Last night the Baltimore City Council
the city's first-ever Cyclists Bill of Rights, a collection of "tenets" validating the rights of bikers, and reaffirming that cycling is, yes, a very good thing for the city. It states:
Well, good luck with
that
, Baltimore. No. 12 seems pretty doable, but every other "right" enumerated here is violated on a daily basis in the city. And will continue to be violated every day. Undereducated, unsupportive cops; one of two commuter rail systems in the country that bans bikes; oh my, the fear; insufficient road space still full of parallel drainage grates; bike lanes that just start and stop randomly or
. We could go on. Come to think of it, a bill of rights with no actual action behind it, full of by-definition toothless tenets, could even be construed as insulting. But it's
something
, so we'll be happy about it and rest knowing that Baltimore's City Council is remotely aware of other cities'
. And that other cities' progressive people
Baltimore is a shithole. Maybe this will change their minds. Full text
.
