L.A. Lawmakers Listen to the Bicycling Minority

Give Angelinos one weekend of potential Carmageddon, and suddenly everyone’s all bike-happy.

Seriously. A new law passed Wednesday by Los Angeles City Council — described as “groundbreaking” by League of American Bicyclists president Andy Clarke — makes it a crime for motorists to verbally or physically harass bicyclists, and the penalties are stiff.

In a 2 million-car city — with a culture built around them — it would seem that 13,000 or so bike commuters and random cycling enthusiasts would practically go unnoticed.

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