NYPD Hits Bike Riders With 1,400 Tickets in Two Weeks

• These bikers are douce bags and should be arrested.

• bikes are not 2 ton motorized vehicles, so they should not be considered the same. there are obviously problem riders that should be punished, but most riders do not fall into that category.,

• ask the cops how many of those 979 tickets were written in central park during the hours when the park is closed to cars. It makes as much sense to ticket bikers in CP when it is closed to cars as it does to go fishing in a barrel and then bragging about it. Ask how many of the tickets were given to wrong way riders. Ask how many were for riding on the sidewalks. It's pretty obvious this is more about PR than real safety since they are going after the easiest targets that pose little or not threat to the safety of the public.

• when in a park, with no cars, why should a cyclist get a ticket if otherwise riding safely?

• Not everyone calls the pigs that never show up YOU PUSSY. Oh shit lil bitch callin the girls in blue right now cos of a comment daaaaaaaaaamn. lil bitch.

• People who break the rules of the road deserve to get tickets. Bicyclists are not pedestrians on wheels.....they are the drivers of vehicles. The rules for bikes are the same as for cars. If we want to be respected we must also have respect for others. -Joe Bike

• Riding a bike in NYC is plain dangerous, deliveries are made wherever truck feel like it, taxis swerve all over to get fares, double-parking blocks the lanes cyclists need with regularity, getting "doored" is always a risk, pedestrians cross wherever they fell like. As a cyclist I would routinely see dozens of parking and moving violations that should be ticketed as they result in dangerous situations. It's very, very hard to spot an incident where a cyclists might result in harm. Ticketing Chinese delivery bikes on the sidewalk will do much to enforce the safety of the city.

• Cops follow orders. If you want to stop an elephant from crushing you, aim for the head, not the feet, that just pisses them off. ATTENTION PSYCHOTIC RETARDS WITH ACCESS TO FIREARMS: What I mean is take your grievances to the head of police in a civil manner, not actually hurt anyone (all that does is make you a scumbag).

• To paraphrase Utah Phillips, bike messengers are assholes, but they are their own asshole, see, it's when you grow up and become somebody else's asshole that we're all in trouble. While I think they could be a little less out of control, I don't think going batshit crazy with tickets is the solution. This has a lot more to do with money than order, just like anti-immigration measures have more to do with keeping the privatized prison business booming rather than protecting anyone from the terrible evil of day laborers.

• Oink oink oink oink. Get up to get get down, 911 is a joke in your town.

• What is the Post doing quoting Norman "Donut Run" Steisel, the former sanitation commissioner, on the subject of bikes? The guy is opposed to one bike lane and suddenly he's an expert? Not one quote from real advocacy groups, only one from him, representing his group of NIMBYs. The minute they rip out the Prospect Park West bike lane, if they ever do, is the minute Norman Steisel stops caring about bike lanes. This is the kind of journalism one expects from the Post, unfortunately.

• nice tell them that next time they come to bail out your pathetic soul when you call 911 for some nonsense you could'nt handle yourself

• It's one thing to target the idiots who start salmoning all over williamsburg come June, but anyone out on the streets right now is riding because their livelihood depends on it. It seems a bit cruel to ticket a bike for going through a red light with nobody coming in either direction as if it were a car (~$200) when its rider is probably 1) not wealthy and 2) in a hurry to get out of the goddamn cold as quickly as possible. This is bullshit.

• Fuck the Cops

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