Citi bike Karen:: A teachable cancel culture moment? Red Banyan

https://redbanyan.com/citi-bike-karen-confrontation-shows-grave-danger-of-the-cancel-culture-curse/

Queens** Teen Riding e-scooter fatally struck by MTA bus** Gothamist 8/8/23

https://gothamist.com/news/teen-riding-electric-scooter-fatally-struck-by-mta-bus-in-queens Run a red light run a risk. Anyone who expects riders to discipline themselves is flirting with delusion. A responsible bike culture was avoided 23 years ago. The result is the present chaos and danger The Emperor wears no clothes. And since the pandemic he's been dining outdoors in the Wintertime. Enforcement is the backbone of successful biking programs in Europe where the logistics are quite different. A responsible approach require rational thinking and a cooperative effort. Sometimes visionaires are zealots.

WNYC B Lehrer Show e-bike trouble-NYC-EVSA Janet Schroder*****

From minute 18-27 Janet Schroder makes important points on behalf of NYC-EVSA (electric vehicle safety alliance). The reason that at this date the city is dealing with a screaming crisis is that there was an irrational move by the bike advocates/zealots at the early Bloomberg administration to withhold enforcement by the NYPD. A neat double. Undermine the NYPD and allow the riders to go rogue without accountability. Rational? I think not. Then there was no effort to establish a responsible bike culture. In Europe that was done diligently and with different logistics in population density and street width. But New York visionaries know better. Reality says police enforcement is the backbone of any responsible bike culture. The New York backbone was undermined.No environmental impact study. Bike visionaries know better. From being good for climate change we get the worst congestion in the nation. From congestion we get congestion tax. Bike zealots know better. https://www.wnyc.org/story/what-happens-when-speedy-mopeds-crowd-bike-lanes/