And an epic smackdown by Business Insider’s Transportation editor, Alex Davies:
New York’s Bike Share Is Brilliant, And Every Complaint About It Is Bogus
While the auto-generated transcript on the WSJ site (mute to avoid the autoplay advertising; scroll down and click on “TRANSCRIPT”) “has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate”, somehow its distinctive prose only serves to give us a clearer view into Ms Rabinowitz’ mental processes.
I seem to recall pro-bike groups calling for bike lanes back in the 1970’s. Those lanes started being put in (at least so I noticed, in the mid-2000’s. For an all-powerful lobby, that’s pretty darned weak.
The bike share plan has been floating around for at least all of the 21st century.
The crazy bicyclists I’ve crossed paths with are, without exception, messengers. No self-respecting NYC bike messenger would be caught dead on one of those clunky CitiBikes.
Shades of The Pushcart War.
Think they’ll try to get rid of Smart cars, next?
“'Ašhadu 'al-lā ilāha illā-llāhu wa 'ašhadu 'anna muħammadan rasūlu-llāh!”
– Abraham Lincoln
It’s the second thing.
The first would be “Surrender, Dorothy.”
Begrimmed?
Are the bikes themed after fairy tale characters?
Do the bikes come with blue helmets? They could sell advertising for “Agenda 21” on them if they did.
The many other cities that have already adopted bike-sharing without a bunch of fuss are all laughing at big ol’ backwards, whiny, afraid-of-change NYC.
NYC isn’t afraid of change - WSJ is.
I wondered about that too when I read the quote, but upon watching the video it’s obviously a typo; she says “begrimed” clearly.
Yes, it is clearly “begrimed.”
Which strongly suggests that Ms Rabinowitz doesn’t really have a handle on what “grime” is. Those bikes virtually* sparkled!
*suggesting that I do have a handle on what “virtually” means. It means “not really.”
Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant (R).
Link.
Yeah. He went on to say that he’d probably get a lot of emails for saying that. Could be.
Do they have e-mail in Mississippi?
So long as you have an adequate supply of kerosene.
And toner for the printer. Or do they have prisoners act out the messages?
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You just can’t make this stuff up, folks:
Saxby Chambliss to Congress about rapes in our armed forces: “The young folks who are coming into each of your services are anywhere from 17 to 22 or 23. Gee whiz, the hormone level created by nature sets in place the possibility for these types of things to occur. So we’ve got to be very careful how we address it on our side.”
I’m setting the over/under at five days before Darrell Issa accuses Obama of orchestrating the rapes.
I would think the first response would be to use it as an example of why there shouldn’t be women in the military.