died. Questions unanswered-wearing a helmet? Obeying the law? Given proper education to uphold a responsible bike culture?
If not the lack of a responsible bike culture can be attributed to the refusal of Transportation Alternatives to participate in a cooperative group to establish the rules of a responsible bike culture and an effort to suppress enforcement by the NYPD of the scofflaw cycling. All this to allegedly
increase bike ridership. Well here's one young soul down. Diminishing ridership by one permanently.
If you are skeptical about what I wrote-then answer how did New York arrive at an epidemic of rogue bike riding? What brought about the irresponsible bike culture? What set the table for world class
congestion? What caused 35 billion dollars in lost business in 2017 in NYC? What brought about
the congestion tax? Could it have been due to an exercise in zealotry? Pandering politicians?
It's Not Easy Being Green. New York is Better Than This.

Cyclist Killed in Staten Island — Becomes 16th Victim This Year

• By Gersh Kuntzman
• Jul 23, 2019
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The crash site. Photo: Google

A tow truck driver ran over and killed a teen cyclist on Tuesday afternoon in Staten Island — making him the 16th cyclist to die in an already bloody year.
According to the NYPD, the 38-year-old tow truck was heading south on Clove Road and the 17-year-old cyclist on a mountain bike was traveling westbound on Castleton Avenue in the West Brighton section of the Rock at around 12:03 p.m. when the two collided. The NYPD did not have any additional details about the crash, except that the driver remained on the scene.
The teen was taken to Richmond University Hospital, where he died.
The victim is the 16th cyclist to die in 2019 — making an already deadly year even worse. Last year, 10 cyclists were killed.
This story will be updated as more information comes in.

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Sean Avery "Poster Boy" Profane Scooter Apostle of Bike Lanes

A Sean Avery nugget from his controversial career on the ice and off. This is his take on how to
leave a relationship with honor and grace. We do hope that Avery is not on retainer by Transportation
Alternatives and is going his maverick way. Avery was one of the most frequently penalized players in the NHL during his career. Apparently the anger management course he was mandated to attend-well let's just say Sean is no Mr. Rogers and he might benefit from a refresher.
This is offered to give perspective on the most recent Avery caper. Below-he hit a motor vehicle while Sir Galahad like riding a scooter. Vehicular assault anyone?

"Sloppy seconds" comment

On December 2, 2008, prior to the Stars' morning skate in preparation for a game against the Calgary Flames, Avery approached the assembled reporters in the dressing room and stated, “I just want to comment on how it's become like a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with my sloppy seconds. I don't know what that's about, but enjoy the game tonight.” At the time, two of Avery's ex-girlfriends were dating fellow NHL players – actress Elisha Cuthbert was dating Flames defenseman Dion Phaneuf, and model Rachel Hunter was dating Kings center Jarret Stoll.^[34][35][36]
Within hours, the NHL suspended Avery indefinitely for "conduct detrimental to the league or the game of hockey". His comments were met with near-unanimous condemnation by the Stars organization, fellow players, and fans alike. Stars owner Tom Hicks said that the team would have suspended Avery had the NHL not acted first.^[37] Avery apologized the next day, calling his actions "inappropriate" and "a bad attempt to build excitement for the game".^[38]
On December 5, the NHL fixed Avery's suspension at six games, retroactive to the December 2 game against the Flames. He agreed to undergo anger management counseling due to what the NHL called unacceptable and antisocial behavior. Commissioner Gary Bettman noted that both he and league disciplinarian Colin Campbell had warned Avery several times before about his behaviour.^[36] On December 14, after the last game of Avery's suspension, the Stars announced that Avery would not return to the team. One factor in the Stars decision was that coach Dave Tippett and several of the players, including Mike Modano and Marty Turco, let it be known they weren't willing to take him back on the team. Tippett had warned Avery not to talk to the media about his former girlfriends, and was outraged when he did so.^[39][40] According to TSN's James Duthie, Avery's teammates had soured on him not long after he arrived. The "sloppy seconds" incident was the last straw, and Hicks had been actively looking to cut ties with him while the suspension was underway.^[41]

