To that end, Bloomberg appointed this woman named Janette Sadik-Khan as commissioner of the Department of Transportation. Bloomberg’s plan was to gussy up the city, presumably so it would be tolerable to him while he wasn’t at his home in Bermuda. When I stopped commuting in 2009, the mayor of New York City was this rich guy, Mike Bloomberg.

It felt like I was returning to a new metropolis, and one that I was seeing with new (or, more accurately, old) eyes. So after a 14-year hiatus, I returned to bike commuting. But riding for pleasure, and riding through the city during the morning and evening rush to the same destination on a regular basis in order to perform services in exchange for monetary compensation, are two very different experiences. That’s not to say I had left New York City or stopped riding in the interim-I didn’t, and I didn’t. Also, I started commuting by bike again in New York City for the first time since 2009, which is even more significant.

For one thing, I was coronated as king of the United Kingdom and the commonwealth realms at Westminster Abbey, which is a pretty big deal.

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