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• Cars afraid of bikes

  Cars afraid of bikes. Wow! That's a change I could get used to. It's like Freaky Friday. Here's the CNN Report link (via BikeHacks.com ). One driver said, "We can't go anywhere because we're all horrified, scared that if we go... Posted Jul 28 2008, 12:24 AM by Astoria Bike Filed under: cars and why I hate them

• Chill out, bro!

  I thought they were supposed to be mellow in the Pacific Northwest. Here are two stories I read on Streetsblog . Driver arrested after alleged road-rage incident against cyclist . Police identify suspect in fatal attack at traffic circle . Posted Jul 21 2008, 05:41 PM by Astoria Bike Filed under: cars and why I hate them, biking in foreign lands

• 16 injured by runaway vehicles in Chinatown, Garment District and Harlem

  And not one of those vehicles was a bicycle. Here's the Post's account. And the Daily News . I didn't just do this just to prove my point about the comparative harmlessness of bikes. You gotta believe me! Why do we let cars do this? I wonder... Posted Jun 21 2008, 12:22 AM by Astoria Bike Filed under: cars and why I hate them

• Operation Barrier in Effect

  The NYPD has implemented an innovative, some would even say brilliant, approach to keep motorized traffic from driving in bike lanes. It's called Operation Barrier. And since the NYPD's trial run on Fulton Street in Brooklyn, reported incidences... Posted Jun 14 2008, 04:00 PM by Astoria Bike Filed under: cars and why I hate them, bike lanes

• The "need" for a car

  "I need a car," a friend of mine declared a few days ago. I hate hearing this shit. If you live in New York City, you don't "need" a car. I'm not a live-off-the-land kind of guy. I like living in urban civilization and paying... Posted Mar 31 2008, 12:55 PM by Astoria Bike Filed under: cars and why I hate them, city biking