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MichaelBluejay

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Bicyclist gets ticket for asking police to not block a bike path

I'm on the East Coast at the moment, where bicyclists face their own kinds of problems.  For example, here's video of a cyclist asking an officer to not block the bike path, and so the cop gives him a ticket for running a red light (although he didn't):

     http://gothamist.com/2012/07/20/video_c … blocki.php

And here are police parking in a bike lane while they go have dinner:

     http://gothamist.com/2011/05/06/cops_pa … ergenc.php

Finally, a police officer parks his car in the bike lane, and then tickets cyclists who have to go around him for not riding in the bike lane:

     http://gothamist.com/2010/10/27/cop_blo … t_cycl.php