Media Coverage of NYC's Anti-Bike Bill - Cycling Mob: Road Cycling, Mountain Biking and More

11-18-2004, 08:03 PM

=v= The papers have found out about this bill.

_Newsday_: Bronx pol pushes for mandatory bike licenses:
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"When I was a kid, I had a license plate on my bike.
I'm trying to remember which cereal box I got it from."

_Daily_News_: Pol rolling out Council bill to license bikes:
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"Pedal pushers think her chain has slipped."

=v= Some folks on these lists have mentioned Critical Mass in
relation to this bill, but this has not come up in the news
coverage. The person filing the bill doesn't mention it at all
in these articles. Even _am_New_York_, a free tabloid which,
at the behest of the NYPD's PR department, wrote a front page
editorial screed against Critical Mass, didn't mention it.
<_Jym_>