New York - Bicycling in the City and Living to Tell a Skittish Class

Attempts at rider-driver peacekeeping were a theme of Ms. Crotty’s presentation, despite one aside in which she extolled the “8,000 reasons why riding a bike is superior to driving a car.” Proper signaling as a cyclist, she said, was a sign of respect to drivers, a way of “giving them the info they need” to avoid a crash and demonstrating that they should respect cyclists in kind. Read more.