“Up until now it was ok to physically assault bicyclists there?”
Yes, it used to be Justice. I get a $400 ticket and Traffic School for rolling through a stopsign, bicyclists don’t, so to balance it, we could pull cycle people off their bikes and rough them up. Compassionately, of course.
Now I go to jail for flipping a cyclist off when he rides three abreast on a two lane street.
That could be painful, inasmuch as I carry when I bicycle.
What about all those a-hole drivers who cut off bicyclists or who open doors directly in their paths? Happens all the time to me here in New York City.