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Brian McGrory: Make Boston bicycle-free

- As Mayor Tom Menino prepares to roll out an ambitious bicycle-sharing program on the streets of our great city this month, offering hundreds of bikes for short-term rental all across town, I might urge him to go in a slightly different direction.

(Photo: Group promoting Hubway ride through Copley Square. Globe Staff Photo/Bill Greene.)

While the columnist doesn’t really make any sense, the point is that cars are beholden to traffic laws and bicyclists aren’t. Bicyclists need to follow traffic laws like any other vehicle.