=v= The NYC tabloids, Rupert Murdoch's _New_York_Post_ in particular, have been bashing the bike-share for over a month at this point. Murdoch's _Wall_Street_Journal_ is considered a more reputable publication, though standards are more lax for the editorial pages.
=v= The interviewer/anchordroid asked a leading question about fire hazards, which is a nontroversy whipped up by the _Post_. You see, it's apparently impossible to run fire hoses past bicycles but not a problem getting them past parked cars. This was debunked by one phone call to the (ideology-maddened?) Fire Commissioner: http://www.streetsblog.org/2013/05/21/fdny-commissioner-salvatore-cassano-bike-share-racks-are-not-in-our-way/ <_Jym_> _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
