Re: NYC tax dollars at work

On Wed, 14 May 2025 19:48:35 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@gXXmail.com> wrote:

On 5/14/2025 6:53 PM, AMuzi wrote:

On 5/14/2025 3:12 PM, sms wrote:

On 5/14/2025 9:42 AM, Shadow wrote:

On Wed, 14 May 2025 09:08:59 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
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It's not California's Train to Nowhere, but still:
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https://nypost.com/2025/05/13/us-news/fuming-cyclists- rip-nyc-for-
taking-sweet-time-to-finish-west-side-bike- path-leaving-dangerous-
detours-behind/

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    At a guess, the governor/mayor is not a repuglican.
    If the bikeway was being built by the orange thing, the
headlines would be "predicted to be finished in 10 years, it only took
5, and it's the biggest, bestist bike path EVER, and it ONLY cost US$
10 million".
    The nypost is a #FAKE_NEWS conduit, IMHO.
    []'s

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Take anything written in the NY Post with many many grains of salt.
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Same story three weeks ago in streetsblog
 
https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/04/24/parks-dept-controls-vital-bike-
infrastructure-but-treats-riders-like-an-afterthought

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I object to phrases like "the only car-free safe infrastructure." Far
too many people think bicycling on ordinary roads is horrendously
dangerous. I suspect the bulk of them have never examined relevant data,
and/or are incompetent at math.

Not horrendously dangerous, just too dangerous for many people to do
if they don't have to and/or have other places to ride.

I, and hundreds, probably thousands of people here in west central
Florida have hundreds of miles of vehicle free, mostly people free
asphalt to ride, so I can't think of many reasons to ride on "ordinary
roads." However, when I do have a reason to ride on them, I do.

--
C'est bon
Soloman