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New York Bike-Share Program Bans ‘Fat’ People
Opposing Views ^
| 05/02/2013
| Lauren Schiff
Posted on 05/02/2013 1:54:17 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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To: Responsibility2nd
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posted on
05/02/2013 2:17:24 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
(If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat. - Reagan)
To: Responsibility2nd
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posted on
05/02/2013 2:21:06 PM PDT
by
Doogle
(USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Lady Jag
Hahahahaha ... good one! :)
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posted on
05/02/2013 2:21:48 PM PDT
by
mlizzy
(If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic adoration, abortion would be ended. --Mother Teresa)
To: RedStateGuyTrappedinCT
Speaking of Mooch...
She don't care about no fat person ban. She'll fly in her own bike.
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posted on
05/02/2013 2:22:05 PM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
To: andyk
That’s the outrageous part of this. Its not whether or not fat people can ride the bikes. Its that the government is using freakin’ taxpayer money to run this boondoggle. Let me make a prediction: fat people riding won’t be much of an issue because these bikes will be stolen or destroyed within short order.
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posted on
05/02/2013 2:22:39 PM PDT
by
Opinionated Blowhard
("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
To: mlizzy
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posted on
05/02/2013 2:25:10 PM PDT
by
Lady Jag
(If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat. - Reagan)
To: Responsibility2nd
bike? I thought she used a broom... or was that her wife...
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posted on
05/02/2013 2:26:23 PM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
we should call them bloomycycles.
somebody is making a few crony dollars off of this joke.
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posted on
05/02/2013 2:27:22 PM PDT
by
longtermmemmory
(VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_sharing_system
The initial 30 bicycles placed into service for the Orange Bike Project were all stolen within a few weeks.[40] A total of 80 bicycles were eventually used in the Orange Bike Project, all of which were either stolen or vandalised beyond repair.[40] In one case, an Orange Bike Project bicycle was thrown in front of a freight train, in others, bikes were found with major frame damage consistent with deliberate vandalism.[40] The program was terminated after only five months of operation.[39][40]
To: RedStateGuyTrappedinCT; freedumb2003; All
Don’t you know that African women have big butts for a heredity survival reason. Overweight protects against starvation. Putting it all on the rear protects the rest of the body from overheating. If you see a picture of Michelle you will see her arms are not fat.
Regarding the weight limit. By signing the contract, the rider swears he/she is not over 260 lbs. I don’t know if they ever see the person. If they are very heavy and then get in an accident/damage the bike with overweight, then they are liable and the bike company is not. I can imagine a 300 pounder roaring down a hill could be very dangerous to both himself and others and the bike.
To: SIDENET
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posted on
05/02/2013 2:30:50 PM PDT
by
musicman
(Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
To: JRandomFreeper
You have space to store the bike when you’re not using it. The issue with a lot of NYC apartments is one of having to store the bike in the shower or on the fire escape.
Might be cheaper to rent than replacing bike after bike that’s stolen.
To: Responsibility2nd
19-year-old Juleissy Lantigua agrees: “That’s bogus,” she says. “260 pounds isn’t going to break the bike. To me, that’s discrimination. And I’m not easily offended!” it's not discrimination. it's physics.
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posted on
05/02/2013 2:35:55 PM PDT
by
TurboZamboni
(Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
To: Opinionated Blowhard
fat people riding won’t be much of an issue because these bikes will be stolen or destroyed within short order.
You got that right.
Read:
Springtime for Bloomberg
Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog ^ | Wednesday, May 01, 2013 | Daniel Greenfield
Posted on Thursday, May 02, 2013 7:29:46 AM by Louis Foxwell
Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog
Spring is in the air, which in New York means that it's time to launch the bike-share program. The bike-share program, which stacks racks of bikes out in the street in the hope that eveyone will stop driving cars and rent bikes instead, failed in Paris, Melbourne and Montreal. But Mr. Bloomberg is not about to stop his wars on obesity and global warming long enough to let the failure of a senseless program everywhere else slow down his bid to implement it.
In Paris,
80 percent of the bicycles were stolen. Some ended up in Africa and Eastern Europe. But surely that won't happen in a law-abiding place like Gotham.
Citibike, better known as a plan to stock Craiglist with secondhand bikes at taxpayer expense, was supposed to launch last summer, but the software developed by the Montreal parking authority didn't work. In only two years, the Montreal taxpayer funded company and its bike share plan had managed to get into enough financial trouble to
require a 108 million dollar bailout. But then the big contracts from Chicago and New York City arrived and in a fortuitous coincidence, the Chicago Department of Transportation intern who
wrote up the proposal was hired and given a top position in the company.
more....
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posted on
05/02/2013 2:35:56 PM PDT
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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posted on
05/02/2013 2:48:05 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(The Palin Doctrine.)
To: Responsibility2nd
I’m trying to envision the long line of 260 lb + waiting to ride their bikes .... but in NYC the His High and Mightiness might have banned them from public transportation and ordered them onto an exercise program.
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posted on
05/02/2013 2:56:46 PM PDT
by
RetiredTexasVet
(You don't have to be stupid to become a Progressive, but it does speed up the process.)
To: Responsibility2nd
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posted on
05/02/2013 3:03:41 PM PDT
by
Gator113
( ~just keep livin~ I drink good wine, listen to good music and dream good dreams.)
To: Gator113
Fat Bottom Girls = Fat Bottomed Girls....details, details. ;>)
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posted on
05/02/2013 3:05:08 PM PDT
by
Gator113
( ~just keep livin~ I drink good wine, listen to good music and dream good dreams.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Quite a few things have limits of 250 pounds. Some ladders: one example of many. Maybe some bikes are built tougher than others. Wouldn’t want someone well over the weight limit to get hurt, and there are other good ways to exercise. Swimming is great for those who can swim.
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posted on
05/02/2013 3:27:43 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
To: andyk
Ya think the Fuhrer would have welcomed all these political vermin into his inner circle??
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In Paris, 80 percent of the bicycles were stolen. Some ended up in Africa and Eastern Europe. But surely that won't happen in a law-abiding place like Gotham.