New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said he is considering requiring bicyclists to be licensed and registered like automobile drivers currently are.
According to a report in the New York Daily News on Wednesday, the mayor also wants to expand the city's safety regulations, which already have won it a nanny-state reputation, to include requiring Citi Bike renters to wear helmets.
Mr. de Blasio called the idea of forcing cyclists to have licenses and registration a "valid discussion," the Daily News reported, and added that he also plans a crackdown on cyclists who break traffic laws.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/sep/4/bill-de-blasio-eyes-licenses-bike-riders/
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Friday September 06 2019, @06:17PM (1 child)
This is a really disingenuous headline.
I thought it sounded a bit over the top so I decided to look into it a bit more. [politico.com]
So a reporter asks him about licenses and he says he hasn't even thought about it but it might be worthy of discussion. And the Washington Times, with the help of the NY Post, turns that into DeBlasio planning to implement it.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 06 2019, @07:34PM
Maybe there is word we could use for this type of news?