License to bike: seniors vs. peddlers.

• Author: Rosen, Armin
• Position: Citings - Brief article

ON JANUARY 14, New York City Council Member Eric Ulrich (R-Queens) announced that senior citizens in his district are terrified of cyclists. "People on bikes scare the hell out of them," Ulrich told the New York Post. He therefore wants all adult New Yorkers to register their bikes with the city.

According to Benjamin Shepard, an activist with the New York-based environmental group Time's Up!, such a policy would create more opportunities for the police to hassle cyclists. "You can't fool around with being put through the system because [the police] didn't see me signal," he says. "It's a sort of harassment." Bike registration, Shepard says, is "just another...