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In a decision that is sure to please some Detroit visitors, the Detroit City Council voted this week to allow people to drink alcohol on pedal pubs, those unusual-looking quadricycles found in cities nationwide. Until now, pedal pub customers who drank alcoholic beverages while on the cycles could have been cited for disorderly conduct under a 1984 ordinance. The newly amended ordinance mimics a state law passed in 2015 that defines commercial quadricycles as nonmotorized vehicles and thus subject to less onerous regulation. “It’s definitely been a long road, but Stephen and I are pumped that Detroit City Council worked...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Some feel it is oppressive when police officers in New York arrest people for seemingly minor offenses like cycling on a sidewalk. And although these types of arrests are down dramatically, there is a move in the City Council to decriminalize low-level offenses like littering, fare evasion, public drinking, public urination, cycling on a sidewalk and loitering after hours in a city park. Supporters of the plan say they should be treated like parking violations, not crimes. In Park Slope, just eight people were arrested for sidewalk cycling from 2008 to 2011, but there were more...