Posted on 08/27/2023 4:33:00 AM PDT by MtnClimber
It may seem like small potatoes at a time of political lawfare, gross government mismanagement leading to at least 1,000 dead in Maui, the prospect of continuing war in Ukraine, and high inflation, but the government’s use of its powers to beset us on a daily basis and make life more expensive, less efficient, and more dreary is evident every day. Two things that come to mind -- and there are, I concede, many more -- are urban bike lanes and administrative fiddling with everything from light bulbs to home appliances. In my neighborhood we have an online site, Next Door, which I avoid like the plague as it is a bulletin board for dimwitted Karens and organized leftists. The last time I went there, I questioned the merit of setting aside bike lanes on the few major thoroughfares in our city. Because of the siting of historic buildings in D.C., widening traffic lanes is quite impossible.
City leaders set aside a major lane for a streetcar which cost a fortune, travels but a few blocks and that no one uses. Adding bike lanes to all this makes traffic even more congested and slower moving, spewing more fumes into the air, and encourages drivers to seek alternate routes through the city which were not meant to carry a lot of traffic. The Bikeazis (my term for an organized group of pro biking people entitled because of their self-anointed moral objection to cars) struck. About the same time they were attacking my objection, the city created a bike lane in a near neighborhood without consulting the people who lived there. Residents banded together and succeeded in getting it dismantled. Not surprisingly they objected to the large stream of drivers diverting unto the narrow roads not meant to handle such traffic...
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It seems that the appropriate response would be called a “Failure to Stop Drill”.
Clarice ping
What if we are ankle biters and that’s what we do?
and more than likely votes for the same people being complained about. which makes me wonder if the chronic complaining democrats seem to thrive on is what drives them to vote for democrats that they know will perpetually install even more things to complain about. a cycle that repeats over and over. have to stop thinking about it now. getting dizzy.
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All that stuff is by design.
It is called ROAD DIET and it aim is to force people to travel less!
Clogging up the streets, taking away traffic lines, dismantling freeways and similar actions are supposed to make driving miserable.
As such, in theory, the people will stop driving cars and jump in the busses or onto bikes and SAVE the EARTH!!!
Obviously, this idea was created by some young woke idiot, but it is entering the woke mainstream. Buttigieg and urban planers are seriously incorporating it!
There is a bike lane in Battle Creek, Michigan on Emmett St. Parking is next to the curb, then 4 feet of bike lane, then traffic flow. I wouldn’t take a bike on that for nothing.
The republican’ts are too busy grabbing their ankles to even think about doing anything else.
“The republican’ts are too busy grabbing their ankles to even think about doing anything else.”
We have a winner!
Well put .
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