Ex-New York Ranger Sean Avery -Profane Apostle of Bike Lanes

Perhaps Mr. Avery is accustomed to high sticking his way around the ice-however in the case of bike lanes the ends do not justify profane rock em sock em means. Save it for the MMA Cage Sean. Take a look at Europe-from where the bike program has been imported. The logistics of street width, vehicular, pedestrian and cycling density-and most of all cycling culture-are vastly different. You could attribute your dissatisfaction to Transportation Alternatives bike cultists ramming a square peg
in a round hole. Further in your automobile are you thriving in the congestion that the bike infrastructure set the table for? Did you lose time or wages in 2017? New Yorkers lost 35 billion dollars that year. And despite the substantial salaries earned by professional hockey players doesn't it irk you enough to curse that the congestion tax in midtown immediately bumps up the cost of a taxi
ride? Cheaper and faster to walk. Hopefully you won't get hit by an unlicensed scooter or motorized delivery bike. Hey Sean you probably still have a hockey helmet lying around somewhere. Keep it handy.

Sean Avery continues his bike lane crusade

By Mara Siegler

July 16, 2019 | 8:30pm

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Sean Avery — the ex-Rangers player who rejected a plea deal in Manhattan Criminal Court this week for allegedly hitting a car with his scooter after it blocked a bike lane — is coming through on his vow to be “the poster boy for defending the bike lanes.”
Avery allegedly bashed the car Feb. 23, then told The Post after a June court hearing, “We need to be able to just bike in freedom.”
Lately he’s been posting Instagram Stories of himself yelling at delivery drivers who dare park in his beloved New York City bike lanes.
On Monday, he uploaded a clip yelling at a worker unloading a pallet of goods: “Good morning s - - thead! Do you think there is any correlation to the fact you’re wearing a triple XL shirt and are too lazy to park on the other side of the street?”
Avery ignores the guy’s explanation and fires back, “Just from a science standpoint, you fat lazy f - - k!” In another post from a month ago, the hotheaded former NHL star yells at a different driver, “You lazy f - - k! You have those googly eyes!”
And, “Why don’t you park it on the other side of the road you lazy f - - k? I’m gonna let you off today.”
He’s due back in court on Sept. 5. We hope he’ll be nicer to the judge.

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Another Ci Bike down in Brooklyn.Injured.7-16-19

Another Ci Bike rider down in Brooklyn. 11 of 15 cyclist death so far in 2019 have occurred
in Brooklyn. This rider was taken by ambulance but according to account minor injuries. Hunter
College study shows that Ci Bike riders are less likley that regular riders to use a helmet. Clearly
not likely to reduce traumatic brain injury. What is more important-rider safety or allegedly increasing ridership? Something doesn't seem right with this picture.

https://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/42/29/dtg-park-slope-bike-collision-2019-07-16-bk.html

CBS local reports on Citibike expansion plans to Bronx-reactions 7/16/19

 A two minute CBS local report on the reactions to Citibike's proposed expansion to the Bronx.
Also serving as a bulldozer for the building of bike lanes.

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/video/4125773-citi-bikes-expansion-plans-met-with-concerns-from-some/

Invasion of the Electric Scooter-Can Cities Cope? The Guardian" 7-16-19

This is a pretty comprehensive piece on the ins and outs of the electric scooter.Another short distance mode of transportation?? Or another venture capital fueled E commerce venture being shoved down
the throats of already badgered and bamboozled citizens.Mentions Emily Hartridge. Recent matyr to
the mode.


 https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/jul/15/invasion-electric-scooter-backlash

Influencer Emily Hartridge fatally struck by truck on Escooter.

R.I.P. Emily

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YouTube Star Emily Hartridge Dies at 35 in Electric Scooter Collision

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Popular Youtube star Emily Hartridge died on Friday, reportedly in a traffic collision involving her electric scooter and a truck. She was 35.
The news of her shocking death was announced in a post to her fans shared to her Instagram page on Saturday.

NO HELMET LAW-NO PROBLEM ---PHOTO (brain damage-no problem)

-- This photo was supplied by CCRC(Chinatown) member Jan Lee. A telling image of a cyclist intertwined with an off road bike. Apparently comatose.

            Caption-" Back in my day we didn't wear a helmet. We fell. We got irreversible brain damage.

                           We didn't complain about it."

Personally I've been saved three times from head injury. Wear a helmet. You have only one brain to live or die with.

