NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 04: A cyclist rides in Central Park on April 4, 2011 in New York City. Central Park, long a center point to Manhattan`s burgeoning cycling community, has become ground zero of a battle between the New York Police Department (NYPD) and riders as the police have begun issuing tickets to cyclists for both speeding and not stopping at traffic lights. The NYPD has issued 230 tickets to cyclists for over $200 between Jan. 1 and March 15 of this year. The riders are beginning to fight back with a Facebook group and appeals to New York`s Mayor Michael Bloomberg to set traffic lights to “blinking yellow” during off-peak hours. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Photo: Spencer Platt/2011 Getty Images
Based on statistics released in an annual court report, the NYPD is much more likely to issue a ticket to someone riding a bike on a sidewalk than to someone speeding on a surface street. Streets Blog, which noticed the figures, points out that 51,186 of the 71,305 speeding tickets issued in the city in 2012 came from the highway patrol, while 19,119 came from the NYPD, which patrols surface streets. They issued some 28,000 bicycle-on-sidewalk tickets, though the precise number is hard to glean from the report’s bar graph. Since DOT puts speeding as the leading cause of traffic deaths, that’s ratherunsettling.
Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, has died at 99
It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
A disappointing showing so far for the union drive at the Amazon plant in Bessemer
With about half the ballots counted late Thursday, votes against unionization had a more than 2-to-1 advantage over those in favor, according to a live broadcast of the counting that was tallied by The New York Times. When the counting paused, there were 1,100 votes against unionization and 463 in support.
The union said there were 3,215 ballots cast, from 55 percent of the 5,805 eligible voters at the warehouse, in the closely watched election. The union must get support from more than half of the votes cast to prevail.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam (D) has endorsed former governor Terry McAuliffe’s (D) bid to return to the job – from which McAuliffe once called upon Northam to resign.https://t.co/IUSZ0yEVJ2