Posted on 08/15/2025 5:13:16 AM PDT by fruser1
Jay Cashman, 72, poured millions into Mayor Michelle Wu's election in 2021, but became outraged when the new two-lane bike path was erected outside his $19 million mansion on Dartmouth Street last year, according to the Boston Globe.
It was just part of Wu's plans to build an an elaborate cycling network around the city, as she doubled the number of dedicated bike lanes in Boston since she took office to 15 miles.
Her administration had identified Dartmouth Street 'as a bike corridor project' because it provides direct access to the Charles River Esplanade, which city officials called a 'daily destination for residents, commuters and visitors alike.'
But Cashman has argued that these new bike lanes were hastily built and ignored critics' concerns, which ranged from safety risks, loss of parking spaces, more congested street traffic and slower response times for emergency vehicles.
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The US is not The Netherlands.
I used to poo poo bike lanes due to minimal usage and great expense. After riding ebikes, I can now see opportunities for bike lane and usage expansion in certain environments.
He may learn what the Streisand Effect is...
Had to be photoshopped because the photographer would have had to have waited weeks to get more than one or two bicyclists in the picture. The purpose of bike lanes in cities is primarily to impede and congest motorists, bicycles are a secondary concern
When you support Democrats.... you get what you pay for....
good & hard.
We wasted tons on bike lane here years ago and no one used them ,LOL
“Erect” literally means “to set up,” or “establish,” from the same root as “direct.” It’s common to use in terms of erecting a diocese, erecting a district, erecting a county seat, erecting a business district, etc.
hey, jay, go woke, get F-ed ...
besides, there’s nothing to worry about anyway because almost no one uses those bike lanes ... colorado has spent many tens of millions on intercity bike lanes, and i’ve almost never seen a bicycle on one ... in the mean time, traffic jams just get worse and worse ...
In that area... A single dedicated parking spot is probably worth well over 100k.
So, the residents of that street will now have to pay to garage their Bently and then Uber, or walk home. A garage parking spot is 100s- thousand/ month.
Boston resident parking is a HUGE deal.
LOL. I guess we have to update the term “Limousine Liberal” to “Bike Lane Liberal.” They are all for bike lanes unless the lanes are in front of their mansions.
IOW, for selfish reasons you now approve them for everyone else to contend with.
If they are used, it means there is demand. In a capitalistic society I would approve of them if they are used. What I am against is making them with taxpayer funds with hardly any use. I believe with the advent of ebikes more people will use bike lanes - I have no problem with that.
Wow, what entitlement mentality.
Suck it up buster. You’re one of what, 6 billion people on the planet, blessed with more money than most, but no different than the rest of us.
That picture is what the leftists tell us it will be like and think it will if they just *do it right*.
Completely detached from reality.
Fortunately, Jay still has his castle in Ireland.
Nice Jewish name.
Rich leftists love these policies till it affects them. Hypocrites.
If you want to use it in this context, feel free, but It sounds stupid. A path is something you lay down, not set up.
But they didn’t lay down the path. The physical structure of the path was already there. They changed the status of the path from parking to bike lane. Hence, they erected the bike lane.
Hyper-pedantically (which is to resist the evolving meaning of words), one erects a monument but builds a building. When you build a cathedral, or capital or headquarters, you simultaneously erect a cathedral building, capital or headquarters, so the words often overlap. But one builds a church when they erect a parish.
Remaining hyper-pedantic, there’s a common misuse of a word that people think is a medical term, but it’s not. The correct word is priapism.
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