New York is proposing a new bicycle law. They want all bikes to have license plates. Bicycle owners would pay $25 for the first year and then $5 each year after that.
Ed Reilly of WKBW ha more: http://www.wkbw.com/news/video/LICENSE-PLATES-FOR-BIKES-117204918.html
The idea is not going over too well upstate.
"Collecting money from parents and from little kids - that would give us their allowance money to be able to ride their bicycle - to pay for a license plate . . . that's gone too far," says Erie County Clerk Kathy Hochul.
Ed Reilly of WKBW ha more: http://www.wkbw.com/news/video/LICENSE-PLATES-FOR-BIKES-117204918.html
I used to have a license plate on my bike. It was adminstered by the city.
When I try to cross the road on foot, I have to wait for the car to pass. They will not stop. Similarly at a crossroad: when both a pedestrian and a car are waiting, the car get's to go first, always.
Why?
Why do I have to wait and not the car?
Who's in more danger, me - a pedestrian - or the person the the car?
Who's sheltered from the rain and the cold, me - a pedestrian - or the person in the car?
Who's gonna get there faster, me - a pedestrian - or the person in the car?
Who's polluting the environment, me - a pedestrian - or the person in the car?
Maybe because he is in a car he is somehow a better person and I as a pedestrian am a lesser person and hence should give way to the big important person in the car?
At best both the pedestrian and the car are equal, but then why does the pedestrian always has to watch out for his life so as not to be run over, it's not as if the car will stop, oh no, it's a car: make way!
Replace pedestrian with bicyclist if you want, it's the same thing.
NYC is just blaming cyclists for their traffic issues.
Damn reactionary buffoons...