This weekend you might have come across the anonymous Daily News editorial in which Arthur Browne's opinion team called Paul Steely White "smug" for defending bike-share (in an opinion piece solicited by Arthur Browne's opinion team). But is it smug to point out that New Yorkers who don't own cars also deserve to have a share of the curb? Or that bike-share stations made in 2013 belong in historic neighborhoods as much as 2013 model cars?
Of course not. For a dose of genuine smugness, I invite Arthur Browne and his team of cranks to read this condensed, satirical version of the attack they published on Saturday:
Moving one's car for alternate-side parking is the single most aggravating aspect of living in New York City. Unless you're one of those people who don't own a car, in which case you never have to spend a second worrying about where to put your car, or whether you've paid up all your outstanding parking fines.
Not only do we despise alternate-side parking, we also despise every single New Yorker who doesn't have to structure their life around it.
All of this has nothing to do with bike-share, which isn't going to make owning a car in NYC any more or less miserable. But it fills us with rage to know that the city is making it easier to live without a car by launching this bike-share program, when New Yorkers without cars already have it so good.
Someone wipe that grin off Paul White's face.
Now that's smug.
