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Internet Endangers Big-City Tradition: The Bike Messenger

wired.com — The click of a Send button is undermining the bike-messaging trade. In the last two years, three messaging companies in San Francisco have folded. Courier service Bucky's of Seattle trashed its bike fleet last year. And there are nearly 1,000 fewer bike messengers in New York than a decade ago.

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  • acrodev, on 07/25/2008, -0/+2Does anyone who isn't a bike messenger think this is a bad thing? I'm all for bikes and particularly biking commuters, but most messengers in Manhattan are a danger to pedestrians and rarely follow traffic laws.
  • gavinhudson, on 07/25/2008, -0/+1If anything, I think the internet is actually making the bike messenger into an urban hero. They're awesome.

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