Sentence examples for ticketing cyclists from inspiring English sources

Ms. Shahum contends that ticketing cyclists misses the real danger.

In the past months, the police have stepped up enforcement on the loop, ticketing cyclists for running red lights or riding the wrong way on the park drive.

During a period from late November, after the task force held its last public hearing, until mid-December, park officers and the police issued 102 tickets to cyclists for running red lights, and 49 tickets for going the wrong way.

The police department also needs to give more tickets to cyclists who break the law.

Finally, your point about the difficulty of giving tickets to cyclists who break the law is well taken.

Through the first half of this year, the police issued 15,957 tickets to cyclists across the city, 13,632 of them for riding on the sidewalk.

Mr. Conroy said he would like to see those types of violations end up in his class, but that would mean changing the way the police write up tickets for cyclists.

After receiving a ticket, offending cyclists then have the option to take a bike education class (much like the increasingly popular ones offered by the Coalition) instead of having to pay the full fine.

News coverage has focused on the immediate issues generated by the stampede to bicycles: pedestrian-vs.-cyclist wars in some neighborhoods; the sudden discovery by the police that cyclists can be ticketed just as motorists are.

Ticketing stings, defiant cyclists, and besieged communities reflect a struggle to manage it.

And so, the year of the ticketing blitz for cyclists has come full circle, finishing in Prospect Park what began in Central Park during the winter.