A COOL AND LOGICAL ANALYSIS OF THE BICYCLE MENACE: Admit it, cyclists: We must do better.

The report late last month that a 67-year-old woman walking in a crosswalk across 57th St. suffered a skull fracture and fell into a coma after being hit by a bicyclist who ran a red light is a grim reminder of a truth I’ve resisted: Some cyclists in New York are posing a public safety risk.

Even as the number of cyclists, bike lanes and proposed additional lanes have reached an all-time high, and even though cars overall remain a much greater risk to life and limb, in far too many cases, bikes have not been safely integrated into the flow of cars and pedestrians.

I write as someone who has commuted to work by bike for (really!) more than 50 years. That’s meant innumerable car doors opened right in front of me; getting hit from behind while stopped at a light (sent me to the ER); and all sorts of driver insults. Through it all, I’ve remained hardcore pro-biking.

But there’s no getting around the fact that with the increase in cycling in this dense city — by commuters, Citi Bike renters and delivery cyclists, some of whom zip around on motorized ebikes — so, too, has traffic chaos in the city increased. It takes but a short walk around Midtown to spot cyclists going the wrong way on one-way streets, speeding through red lights, failing to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks, sometimes all at the same time.

If only there was another transportation option.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCt7T20N07U

(Classical reference in headline.)