“And so, Memorial Day 2013 will go down in New York history as the start of the 10,000-rent-a-bike revolution, the day when the masses began pedaling en masse, safely, while speeding the flow of all forms of traffic. Or.This city is on the verge of intensified gridlock and fractured unhelmeted skulls as two-wheelers attempt to claim asphalt ownership amid cars, trucks, buses and emergency vehicles that are used to having things their way, tough as it is.”
Dickens, 73, is running against incumbent Councilwoman Kirstin Richardson Jordan, Assemblyman Al Taylor and Yusef Salaam, one of the Central Park Five, for the Council seat now occupied by Richardson Jordan, who’s viewed as vulnerable.