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Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders

posted by janrinok on Friday September 06 2019, @11:09AM   Printer-friendly
from the o-wheely? dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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/

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @01:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 07 2019, @01:11PM (#890950)

    So, bicycles are already more dangerous than assault rifles.

    I grew up in a family of 9. My mother was the only one NOT to have a bicycle. My father was the only one to have a gun. Anecdotal though this evidence may be, if you divide the death toll from bicycles by 8 to get a slightly better comparison of number of deaths by cause per owner of object that caused the death, that is the fraction deaths/(cause*#object owners), does your point make as much sense as you originally thought?

    I didn't even have to bring up the health benefits of the exercise biking provides, or the usefulness in some areas of bicycles as a means of transportation, but please also consider those in your evaluation, as those are value added to society by bicycles. Gun usage isn't known to help reduce heart disease, just some food for thought.