We’ve acquired 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 Put up is masking it for 2 causes. The primary purpose in fact is the horse puns:
I’ve neigh drawback with that.
And the second purpose is that it’s a chance for the Put up to make cyclists appear to be whiners and “woosies:”
The terribly distant likelihood you would possibly get kicked within the head by a horse in New York Metropolis is but another excuse you need to at all times put on that helment, identical 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 prone to get kicked within the head by a fixie rider doing that leg-over-the-handlebar monitor bike mounting factor than by a horse, so I’m doing my half by decreasing the bar, each actually and metaphorically.
As for the horse carriage drivers, they too have clearly realized that when accused of something you need to at all times level the finger at ebikes:
In fact horses do often go rogue:
Rattling brakeless horses.
Extra 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 purpose that there are so few horses. Issues had been quite a bit completely 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 not less than one politician from attempting 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 trying ahead to his new “Cease The Trot, For A Bike You Are Not” marketing campaign.
As for 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 useless 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, until you encounter a glacier, the possibilities that each your wheels will ever be on ice on the similar time are about the identical as your possibilities of getting kicked within the head by a horse.
