Maybe the driver should have been charged in this case (it's hard to tell given the shitty description), but as for the "par for the course" article you linked, it was from almost a year ago and clearly the cab driver was not at fault, so why would he have been charged?

"article you linked, it was from almost a year ago and clearly the cab driver was not at fault, so why would he have been charged?"

Do you think reason and facts matter to the propagandists on gothamist, with their silly mission that they think they are going to rid the world of cars?

facts - why don't you pay the old lady in the hospital a visit? Tell her what just happened to her was a case of "propaganda". I'm sure she and her family will be very receptive.

I promise to do that as soon as you have the decency and honor to pay a visit to Nancy Gruskin, the widow of Stuart Gruskin, who was killed by a cyclist riding the wrong direction, and apologize to widow Gruskin for all the vehicular laws that you and you fellow cycling zealots violate on an constant basis.

The woman last night was accidentally hit by a driver swerving to avoid an accident on the roadway. The cyclist who killed poor Stuart Gruskin was willfully and deliberately violating the law, like so many cyclist do.

In a ten-minute walk today, I encountered 5 cyclists on the sidewalk, and God knows how many going opposite the flow of traffic - the same behavior that killed Stuart Gruskin. What are you, Drewo, doing about that epidemic?

Would you like Mrs. Gruskin's contact information in order that you can pay your respects?

If not, STFU.

hey facts, i'm the future calling. you're dead, you crusty old man. the rest of us are riding bikes.

Jim, I'm the present calling.

If they best thing you can do on a Saturday night at 2 o'clock in the morning is troll on me, you're as good as dead = you have no life, you have no present, you're a pathetic loser.

Wassa matter, have you no friends to party with, no lover, no family, don't get laid enough?

Just you and your keyboard alone in your room at 2am? How sad.

All sane commenters should do themselves a favor and ignore thefacts. He's nothing more than an anti-bike zealot with a long, sad history of total idiocy. I don't know why he even continues to visit Gothamist, considering the site's subversive agenda to rid the city of cars *rolls eyes*

In short, don't feed the troll!

Thanks for feeding the troll. LOL

You give others orders you don't obey yourself! Such hypocrisy! Or, perhaps you just like bossing people around. What is it?

Plus, your personal, ad hominem attacks reflect other cycling whack-jobs here, who have no reasonable arguments against my assertions, so revert to childish name-calling to try to prove their point, thus further weakening their argument.

Grow up, little girl, grow up.

And the phrases "little girl" and "whack job" aren't an ad hominem attack?

Right back at you with the hypocrisy! LOL

Oh, I see. You can dish it out, but you can't take it.

Like the little schoolyard bully.

Why am I not surprised?

You start throwing shit, you'll get shit thrown right back at you. I learned at an early age how to handle bullies.

Welcome to the real world.

Be nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Capice?

Trust "thefacts" to dig up the one fatal pedestrian accident caused by a bicycle in recent history, the better to further his anti-bike agenda. Only a complete lunatic/asswipe/zealot would suddenly bring bicycles into the discussion where previously there was no mention.

The link may not have been timely, but it is "par for the course" that a driver is not charged. Please show me a recent incident like this where the driver was charged. The only time there may be charges is if the driver is found to be drunk or impaired (if breathalyzer tests are administered right away - which is not always the case), or driving without proper license, permit or insurance, or if the driver is speeding or committing some kind of moving violation.

In this kind of case, the incident is dismissed as an "accident", where, with a just a little bit of investigating by the NYPD, it may be determined to be gross negligence or assault with a vehicle, or some kind of moving violation. But the NYPD is lazy, and the NYPD rank-and-file see the world through their windshield - not from the perspective of a pedestrian.

Either way you have an old lady in a hospital and a driver who is dusted off and excused. This should not be acceptable in a first-world, civilized society.

drewo: I don't contest that, but the example used was a horrible one.