According to the Gothamist:

The NYPD has been justifiably criticized for their massive cycling crackdown this year—there’s been a record-breaking number of summonses given out to cyclists as part of “Operation Safe Cycle”, including tickets for such non-violations as riding a bike with a tote bag on the handlebars and not wearing a helmet. But a cop threatening to ticket a woman for riding while wearing a skirt? Even for the NYPD, that’s just too absurd to be real…except according to one woman, it wasn’t.

Read the whole story at http://gothamist.com

Operation Safe?  Sounds like a program to educate cyclists about the attitude of motorists: ” I’m DRIVING HERE ! “

Regarding the war between motorists & cyclists: It is gonna get worse before it gets better. Education is a learning process; it’s our responsibility to bring the teach’n to them.

Apparently the officer was just trying to make a little time.  Can you blame’em?

Yo! Tortuga: looks like a kit possibility.