Time for the Duke again!
Posted on 02/15/2020 1:02:57 PM PST by karpov
Forget “economic justice,” climate change and foreign policy. The big issue for America if Michael Bloomberg wins the presidency is:
Will he install bike lanes on Interstate highways?
Maybe you scoff. Of course our former mayor and his transportation sidekick Janette Sadik-Khan couldn’t possibly inflict their cycling mania from sea to shining sea. But back when Bloomberg took office in 2002, the idea that the Big Apple might one day be crisscrossed with space-hogging bike lanes seemed ridiculous. Today, the city has 1,260 traffic-snarling miles of them.
They’re a barrel of fun for cycling enthusiasts, a tiny minority of New Yorkers who still whine there aren’t enough of them. And admittedly, if you cram a bunch of bikers onto the Brooklyn Bridge at rush hour, the city’s cyclists do resemble an invading army on the march.
But the numbers tell a different story. While advocates boast that 86,000 people pedal their way to work every day in town — a 50 percent jump over 10 years ago — they ignore that roughly 3.6 million of us commute to work by other means, according to the US Census.
Meanwhile, all those new bike lanes took stuff away from everyone else — including roads previously used for cars and trucks, and thousands of parking spaces.
Folks in states that are less hostile to cars than New York City — which is to say, just about every state — will choke on the changes Bloomberg and Sadik-Khan could bring to their way of life.
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A million cars could surround Washington, DC in protest—oops—that is just the normal Beltway Commute!
Bloomberg's legacy to me is more bums on the streets and avenues that have been reduced from four lanes to three to give bicycles and pedestrians a lane. (When I was younger I regularly rode a bicycle from the East 60s down to Washington Square. I am not anti-bicycle; and pedestrians have the sidewalks.)ML/NJ
Can’t I just borrow his jet?
And sodeepop cops to make sure you don’t have larger than 12oz sodeepops around.
Oooppppss. So the car culture is safe since that ain’t happenin’.
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Perhaps Bloomberg’s campaign to vacate the Second Amendment should be used as a guide here. Those advocates of automobiles have much the same fervor to keep their automobiles as the Second Amendment supporters.
Mike is facing a LOT of headwind on this one. Maybe even more than his proposed gun grab.
If only because there are way more people who own cars than own guns.
You sound like me. Driving a clunker in my late teens taught me a lot. Just keeping it on the road with little or no money taught a number of important life lessons. Like how to fabricate part of an exhaust system with flexible tubing and coffee cans or your car breaks down 100+ miles from home and it’s 10:30 at night. So you are 19 and you have a problem you have to solve right now on your own. Then there are countless social issues that surround a car. Taking away car ownership is a very big deal with countless implications.
Bloomberg is another arrogant controlfreak and the power has the more control he will hunger for. We better pray this SOB never gets near the White House.The climate BS is Taylor made for his type.
The street down the hill was scheduled to be resurfaced. They started the job. They had painted a block or so, and it became evident they intended to morph the street from a four lane to a two lane, so they could have a bicycle lane on each side.
That very night I hot-footed it down to the city hall, and addressed the city council.
I explained at even at four lanes, that street backs up during such hour, and that changing it to a two lane would seriously screw things up.
Luckily one of the city council members lived off that street and uses it regularly. She backed up what I had said.
That first block was repainted to four lanes, and the project to add bike lanes was dropped just like that.
I ride my bike on that roadway, but the cars and trucks have first dibs > IMO.
That's reason enough to vote AGAINST him.
I’m relearning the clunker lessons patching the jeeps, blazer, and 750 back a better way.
No doubt there is a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment coming up with a rig because you can’t afford the part when you’re young or the part isn’t made any more when you’re old.
One of the things that you have to do to work on a car now.
Learn to code.
I’ve ridden on bike paths next to freeways, and it’s not much fun. Mostly just due to the noise.
Old I have.
Aftermarket jeep, especially Willys is frustrating at best.
AMC is a little better.
I scored a used but probably runnable 304.
This week I will try to get the stuff to see if it will at least kick over on the teailer.
Obama. Has just endorsed Bloomberg. Saw ad w zero praising Bloomberg.
Now you’re having fun.
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