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I've noticed before the obsequious, trend-whoring pattern of retro-fitting bike lanes where there is no room for them.
Same with buses. Just shove 'em in where they don't fit, and DAMN the pollution, because BROWN people ride 'em, b'God!
Apparently cyclists are another politically powerful micro-constituency.
Or maybe, as it now seems, they are being catered to, by planners who intend to eliminate families, and replace them with sleek, individualized, carless, child-less worker-drones.
The quick drive to the dry cleaner, the five-minute run to the minimart, having a friend pick you up outside your apartment — simple parts of a daily routine all have become harder, sometimes impossible.
"Well actually, she's not REALLY my daughter. But she does like to call me Daddy... at certain moments..."
Speaking as someone who rides a bicycle occasionally, this seems pretty cool. Aside from complaints of furniture/heavy equipment moving into apartments, I can't really see anything too wrong with it. You park at the garage and public lot and walk to your store, right? I do this all the time in my city, I park in the free public lot and walk around downtown rather than do the whole park right next to the store and then possibly back into someone thing. You walk 5 minutes from the parking lot where you wanna go. Your family can and should be able to do it, too, unless they're disabled. Hell, my city at the parking garage has stairs to cross under a highway bridge, and you're another 3 minute walk from seeing the river and going to an OK park.
Bikes are pretty great. Most of the time, a big reason for not taking them is usually car traffic. Most kids can ride a bike. Most adults can ride a bike. It's not too foreseeable that if you do have to go to the store or something, you can just all go together on your bikes, right? For really little kids, there are plenty of stroller/car seat type options on bikes. If you're taking a 5 minute car ride, it'll be maybe a 15 minute bike ride? In a city where traffic is a big concern, it might be even less as you'd have less traffic to contend with. You'd probably not wanna take a bike on a trip where a car would take 20-30 minutes, but most of the time a bike is pretty viable for your little 5 minute type trips and doesn't require a high fitness level/etc. I think a big problem is in USA people buy mountain bikes and road bikes, more traditional commuter bikes are much better for actual day to day use, as both mountain bikes and road bikes are sporting bikes, so it'd be like complaining about how cars are impractical to use when all you have in your garage is a Suzuki Samurai and a Miata. You can put luggage racks, lights, etc on a bike and it makes commuting with it better.
As far as it's my understanding, in Europe it can be similar. People can't use cars for EVERY trip they take. They save a car for hauling lots of stuff, or taking a long trip. For their little day to day trips, they take a bike or walk. And they don't have giant SUVs, they have tiny hatchbacks, and life goes on without each of their children having a separate row of seats and a DVD player in the car. Their people are by health numbers, healthier than us in USA, and it's probably at least in part because if you ask them "when's the last time you've taken a walk" they don't have to think in years, but in days or hours. Cars despite being symbols of strength and independence I think have overall weakened America, at least in the present day. It's made everyone into lazy people, and it also insulates people. When you're walking you must talk to people or acknowledge they exist as a person. In a car you're insulated and all the other drivers are jerks or faggots or whatever. You don't interact or talk to other drivers.
So as much as I like cars as machines (was an auto mechanic, own a sportscar) I think the direction Seattle is going in is the direction America has to go in.
Jester you should realize by now this is the implementation of UN agenda 21, they want all the serfs to ride bikes around while the ruling class flies about in private jets around the world. The Davos global warming meeting is proof of this. The rules do not apply to them as they do the 99 to 99.99 %.
The disturbing trend to all this is you see the ruling elite class militarizing themselves to enforce this through the military industrial complex world wide on the rest of us with no honest discussion about what's up.
