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"textContent": "Tokyo just dropped a whole slew of new fines for bike infractions, and while I heartily wish platoons of patrolmen would be standing by to levy massive fines on all the mamachari ebikes bombing down the sidewalk from behind… while ringing their bells to make pedestrians jump out of the way (why yes, this isContinue reading \"Bicycle Fines of Japan\"",
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