Op-Ed: The Latest Bikelash Has An Odious, Trumpist Feel
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The lunatic fringe is pushing a truly "fake news" message that cars are virtuous and bikes are dangerous.
Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about NIMBYs
Bike-Share NIMBY Flyer: Make Cobble Hill Great Again
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A tipster spotted this flyer on Douglass Street in Cobble Hill, where Citi Bike will be expanding this year: Makes perfect sense. Keep bike-share at bay, and the neighborhood can be suspended in time. David Greenfield and the MTA won’t mess with F train service. Supermarkets will stay in business. The meddlesome construction of housing for other people […]
The World’s Nuttiest Bike Lane NIMBYs Live in a San Diego Beach Community
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Think you’ve read about every possible NIMBY objection to bike lanes? Think again. These recent comments from a public meeting in San Diego’s affluent Coronado beach community are definitely, um, different. At the meeting, city leaders were bombarded with objections — not about parking, traffic, or “scofflaws” on bikes, but about the “visual pollution” of painted stripes on […]
How the Post Engineers Bike-Share Bashing, Facts Be Damned
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It took a few days, but the Post found someone to go along with its bike-scare nonsense, according to the Post. Here’s the latest: “The bike racks present challenges to firefighters and frankly, trying to get around the city now is harder than ever before,” Uniformed Firefighters Association President Steve Cassidy said at a press […]
New York Post Serving as Stenographers for Bike-Share Litigants [Updated]
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Update: Streetsblog had a call in to FDNY about the Post story. After this post went up, we talked with spokesperson Frank Dwyer, who said: “We had no operational or response issues to this call. Period.” If you believe the story in today’s New York Post, it took an EMT crew over an hour to […]
FDNY: “We Haven’t Had Any Issues” With Bike-Share Locations
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Republican mayoral candidate Joseph Lhota, on WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show yesterday, said that while he didn’t “know this for a fact,” he views the bike-share program as an example of failed agency coordination in the Bloomberg administration, because he’d read press reports that people were complaining about new bike-share stations potentially impeding emergency response. Despite […]