Transportation systems based on cars are definitely a treatable and preventable disease.

One question which has always been on my mind is, if a motorist passes a cyclist at an unsafe speed and/or buffer distance (especially if said passing is prompted by the motorist’s frustration), is that considered Assault with a Deadly Weapon?

As a moral question, I fail to see how this is any different than one pedestrian walking up to another, pointing a gun in his or her face, and saying, “Get out of my way, or I will f*cking kill you.”

Does the law see it this way as well? Should I be calling 911 every time a motorist intentionally threatens my life due to the simple reason that my presence on the road may delay his commute by fifteen seconds?

I am puzzled by Klinkenborg’s last comments about Thomas Jefferson.
If the horse were pedaling or it was an electric bicycle, I could agree, but since these students were all pedaling on their own, what’s the loss? If Klinkenborg is so worried about humans being “so ambitious to exceed a foot-pace”, what does he say about cars? Isn’t bicycling a lot closer to “our natural gaits” than riding in a car?

Yesterday, I rode my bicycle over the Brooklyn Bridge, up the Hudson bike path to a show at the Javits Center, across town to a Community Board meeting at the NYU Medical Center, with a shopping stop along the way, and returned home down the East River Drive bike path in the twinkling dark over the Manhattan Bridge back to Brooklyn. I traveled faster than any subway bus combination, but frankly, by the end of the day, I was tired.

I earned my ride, I enjoyed the views, I lost nothing riding the bicycle.

http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=31&id=31991

Having been slammed to the pavement by a van mirror to the elbow, it sounds like a good law to me.