New York’s ‘Rising Tide Of Bicyclist Tyranny’
THE ISSUE: Steve Cuozzo’s column arguing that cyclists and bike lanes make commuting hellish for NYers.
City cyclists regularly terrorize pedestrians by illegally using sidewalks, riding the wrong way on one-way streets and running red lights (“NY’s Vicious Cyclists,” PostOpinion, June 2).
Furthermore, batterypowered bicycles are equivalent to unregistered, uninsured motor vehicles barreling silently down sidewalks.
Why isn’t the NYPD protecting pedestrians from the rising tide of bicyclist tyranny on the streets? Robert Pomeroy Manhattan
Finally, someone is calling out the handle-barbarians.
The majority of New Yorkers do not commute via bicycle, yet buses, ambulances, police cars, delivery trucks and pedestrians are all inconvenienced or endangered so these cretins can get in a good workout. They’re literally the 1 percent, and they have commandeered our streets.
Woe betide the unfortunate pedestrians whose need to navigate a street leaves them in the crosshairs of these marauding lunatics. Please, Mayor de Blasio, hear our cry. Tear up those bike lanes.
As for CitiBike, not only do we not want to pay for its expansion, we want all of the existing CitiBikes and their hideous docks melted into a statue of a gigantic taxicab door as a warning to all bicycle activists. Gary Taustine Manhattan
I greatly appreciated Steve Cuozzo’s column on bikes and bike lanes.
I find it infuriating that cyclists break every rule of the road and then selfrighteously yell at everyone in their way.
A cyclist recently yelled at me as I was driving, though I had done noth- ing wrong, then cut me off and ran the red light. I also nearly got hit by a cyclist going the wrong way on a one-way street through the red light while I was walking. I had the walk signal, but that doesn’t matter to cyclists.
Cyclists will tell you it is quicker to ride a bike than it is to drive a car in the city. This would not be possible if the cyclists actually followed the rules. Why doesn’t the city enforce the rules of the road with cyclists? George Shea Manhattan
These mostly unused bicycle lanes cause choked-up traffic, are a hazard to pedestrians and hurt business revenue. None of this matters to the oblivious politicians who implemented them.
The Department of Transportation’s latest and most idiotic move was putting a bicycle lane on the east side of Second Avenue crossing both entrances to the Ed Koch Bridge. It makes no sense. Vincent Fattizzi Little Neck
I purchased a racer bike in 1979 and rode it regularly for a couple of years. I also did a lot of driving in the city. I soon realized that to ride a bike on Manhattan roads, one had to be crazy or ignorant.
Drivers are not looking for cyclists in their mirrors. That’s why many cyclists get injured or killed.
The creation of hundreds of bike lanes throughout the boroughs, which cause mass congestion, is nothing but a luxury fostered by pandering politicians who offer nothing but meaningless talk for the pedestrians and drivers who are being steamrolled by these characters.
Is de Blasio listening? Jerry Coccoli Manhattan
No laws are enforced for cyclists. Like everything else in this city, it’s a free-for-all. Bikers do not respect pedestrians. They pose a publichealth problem. Dan Riccard Brooklyn
Bravo for the logical treatment of the ridiculous notion that biking makes sense in the city.
Politicians enabling this should consider that we have bus lanes and bike lanes, yet insufficient emergency-vehicle lanes. Stop the madness. Bill Regan Manhattan