Posted on 09/19/2009 5:54:37 PM PDT by CaptRon
TOWN OF GREENBURGH - Town Supervisor Paul Feiner is suggesting to the Greenburgh river villages (Hastings, Dobbs Ferry, Irvington, Tarrytown) and to officials in the other Hudson River communities (Yonkers, Ossining, Sleepy Hollow, Croton, Briarcliff Manor, Cortlandt, Buchanan and Peekskill ) that they consider placing bicycle sharing racks near the Hudson River or at train stations in their communities.
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Feiner is a bicyclist and has cycled from Hartsdale to Washington DC in the past to promote federal initiatives to encourage safe cycling.
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This in in Westchester County, New York.
FREE BIKES!!! Oh brother....
Yeah right!!!! Most of those bikes will be on the rails, with the tires off.
Well, ya know how all homeless people seem to have their very own shopping cart? ONce this plan is implemented, all homeless people will suddenly all have bicycles too.
Cool! Aluminum recycling! New bike accessory businesses with a ready supply of inventory!
Bicycling is a very hazardous avocation, particularly on city streets with other larger vehicles of all sorts, pedestrians, and irregularities in the street surfaces from Belgian block to pot-holes.
You should have good medical insurance in force before you even think about bicycling to work.
You are absolutely right.
One of my colleagues broke his neck on his bike. A life flight saved him. He now has several ounces of high-tech metal holding his bones together. Lesson learned? None. He is still on the bike.
I broke my leg on my bike, about $2,000 worth but I am back on it. No problem as I don't have to pedal. It has a motor.
Nuff said. I'm suprised he's not providing free unicorns at these stations.
I learned not to play in the street by the time I was 4 years old.
I’ve come to the conclusion that Democrats make proposals based on their high opinions of themselves and conclude that everone else will naturally agree.
You are correct of course, but that certainly doesn’t apply to me.
I read somewhere in the last year or so about a similar public bicycle plan in Paris, France.
Gubmint purchased 1,000 bikes for use by “the people”, expensive bikes, like $700 Euros per. Within several months, there were no working bikes left. 80% stolen, 10% vandalized beyond repair and the remainder unusable because no one was hired to maintain them.
I was certainly not suggesting that it did. If you took it that way I apologize. I was speaking of the Greenburgh Supervisor.
No problem.
This guy is talking about “cheap” bikes. Of course, cheap is in the eye of the payor, but I have visions of people dropping dead of heart attacks riding Huffy one gear bikes with coaster brakes.
The likelihod per mile of a death, when traveling by bicycle, is 3.4 times higher than when driving a car.
The likelihood per mile of a death, when traveling by motorcycle, is 27 times higher than when driving a car.
The percentage of cyclists killed, who were breaking the law at the time of their deaths, is about 65%, with fully 25% having been intoxicted at the time.
If one is willing to obey the law, and not cycle drunk, it can be as safe or safer then traveling by car, and vastly safer than traveling by motorcycle.
That said, the bicycle sharing idea is a socialist BS scheme.
But...but...but...it MUST be RIGHT! It’s healthy; it saves Gaia; and the SUPERVISOR does it!
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