De Blasio Menaces Bike Riders

In the end, no one is safe from progressive hyperregulation, not even those who may expect to be championed at everyone else’s expense — like bike riders, who are normally smiled upon by authoritarian moonbats for shunning hated cars.

The Daily Snooze reports from the moonbat dystopia of New York:

Mayor de Blasio on Wednesday said he was considering requiring bike riders to be licensed, and even pitched the idea of forcing Citi Bike renters to wear helmets.

Also, de Blasio says he will crack down on bike riders who violate traffic laws.

Even as Big Government takes a hammer to your knee with one hand, it hands you a crutch paid for by someone else with the other:

De Blasio in July announced a $58.4 million plan to rapidly expand the city’s network of protected bike lanes — the city Department of Transportation will hire 80 new staffers to help implement the plan.

Maybe another 80 overpaid bureaucrats will help counter the effect of licensing and registration requirements. More like likely, they will have no effect other than to sink the city deeper into debt.

On tips from Sean C and Artfldgr.

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