Licensed to Bike
Thursday, November 18, 2004 - 09:40 AM
According to Transportation Alternatives as many as 112,000 adult New Yorkers ride their bikes on any given day and up to 2 million New Yorkers own bicycles. With so many of us on two wheels City Councilwoman Madeline Provenzano has proposed a licensing scheme. Under her plan anyone over the age of 16 should have to register their bicycles or pay a $300 fine and in some cases go to jail.
In a city as congested as New York this may have its benefits if it is aided by certain additions, such as more bike lanes. But such a proposal could also harm the biking community by making it that much harder to move around the city.
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