[*BCM*] bad news and good news

[Peter]

I dare any of these fools to ride w/ me for one night and then criticize.  I work a midnight shift in town and I've given up riding in on Friday and Saturday nights.  I estimate 40% of those in the cages are over the limit on alcohol and I've had too many near misses and one bad hit too many.  When riding the only real defense is a good offense and I make no apologies for it.
If and when ANY of the goddam traffic laws are enforced in this city I'll gladly go along.  If this Globe author is observing red lights while driving he is in a distinct minority.  The last time I came to a complete stop at a stop sign while driving I was rear-ended hard enough to get whiplash.

It's funny how the Globe is criticized for being too liberal when elite snobbism is their real problem.  

--- On Fri, 8/14/09, jb fentner <symboliceon at hotmail.com> wrote:

From: jb fentner <symboliceon at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [*BCM*] bad news and good news
To: "BCM" <list at bostoncriticalmass.org>
Date: Friday, August 14, 2009, 2:32 AM




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and, really? licenses for cyclists? i'd be all for it, despite the fact that riding recklessly has saved my ass more times than i can count, but let's look at how the law already states that you can't ride on the sidewalk.. and how many folks are going to tell me to "get off the street" this year.. and how the author of this article clearly doesn't have any awareness of that law. can any of you really imagine one cyclist backing up traffic twenty deep in the longwood medical area? hell no, the traffic congestion there is almost always like that no matter what unless it's, like, sunday morning. i spent years commuting from mission hill to brookline via longwood and the only problems i ever caused were occasionally freaking out drivers by passing them. if anything, during the school year, students who just blatently cross the street without looking for cars or bikes should need licenses for walking as i'm pretty sure they cause more congestion than any of
 us. 

and the bit about how drivers never do anything stupid? are we KIDDING!? christ, most drivers around here don't even use their turn signals and even when they do there's a very immediate debate going on in my mind of: "do they even know right from left? do they have any idea where they even are right now?"

i wanna wash this author's hybrid, make it all shiny with that 'new car smell' and then stab them in the face just to make a point about how it's not the cars any of us have a problem with, it's the fucking assholes who can't handle yet can't stop driving them. 

i need a cigarette now. 


                        




> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:53:37 -0400
> From: dimitrik at gmail.com
> To: list at bostoncriticalmass.org
> Subject: [*BCM*] bad news and good news
> 
> More bike hatred in the boston globe:
> 
> http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/08/13/the_cure_for_road_rage_bike_laws/
> 
> 
> On the bright side, Boston will be getting bike sharing in the spring:
> 
> http://www.montrealgazette.com/Bixi+does+London+Boston/1885134/story.html
> 
> http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/08/vendor_selected.html
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