Yes, it is time for another rant regarding the environmentally derived myth of "It's good to have bike riders in the City!" You may recall I have a bug about this, as I do about being forced to use mercury laden light bulbs. And the bug has been regenerated!
Along a main thoroughfare in my neighborhood a few weeks ago, the minions of whatever public service agency does this sort of thing was stencilling pictures of bicycles along it. And above there came to be signs that said, "Every lane a bike lane". And they saw it was good. . . .oops I am going awry here.
Well, maybe not. We have self appointed gods and goddesses of the good in our society and among them are those who insist that the bicycle and the car can co-exist on city streets without calamity. This reminds me of the traffic camera lights that have recently been pulled from many intersections after the obvious came to fruition; there were more accidents not less as a result of this political and revenue raising balm. And so it goes in a world where common sense is a thing of the past.
Really? Every lane a bike lane? If that is the case, then why not the freeway? There are lanes there too.
Right now, folks with bikes well too laden and mufflers around or i-pods connected to their ears veer and teeter to the right of a driver, a foot or less from contact. Now, that injurious "they" who govern our lives without stepping out into the sunlight wants them in our lanes? Today I saw why people were unable to get into a parking lot for a foodstore. They were being held up, yes, by a bicycle. Traffic is NOT being assisted. You don't need a study to see that. People have already been hurt, but it isn't a big media story yet, and when it is, it'll be the drivers to blame, not the idiocy of car v. bicycle.
Why don't our beneficial tyrants just say, "No more cars!" Everyone must ride a bicycle in the city. Grandma get on that bike for those meds at CVS! Bicycles for two and three and the whole family! Kill two birds with one stone. Get rid of cars and force people to exercise. That's the ticket!
Failure to ride your bike at least once a week should lead to a heavy fine. Yeah, yeah, let's do that!
Of course, no one falls off bikes. No one will hit another while on a bike. Bikes save!
Please will somebody wake up and get the bikes off our roads and into the parks and beach areas where they were doing perfectly fine? There should be no bike lanes on city streets. And one day, just like with the traffic camera ticket lights, somebody is going to state the obvious and everyone will say, "Yes, that is a great thinker." Oh, please.
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