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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Cycling and social policy
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On 5/31/2025 8:19 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
> On 5/31/2025 11:10 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>> https://nypost.com/2025/05/30/opinion/lefties-pro-migrant- 
>> push-back-on- tischs-e-bike-crackdown-is-obscene/
> 
> The New York Post trades heavily in sensationalism and 
> political divisiveness.
> 
> Here was the main point in the New York Times article I 
> linked on this issue: "Cyclists who blow through red lights 
> without endangering anyone else can now be forced to appear 
> in court. Drivers who commit the same violation cannot." As 
> I presently noted here, immigrants, legal or not, were 
> barely mentioned. Complaints centered around the fact that 
> bikes or ebikes are a tiny portion of pedestrian risk - 
> motor vehicles are far, far more dangerous - but motoring 
> offenses are treated far more lightly.
> 
> And regarding the incident linked within your NYP article 
> regarding a 3-year-old girl getting knocked down when she 
> ran into a protected bike lane: Both the article describing 
> it and the bulk of reader comments faulted the design of the 
> bike lane, not the fact that it was an ebike. If there was 
> _any_ mention of immigrants, it was minor. (I'm one of those 
> who think that facility design is nuts.)
> 
> Finally, let's please remember that most immigrants are 
> legal. Many do take low paying jobs, including things like 
> food delivery, but that does not make them into illegals.
> 

I found the 'discrimination toward illegals' argument 
interesting in a macabre sort of way.

And yes, I agree with you that most foreigners here are 
legally present. I am a strong proponent of clarity to 
distinguish among newly naturalized citizens, temporary visa 
holders, resident aliens and illegal aliens. Conflating 
those is dishonest if not pernicious.

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Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
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