Why does Bloomberg hate my bike?

The New York Department of Transportation just posted signs on both of my neighborhood bridges that require me to "dismount and walk" my bike, in essence, doubling my commute and turning me into a pedestrian.

I'm a responsible bicyclist. You won't see me out there running down old ladies on my bike (well, not nice old ladies) and terrorizing rollerbladers.

In a ten-mile radius around my 'hood, I believe there's only one bike lane. It spans about a mile. There's bike lanes on the Williamsburg bridge, but they're covered in huge, nasty speedbumps that give you spinal compressions and make getting up that incline an exercise in anger management.

That bites. In a city as polluted and congested as this, wouldn't you think they'd encourage bicycles? Wouldn't you think they'd make it safer and easier for all the delivery drivers and little worker bees who -- compared to all those cars -- take up a tenth of the space and create none of the carbon monoxide?

No. They're sending city workers and the police force out to impound illegally parked bikes and erect bike restrictions rather than spending the same money to plan bike routes and set up sanctioned bike parking zones. How shameful! How short-sighted! How sad!