New York
The most likely place to be injured, or even killed, in the Bagel is the sidewalk, any sidewalk, where bikes and scooters have free rein to mow down the old, the infirm, and those unable to perform life-saving, matador-like avoidance moves. Yep, marauding bikers use the sidewalks of New York to beat the traffic and intimidate people, and have managed to impose their illegal presence there as a beleaguered police force turn a blind eye.
It all started under the last mayor of the Bagel, one so bad that I dare not mention his name in the elegant pages of The Speccie. And it continues – but even more so – under the present mayor, a nice but incompetent ex-cop. A total disregard for the law is now acceptable, with bikers openly performing glissandos past very fat and short traffic wardens who pretend not to see them as they mow down walkers.
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