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Sat Dec 19
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11:04 AM
12/18/09
My peoples like their right-of-way
...We love to complain
... But let the bike lane
Be full of hot women all day
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Next up: Kosher Moo Shoo Pork substitute. It's a sad world we live in, lobstr.
12/18/09
"A small portion of this lane is being removed as part of ongoing bike network adjustments in the area, which have included the recent addition of a barrier-protected connector lane on nearby Williamsburg Street and the completion of a unique, two-way protected lane on parallel Kent Avenue," Department of Transportation spokesman Seth Solomonow told NBCNewYork.com. "We will continue to work with any community on ways we can make changes to our streets without compromising safety."
So it's been re-routed, it seems. Are there no Hasids on Williamsburg Street or Kent Avenue? Or do the Hasids there just have better control over themselves? The safety issue DOES seem trumped up. This is because safety is the ONLY way that the Hasids can legitimately control how a public street gets used. Were I a hipster, I would demand to see the safety study that led to this decision.
But I would also continue my practice of showering once or twice a day, and would soon be shunned.
Kudos to the hipsterettes who plan on cycling with their tatas out in protest. There's nothing like a parade of sad, pale, floppy, underdone pancakes sailing down Bedford to communicate discontent.
12/18/09
:)
12/18/09
Just a little background on Kent Ave. & Williamsburg St. - This leads to the on-ramp/off-ramp of the BQE. It's heavily trafficed by large trucks plus all the other BQE traffic.
Williamsburg St. is a narrow two lane stretch that becomes 3 lanes from west of Kent Ave to east of Flushing Ave - 1 block - for the purpose of directing traffic to and from the BQE.
I'd really love to see how this is safer than say Lee Ave or Bedford Ave both of which are residential streets that join Williamsburg to more civilized parts of Brooklyn.
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Damn yuppies. Get offa my mushroom garden!
12/12/09
Answer: Union Pool.
/corrected.
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And this gives them the right to eliminate a form of transit used by their neighbors... why, exactly?It's the "we own the streets and fuck everyone else" nonsense that's really being criticized here - on both sides.
And yes, the cyclists can be rude and unsafe.Removing the bike lanes because you don't want little Eli (who can't control himself, natch) staring at a length of lanky, pasty hipster thigh or a saggy, bra-less pierced man boobie?
A preposterous self-entitled work of doucherie.
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(This applies to the hipsters too.)
Ghettos suck, whether forced or self-imposed.
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If the issue was truly safety, the DOT would have been called. This is about the Hasidim imposing their own religious doctrine on the public, on the sneak, in the middle of the night, and the NYPD's complicity in it.
It doesn't help that the hipsters have bad manners and are self-entitled as well.
But telling people what they can wear in public? And failing that, removing a means of public transit?
Sorry Hasids. If evangelicals tried this shit, I'd be on a unicycle with a couple of pinwheel pasties and a banana hammock, juggling live gerbils in front of them, their wives, and snotty kids.
Give me any reason why they should be able to do this. One valid one would do.
12/09/09
Btw, let me know when you plan on showing up on unicycle with a banana hammock, juggling live gerbils. I would love to see it.
I biked the 5 boro tour last year and when I passed through this area hassidic women were there with their kids. It was someting to do on a rainy Sunday.
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But seriously?
Bike lanes are: a very important part of a planned transportation infrastructure, and should be used and respected as such.
Bike lanes are not: additional sidewalks, parking spots, skate parks, or taxi stands.
As one who cycles pretty much every day for all activities, this is part of a MUCH larger issue concerning how NYers share the little real estate we have.
In closing, a note to pedestrians who insist on walking in the bike lane with their ipods blaring: Please remember that you shouldn't be there in the first place, so if you get yourself in trouble because you can't hear someone yelling to get the fuck out of the way, it's nobody's fault but your own.
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I'm Team Cycles.
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If your faith is THAT strong and perfect, then cyclists can't threaten it. Get a grip.