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Columnist Gary Taustine after Mass Die In WSQPK*NYC NOT SAFE for Bikes*

                      

Opinion

NYC’s privileged bicyclists won’t even discuss best way to stop bike deaths

By Gary Taustine

July 11, 2019 | 8:33pm

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The death of Devra Freelander, a young cyclist killed by a truck last week, spurred outrage among cyclists and demands for more bike lanes. So how do we prevent such tragedies from happening again?
We know one thing: A million miles of protected lanes wouldn’t have saved Freelander. She was killed at an intersection, having hurtled from the sidewalk through a red light in front of the oncoming truck, which wasn’t speeding and had the right of way.
The two things that might have prevented this horror — training and adherence to rules — are tellingly absent from the protesting cyclists’ list of demands. Not to put too fine a point on it, cyclists are frequently their own worst enemy, and their presence has made everyone less safe.
Of course, automobiles are more dangerous than bikes, but adding cyclists to the mix, many of whom refuse to obey traffic laws, has compounded that ­hazard.
When Mayor Mike Bloomberg began wedging bike lanes into our already crammed streets, it wasn’t to meet a demand — it was to create one. To promote cycling, he and then-DOT Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan, a bike ­enthusiast, threw caution to the wind and encouraged cyclists to hit the streets without so much as a helmet law, which might have deterred ridership, especially among the affluent, arrogant, scofflaw cyclists who want to use the city as their own personal racetrack.
Then came Citi Bike, offering up cumbersome, unwieldy and ­garishly colored bikes to inexperienced riders. Suddenly, without any training or education, thousands of New Yorkers were riding alongside hulking trucks and buses, whose blind spots are exacerbated by the speed and narrow silhouettes of bicycles.
It was a recipe for disaster, and the disproportionately influential, ceaselessly kvetching bicycle-advocacy groups capitalized on every heart-rending fatality to further their agenda.
Nobody elected the advocacy outfit Transportation Alternatives to speak for New Yorkers. It isn’t a safety organization, a cadre of seasoned city planners or even some impartial arbiter seeking what’s best for everyone; it’s a bunch of mainly upscale cyclists trying to make the city more navigable for themselves.
Yet for some reason they are permitted to dictate the configuration of our streets. The authorities have shoehorned more and more bike lanes into the gutters at their behest, even though the city wasn’t designed to safely accommodate both automobiles and bikes, making any unbroken route for cyclists physically impossible.
Many of our major thoroughfares now have one side of the street reserved for buses and the other for bicycles, leading to frequent and sudden bike-lane obstructions whenever vehicles need access to a curb or construction is underway. Even protected bike lanes are still subject to foot traffic, and everyone from joggers to skateboarders has adopted the lanes as their own.
Adding insult to injury, soon ­e-bikes, offering all the speed of a bicycle with none of the effort, will call the lanes home as well. What could possibly go wrong?

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Meanwhile, pedestrians have borne the brunt of the onslaught. While not all cyclists flout the rules, far too many exceed speed limits, obstruct crosswalks, run red lights, ride in the wrong direction and hop sidewalks without compunction, admonishment or penalty. Big Apple cyclists have earned their disrepute.
It’s not at all unusual to see them texting or riding hands-free as they careen through traffic. Close calls have become a daily occurrence, especially for the elderly and disabled, whose reflexes aren’t ideal for evading speeding cyclists.
Case in point, two months ago, 67-year-old Donna Sturm died after being mowed down by a cyclist who ran a red light in Midtown. If bicyclists can ride fast enough to kill, they ride too fast to enjoy exemption from the training, certification, insurance and identifiable licensing ­required for the use of every other vehicle on our streets.
Bike lanes haven’t made anyone any safer, but they have inarguably taken traffic congestion from bad to intolerable. The narrowing of our city’s critical arteries to accommodate a tiny ­minority whose vehicles are rendered impractical all winter and on rainy days seems to have been irrationally prioritized with regard to triage.
Buses, delivery trucks, taxis, emergency responders and sanitation vehicles, which provide essential services and transportation for millions, are needlessly delayed for one third of the year while the lanes lie dormant; and even during more meteorologically hospitable months the sheer disparity between the number of people who benefit from bike lanes and those for whom they are a hindrance begs redress.
The carnage we have seen this year is a direct result of the free ride and false sense of security given to cyclists by the mayor and his predecessor. New York City is not safe for bikes, and it never will be.
Gary Taustine is a writer who lives in New York City.

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