We’ve received a shitload of issues right here in New York Metropolis, and approach, approach, approach down on the backside of the pile is the smallest drawback of all of them–horses within the bike lanes:
I haven’t even seen Streetsblog complaining about this, so I can solely assume the Submit is overlaying it for 2 causes. The primary cause in fact is the horse puns:
I’ve neigh drawback with that.
And the second cause is that it’s a chance for the Submit to make cyclists seem like whiners and “woosies:”
The terribly distant probability you would possibly get kicked within the head by a horse in New York Metropolis is but another excuse it is best to all the time put on that helment, similar to I do if somebody’s paying me and says I’ve to:
Although the step-through is all me:
In New York Metropolis you’re in all probability extra more likely to get kicked within the head by a fixie rider doing that leg-over-the-handlebar observe bike mounting factor than by a horse, so I’m doing my half by reducing the bar, each actually and metaphorically.
As for the horse carriage drivers, they too have clearly realized that when accused of something it is best to all the time level the finger at ebikes:
After all horses do often go rogue:
Rattling brakeless horses.
Extra just lately, one even ran onto the West Facet Freeway:
So far as I do know a horse has not managed to take out a pedestrian in latest reminiscence, however I think about there are so few horse-on-pedestrian accidents within the metropolis for the straightforward cause that there are so few horses. Issues have been quite a bit totally different again within the previous days:
[From here–and that’s a good horse pun.]
Regardless, that is clearly a non-problem, however that’s not stopping at the very least one politician from making an attempt to leverage the non-existent outrage:
Erik Bottcher is in fact the identical councilmember behind the daring “Gradual Your Roll, Respect The Stroll” PSA:
I’m wanting ahead to his new “Cease The Trot, For A Bike You Are Not” marketing campaign.
As for the town’s bicyclists, they’re too upset about The Puddle to fret about horses. Sure, I’ve lengthy mocked their obsession with a moist patch on the Brooklyn Bridge:
However now their worst nightmare has come true, and it has solidified right into a lethal ice patch:
Bear in mind, if you happen to encounter a small patch of ice within the lifeless of winter whereas driving your bicycle in New York Metropolis, instantly dismount, then lie right down to evenly distribute your physique weight and slowly crawl throughout it. As for the bike, you’ll have to only go away that behind, since going again for it’s clearly far too treacherous.
Or, you possibly can journey a bicycle with a really lengthy wheelbase when it’s icy out, which is what I do:
Due to Rivendell’s lengthy chainstays, except you encounter a glacier, the probabilities that each your wheels will ever be on ice on the similar time are about the identical as your probabilities of getting kicked within the head by a horse.
