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Greenburgh supervisor wants bike sharing program
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| 9/19/09
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Posted on 09/19/2009 5:54:37 PM PDT by CaptRon
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What could possibly go wrong with this?
This in in Westchester County, New York.
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posted on
09/19/2009 5:54:37 PM PDT
by
CaptRon
To: CaptRon
FREE BIKES!!! Oh brother....
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posted on
09/19/2009 5:56:31 PM PDT
by
TruthBeforeAll
(Honesty is like a knife... Used without love, it can do a lot of harm.)
To: CaptRon
Yeah right!!!! ..... People are going to place them back in the racks for others?????? ROFL, anyone take a look at the WalMart parking lots lately, they push those carts into cars, into the streets, anywhere except walking over to the proper racks.
Yeah right!!!! Most of those bikes will be on the rails, with the tires off.
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posted on
09/19/2009 6:01:30 PM PDT
by
annieokie
(i)
To: CaptRon
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.
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posted on
09/19/2009 6:02:27 PM PDT
by
mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: CaptRon
Cool! Aluminum recycling! New bike accessory businesses with a ready supply of inventory!
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posted on
09/19/2009 6:02:52 PM PDT
by
bgill
(The framers of the US Constitution established an entire federal government in 18 pages.)
To: CaptRon
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.
To: CaptRon
Portland, Oregon had a similar "loaner" program that was a colossal failure. Even in that liberal utopia, the libs stole the "community property" so they finally instituted a bike rental program. I think you pay with your credit card in a kiosk and return the bike to any other location.
Portland to experiment with rental bike system
To: annieokie
You are absolutely right.
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posted on
09/19/2009 6:13:03 PM PDT
by
mojo114
To: I_Like_Spam
You should have good medical insurance in forceOne 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.
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posted on
09/19/2009 6:16:14 PM PDT
by
Glenn
(Free Venezuela!)
To: Glenn
##########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.
To: CaptRon
"Paul Feiner began his career in public service at the age of l2, when he worked as a volunteer on the successful l968 Congressional campaign of Ogden Reid. At the age of 16 Paul Feiner was already fighting for quality of life improvements. As Chair of the Teen Democrats of Westchester, he persuaded the county of Westchester to open the Bronx River Parkway on Sunday for cyclists, a program that remains popular to this day."
Nuff said. I'm suprised he's not providing free unicorns at these stations.
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posted on
09/19/2009 6:31:02 PM PDT
by
CaptRon
To: CaptRon
I've come to the conclusion that we should just take the time to identify every person interested in riding a bicycle in an urban, suburban or exurban area and just pay them not to do that.
I learned not to play in the street by the time I was 4 years old.
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posted on
09/19/2009 6:53:39 PM PDT
by
elkfersupper
(Member of the Original Defiant Class)
To: elkfersupper
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.
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posted on
09/19/2009 6:58:55 PM PDT
by
CaptRon
To: CaptRon
You are correct of course, but that certainly doesn’t apply to me.
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posted on
09/19/2009 7:04:47 PM PDT
by
elkfersupper
(Member of the Original Defiant Class)
To: CaptRon
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.
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posted on
09/19/2009 7:07:29 PM PDT
by
jsh3180
To: elkfersupper
I was certainly not suggesting that it did. If you took it that way I apologize. I was speaking of the Greenburgh Supervisor.
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posted on
09/19/2009 7:11:20 PM PDT
by
CaptRon
To: CaptRon
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posted on
09/19/2009 7:11:57 PM PDT
by
elkfersupper
(Member of the Original Defiant Class)
To: jsh3180
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.
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posted on
09/19/2009 7:12:56 PM PDT
by
CaptRon
To: Glenn; Lion Den Dan
Anecdotes can be interesting, but serious decisions on traffic safety are best driven by data and facts.
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.
To: Castlebar
But...but...but...it MUST be RIGHT! It’s healthy; it saves Gaia; and the SUPERVISOR does it!
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posted on
09/19/2009 7:21:29 PM PDT
by
CaptRon
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