[*BCM*] bad news and good news

[Anne Wolfe]

This article was in the editorial/letters section of the Boston Globe.

Why write here, where the audience you want to hear it most certainly is
not?  Why not write a letter/article of your own in response and send it to
the Globe?

2009/8/14 Peter <gh3451 at yahoo.com>

>  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
>
> 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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