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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9cSxEqKQ78&feature=related
worried for future of racing at fbf http://www.rpa.org/floydbennett/FBF-Task-Force-Recommendations.pdf
key language in the report:
“Finally, tenants
and users of FBF should be appropriate to the setting and mission of a National Park. Uses that do not fit
within this framework should be scaled back and eventually removed”
It’s not clear at this point whether or not bike racing fits into this framework. There’s a certainly a precedent for bike racing in NYC parks, but the National Parks Service is a different animal.
On the other hand, a bunch of parks types recommending that the NYPD et al be evicted may make this a very long term prospect, if not a total non-starter.