Posted on 01/19/2019 5:23:31 AM PST by reaganaut1
The funniest thing is seeing bike lanes in Newark in areas where nobody would dare to ride a bike - or walk alone. Too funny!
I’m talking about the Third Worlders, coming from areas where the mayor has the only car - not Europeans.
The problem in the DC area is mostly illegals, as both unlicensed drivers and as pedestrians who cross busy streets anywhere they wish. Hardly a week goes by without a deadly hit-and-run involving illegals.
No amount of traffic planning will stop that.
It’s not who we let in. It’s our pathetic driver training.
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Mind you, I am NOT complaining but in 2014 my license was renewed for 8 years COMPLETELY ON LINE.
Last week I went in for an ‘upgrade’ to a ‘secure’ license which required all sorts of ID, Birth Certificate etc etc etc.
The process took minutes but wasted about 3 hours because of the ‘crowds’...at least everything ‘public’ was done in English...<: <:
Anyhow, went through all that and they neglected to do an eye test...maybe it is guaged by how you act while dealing with the clerk and my license still expires in 2022 but it did seem strange.
Oh...the reason for my ‘shock & awe’ is my DOB is 1939 and it ‘scares’ me that the state would issue an 8 years license to someone that was 75, sight unseen....
BTW, I still work and drive for a living but ‘they’ don’t really know that.
“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”
Ronald Reagan
Whatever one liberal does to make news, others are soon to follow.
I would NEVER consider driving my car in and around NYC or any other big city on a regular basis for that matter. Traffic, parking, etc., too much of a hassle. If big cities were to be restricted to taxis only, I'd be fine with that but urban public transit would need to add 10x the capacity and I don't see that happening.
I could see parking my car in the outer ring of a city and jumping on a mono-rail or something. But we are talking trillions of dollars in infrastructure.
I’m right with you. I live in a suburb just outside of San Francisco and I love my car, love driving, but almost never take my car into the city, where I spend the majority of my days. Would have no issue if they banned cars from it, though for the most part it’s already been done.
In Texas, all you need is a parent who will sign off that he/she taught you to drive. No need for drivers’ ed anymore.
We also have illegals driving willy nilly.
Google search the article title and use a link that is from something other than the WSJ. Sometimes the direct link will work sincet the WSJ will allow a few connections a month that way. Or, sometimes, they do not put the article behind the paywal.
BTW. You can usually find a digital subscription for about $89. The WSJ reporting and editorial boards are separate. The editorials and opinion pieces are usually solid. Especially Henniger and Strassel.
My building installed 20 bike racks to fulfill some requirement.
We didn’t bolt them down because we didn’t want the pavement destroyed when they were stolen.
We set them out, snapped a picture to prove we did the work, and walked away. Next morning, they were gone.
It doesn’t work? Do more of it!!! </liberal ‘logic’>
The idiots running the city in Tempe, AZ have the same misguided vision. All they do is make traffic worse.
I recently got a notice/survey that they want to do more to encourage electric vehicles. I wrote back, reminding them that electric vehicles have a larger carbon footprint than gas and diesel vehicles.
I have not heard back.
Is there anything that the leftists don’t destroy?
Worse yet, is there anything left that they don’t control?
“No need for drivers’ ed anymore:
You didn’t need driver’s ed when I started driving back in the 50s and we all drove stick.
Now there are too many distractions INSIDE the car.
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One of the things bicyclists / city planners like to put into conditions of zoning is that a new large building have provision for a bicycle maintenance facility. Gratis.
Gratis to the users, I should clarify. Obviously it has a cost.
Unless it’s theirs.
And I’m talking about American. of whom there are more in the country than 3rd worlders and 99% of them can’t drive for #$%&.
those aren’t bike lanes. They are bird and lime lanes.
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