Doug — Per the article, when called the police offer little help. When stolen bikes are reported the police do not follow up. The police do not seem to recognize the cost of the bikes ($2,000 -- $3,000) or, more importantly, the importance of the bikes to the delivery people as a way to make a living.
The group in the story has been able to help one another retrieve bikes and get some shred of justice through organizing themselves! There are a few successes in the story where the group have used social media to congregate in large numbers to confront or chase down bike thieves. But these are very dangerous situations often with intense, insane and aggressive responses from thieves when confronted. While there are surveillance cameras on the bridge they are pointed at parked cars rather than pedestrian and bike thoroughfares. (The group has approached the Dept. of Transportation to have the cameras reoriented). And the area is seriously lacking in artificial light and very dark at night. Because there is inadequate infrastructure for safety and city agencies aren't offering much help (police dept. and dept. of transportation) the group have implemented a system to traverse the sketchy Willis Avenue Bridge in groups of no less than four. On Thursday, September 16, 2021 at 2:52:19 PM UTC-4 Doug H. wrote: > Who are these roving hoards of thieves? Why aren't they arrested and > prosecuted? I have no tolerance for crime especially against a vulnerable > population such as these immigrants who are trying hard to make a living. > Doug > > On Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 9:39:27 PM UTC-4 Patrick Moore wrote: > >> And without the tyranny of the sweet technologies that were supposed to >> bring us into the post-modern promised land. (Expletive deleted.) >> >> The tiffin wallahs are, if not an entire sub-caste, certainly the >> equivalent of a national professional guild; their situation, wholly sans >> IT and such unecessaries as writing, is professional and cooperative and >> --- "sustainable." >> >> On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 7:32 PM Patrick Moore <bert...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> The NY magazine is very interesting, thanks for posting the link. >>> >>> The bike messengers remind me of Washington DC in the 1980s. >>> >>> But they've been doing this in India for generations: >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabbawala >>> >>> The politically incorrect term -- I gather from the Wikipedia entry -- >>> is what I knew them as: tiffin wallahs. A hugely complex, very large-scale, >>> multi-modal transportation out and back operations, from thousands of >>> individual homes to thousands of offices and back again, dailly, with each >>> operator collecting dozens each of the tiffin boxes delivering them >>> practically error free despite the operators' generall illiteracy. The >>> first and last mile -- at least -- were by bicycle. Apparently you don't >>> need to be literate to run or be a part of huge, successful organizations >>> -- well, of course not! >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 4:53 PM John A. Bennett <jabi...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> I haven't watched this recently, so I can't remember if there is >>>> anything that's not G-Rated, >>>> language-wise, but it's a great "slice of life" from of bygone era. SF >>>> locals will recognize a >>>> young Erik Zo, the messenger bag guy. >>>> >>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6EmbaZYRn8 >>>> >>>> On Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 11:57:53 AM UTC-7 eric...@gmail.com >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> A long piece on the insanely hard-working bicycle delivery people in >>>>> NYC. Terrible wages, robberies, stabbings, lack of worker protections. >>>>> They >>>>> all ride electric Arrow bikes but you don't have to tell your friction >>>>> shifters. Great read and excellent photos by Philip Montgomery. >>>>> >>>>> https://www.curbed.com/article/nyc-delivery-workers.html >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>> Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>> an email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/0ea67539-480f-478d-ab1c-c2a92cbefcb7n%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/0ea67539-480f-478d-ab1c-c2a92cbefcb7n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Patrick Moore >>> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >>> >>> >> >> -- >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Patrick Moore >> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/b7bad3c8-693b-46a6-9869-6b1c586156dan%40googlegroups.com.
