(Before you read the following story, here's an update on Priya Nanda, who killed Max Vickers. She spent literally 5 mins. behind bars and never did enter medical school as she told the court she was going to do. (She did have her license suspended for three years.))

Really the only thing noteworthy about the following story--just another hit-and-run driver/killer of a cyclist (this one in Baltimore)-- is that it was on the front page of the New York Times online last evening and remains there again this morning. It's on page A11 in print--a far longer and more prominent story than is run about local Deaths by Driver, the sensational reason being the driver was a drunk bishop. Non-ecclesiastical drunks and sober killer-drivers just aren't as newsworthy.

http://www.streetsblog.org/2015/01/09/dot-proposes-riverside-drive-traffic-calming-but-not-bike-lanes/

The plan as currently designed results in a net gain of six parking spaces, but some community board members wanted more. “We need to be finding extra spaces to take care of people who are not well enough off to have a garage and the luxury of a garage,” said CB 9 member Ted Kovaleff, who asked that DOT add angled parking to 116th and 120th Streets to squeeze in more cars...

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/07/how-exercise-keeps-us-young/?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad

The single-digit wind chill forecast for Saturday scared us off....

Here's hoping that Sunday is balmy.

When - Thursday, January 15, 2015 @ 7:00PM

Heads up that the article is in dutch and the site will require you to subscribe if you view more than once.

http://www.telegraaf.nl/premium/telesport/tour-de-france-2014/22858814/_...

Suggest a quick copy paste of text into an online translator.

https://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=wT

It was a clear and bright spring morning in central Mississippi. Jan Morgan and her cycling buddy Kim Richardson were riding along the edge of a two-lane highway, training for an upcoming triathlon in Florida. Both wore helmets. It was Sunday and traffic was slow on a rare flat stretch of State Highway 50. That’s when Richardson heard the rumble of an approaching car.

Dear NYCC friends,

The cycling season has begun anew, so it's time for my biannual reminder to visit my site, NYC Car Crash Resources, at http://NycCarAccident.net.

This not-for-profit site details your right to medical care under the NYS No-Fault law if ever struck by a car -- as a cyclist or pedestrian. And it explains the steps needed to obtain it.

These steps include, importantly:

1) Noting the license plate number. (Write it down or ask a passerby to. I recite the numbers out loud over and over until I can write them down.)