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Transportation Department Embraces Bikes, and Business Groups Cry Foul
The New York Times ^
| March 26, 2010
| Leora Broydo Vestel
Posted on 03/27/2010 5:32:03 PM PDT by Cheap_Hessian
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To: Cheap_Hessian
Speechless...the Chinese want to become more like we once were...Capitalist, while our Government wants to turn this country into a twenty-first century version of 1970’s Maoist China...
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posted on
03/27/2010 5:35:15 PM PDT
by
Mister Muggles
(.Seattle: A city full of Liberal men with vaginas.)
To: Cheap_Hessian
Speechless...the Chinese want to become more like we once were...Capitalist, while our Government wants to turn this country into a twenty-first century version of 1970’s Maoist China...
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posted on
03/27/2010 5:35:15 PM PDT
by
Mister Muggles
(.Seattle: A city full of Liberal men with vaginas.)
To: Cheap_Hessian
Yupo, that makes great sense . Open up the roads to foot traffic like they do in any African third world nation.... a small step for man and a huge step backwards for mankind!
You cant make this crap up!!!
To: Cheap_Hessian
I thought this was a parody, but it's real.
To: himno hero
America is in trouble. Recent news of Japan and Bill Gates joining to design backyard nukes to provide power for a hundred years between refueling. Meanwhile, US is building windmills.
To: Cheap_Hessian
the obot is a complete loon. Walking and biking are completely unpractical. So, you think you are going to walk or bike in Houston in the summer? Lots of luck with that and I don’t care how much you spend on walking paths - you’ll be dead from heat stroke and if not, you’ll be unfit for work if you manage to get there. Maybe carry your groceries home? Sour milk anyone?
Try a bike in Chicago during the winter?
Most locations in the US are small towns and rural. Cars and trucks are the mood of transportation and no goofball marxist has the power to change reality.
To: Cheap_Hessian
Imagine big tri-cycles pulling trailers as the way food will be delivered in the future.
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posted on
03/27/2010 5:46:34 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(All politicians are POS. Some are just piled higher and smell worse.)
To: Cheap_Hessian
Riiight... We’re all going to be on bikes while we pay for them to be in limos. These people are lunatics who need to be committed for everyone’s own good.
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posted on
03/27/2010 5:50:29 PM PDT
by
rbosque
(11 year Freeper! A true American is an armed American.)
To: hinckley buzzard
Well, I can see Obama using bicycles to solve numerous problems...
Michelle’s anti-obesity initiatives, green energy by attaching a bike to a generator, and this transportation policy to reduce traffic. It’s like a win-win-win!
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posted on
03/27/2010 5:51:10 PM PDT
by
Cheap_Hessian
(I am the Grim FReeper.)
To: Cheap_Hessian
The only thing worse than a Marxist-committed Democrat is a (formerly conservative) Republican who sells out to Obama.
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posted on
03/27/2010 5:51:17 PM PDT
by
BobL
To: rbosque
Don’t forget Nancy and her jet!
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posted on
03/27/2010 5:51:47 PM PDT
by
Cheap_Hessian
(I am the Grim FReeper.)
To: Cheap_Hessian
The way the economy’s going, I wouldn’t be surprised to see people riding horses again.
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posted on
03/27/2010 5:52:50 PM PDT
by
AZLiberty
(Yes, Mr. Lennon, I do want a revolution.)
To: Cheap_Hessian
"Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has announced a major policy revision that aims to give bicycling and walking the same policy and economic consideration as driving. "
OK, fine.
So when do bikers and walkers start buying tags? Who will pay for the road construction and maintenence on "their" throughfares if they don't register their mode of transportation, and display registration tags?
Drivers pay state gasoline taxes to help finance roads and road repairs, will the bikers and walkers be assess a fee for their contribution?
Bikers in their little spandex panties are already a bunch of arrogant little twerps pretending to be Lance Armstrong while taking up over half of the automobile lane and daring you to pass them.
I say if the non-motorized types don't have to help construct and maintain the roadways with taxes, then the motorized vehicles should not have to either.
I don't think all of LaHood's cylinders are firing...
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posted on
03/27/2010 5:52:55 PM PDT
by
FrankR
(Those of us who love AMERICA far outnumber those who love obama - your choice.)
To: Cheap_Hessian
Does that mean bicyclists will pay the same for their license plates?
hh
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posted on
03/27/2010 5:56:57 PM PDT
by
hoosier hick
(Note to RINOs: We need a choice, not an echo....Barry Goldwater)
To: Cheap_Hessian
OK. Government employees go first.
Including IRS agents and Census takers.
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posted on
03/27/2010 5:57:37 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(The Last Boy Scout)
To: Cheap_Hessian
"and you should keep your tires aired up fully to help save on energy".
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posted on
03/27/2010 6:00:14 PM PDT
by
UCANSEE2
(The Last Boy Scout)
To: Cheap_Hessian
I suggest that the politicians in D.C. lead by example. Get rid of the private jets, limos, SUV motorcades, etc. and ride bikes instead.
To: Cheap_Hessian
The only way children can have safe walking and biking paths is if pedophiles aren’t allowed to roam about.
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posted on
03/27/2010 6:09:54 PM PDT
by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: Mister Muggles
When I was in China in 1998, I was surprised at the large numbers of bicycles, many of which appeared vintage. The Chinese rode the bicycles through all types of weather, even pulling large loads. I never dreamed that I was looking at the USSA in 2020.
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