Re: Good kid dies biking on Manhattan Bridge

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:16:39 -0500, "Bellsouth Ijit 2.0 - Global
Warming Edition ®" <bjit@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/11/18/2007-11-18_son_of_brooklyn_brewery_owner_27_killed_-1.html
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>>>Apparently, there was drinking involved and honking cars. Those
combined
>>>with gaps in the lanes and night time made for a deadly combination.
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>> NA$CAR ***** Power killed him.
>>
>> WTF were those morons honking for if not to threaten, menace and
>> force the cyclists off the road?
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>It's tragic, but they were riding on motorized vehicle only level.  I
used 
>to commute over Manhattan bridge bike path all the time, but riding in 
>traffic over the bridge AT NIGHT would be near suicidal. 

According to the cited article the bike path was obstructed by
construction.

I would expect that an alternate route would be provided by an
adequately marked detour. I think he made a poor decision but I'm not
familiar with the cir***stances.

I can appreciate that motor vehicle operators were not expecting to
see bicycles on the road.

However, that doesn't excuse their behaviour when they did encounter
the bicyclists. Their automobile uberalis attitude has replaced civil
society and contributed to this untimely death.
-- 
zk