Complete and utter nutso on CitiBike

[KLizotte]

Bike sharing is a fire hazard?!? The complaints get whackier and whackier by the day.

[dasgeh]

@KLizotte 53830 wrote:

Bike sharing is a fire hazard?!? The complaints get whackier and whackier by the day.

There’s an argument that the stations in front of building entrances could hinder the fire department getting in. Because the cars (inevitably parked in front of entrances, even when there’s no parking) help.

[Honeybadger6]

If you can’t see the video on the above link, try http://live.wsj.com/video/opinion-death-by-bicycle/C6D8BBCE-B405-4D3C-A381-4CA50BDD8D4D.html?mod=WSJ_article_outbrain&obref=obnetwork#!C6D8BBCE-B405-4D3C-A381-4CA50BDD8D4D.

[Honeybadger6]

The reporter trying to interview the bat-shit-crazy woman can’t stop laughing at her in the process… Classic.

[eminva]

There will always be those who can’t let down their hair and have fun in life. There will always be those given to hyperbole and histrionics. With thirty years as a Wall Street Journal print subscriber, I think I can safely say that their editorial board is a hotbed of both categories of unhappy folk (or a combo thereof).

I’m tempted to trot out Dirt’s line, “We should all go for a bike ride!” Or failing that, wait an hour or two to see what BikeSnob NYC does with it.

Liz

[ebubar]

Not surprised by this from the editorial board. I know they’re constantly touting that climate change is false.
Sadly my students bring up these kinds of things as “fact” since it has the word Wall Street Journal attached to it.

I think some intrepid bikers need to offer this woman some free high fives!
(though she’d probably recoil at the crazy scallywags and claim assault)

[Honeybadger6]

@ebubar 53840 wrote:

I think some intrepid bikers need to offer this woman some free high fives!
(though she’d probably recoil at the crazy scallywags and claim assault)

High fives? I’d rather see bike grease *accidentally* appear on her $5000 suit. Then we can hear all about how cycling is also ruining NYC’s iconic fashion industry.

[ebubar]

@Honeybadger6 53843 wrote:

High fives? I’d rather see bike grease *accidentally* appear on her $5000 suit. Then we can hear all about how cycling is also ruining NYC’s iconic fashion industry.

I keep watching this and can’t decide what my favorite part is.

“Best neighborhoods are absolutely begrimed by these blazing blue citibank bikes”
“Its shocking to see how much of this they’ve sneaked under the radar under the interest of the environment.”
“The bike lobby is an all powerful enterprise.”

[Honeybadger6]

Ya… She definitely studied alliterations and other commonly used literary tactics heavily to get to this point in life. #imdoingitwrong?

[creadinger]

The vinegar soaked attitude aside, she reminds me of one of the old ladies from the movie “Groundhog Day” who get a flat and are utterly helpless without their car, until a nice Phil Connors puts on the spare. This lady must think it’s still 1960 or something, and the automobile is just moving into its prime and traffic backups are NOT an actual living nightmare yet.

[ebubar]

For some reason I think this nutso would get along well with Lucille Bluth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x25l4sIJ3bg

[TwoWheelsDC]

@creadinger 53855 wrote:

The vinegar soaked attitude aside, she reminds me of one of the old ladies from the movie “Groundhog Day” who get a flat and are utterly helpless without their car, until a nice Phil Connors puts on the spare. This lady must think it’s still 1960 or something, and the automobile is just moving into its prime and traffic backups are NOT an actual living nightmare yet.

If her car gets a flat, her driver just calls another car to pick her up. I can’t imagine this lady has driven herself anywhere in quite some time.

[mstone]

@eminva 53836 wrote:

Or failing that, wait an hour or two to see what BikeSnob NYC does with it.

He has delivered.

[Riley Casey]

“The bike lobby is an all powerful enterprise.”

Finally! Thank the maker. It’s about Effin time. First New York, now the world. Heheheheheeeea.

[PotomacCyclist]

Hmm, 32,000 to 34,000 people killed by car and truck drivers in the U.S. last year. Number of people killed by cyclists in the U.S. Well, the number is so small that I can’t actually find the answer. (A multi-year traffic safety study for the entire state of New York found that cyclists in all of NYS killed less than one person per year on average.) Yeah, I guess the cyclists are a graver threat than the taxi drivers. (And the truck drivers, and the suburban commuters, and the speeding recreational drivers. And the…)

As for the all-powerful bike lobby, they gain their powers from the Lycra. It’s the Lycra. Lycra-clad Lance-wannabes. When more than one of these Lycra-clad individuals gets together or even within the same city block, the Lycra acts as an electrical conduit, creating a magnetic field. Sort of like a giant battery. That powers the special interest bike force. This is obvious to see because all of our cities are now taken over by separated bike paths, cycle tracks, velodromes and bike shops. You can’t even drive a car in most U.S. cities these days.

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