In case you marvel how the New York Metropolis motor scooter scenario goes, right here’s your reply:
Motor scooters ought to definitely have license plates, however I don’t see how that’s going to maintain idiots from using them on the sidewalks–subsequent time somebody in a automobile with a license plate does one thing reckless, go forward and name 911 with a plate quantity and see how that works out for you.
In a method I’ve virtually come to love the motor scooters as a result of they’re the one factor everybody within the metropolis appears to agree on; just about everybody hates them, and even the protected road advocates don’t actually appear to defend them anymore. In addition to blackouts and terrorist assaults, motor scooters look like just about the one factor that may convey New Yorkers collectively. On this sense they’re changing into an emblem of unity, and I feel this gentleman speaks for all of us:
[“What are you, meshugeneh?”]
Please be aware nonetheless that I stated “virtually,” and largely I simply hate* them as a result of they’re ruining the bike paths and customarily suck ass:
*[I don’t intrinsically hate motor scooters, I think they’re great in the road where they belong, I just hate them the way people in New York use them, which in keeping with the way we do most things here is completely ass-backwards.]
They run the fuck out of the purple lights, too, and as an enlightened motorist who’s usually inclined to provide anybody else who’s not driving a automobile loads of wiggle room I can solely conclude that the majority of those individuals merely need to die.
Another excuse to virtually like motor scooters is that New Yorkers’ rising hatred of them (in addition to the e-bikes and e-scooters and different fast-moving nuisance gadgets which can be usually related to them) might lastly be distracting them from how a lot they used to hate common bikes:
Although I suppose it’ll be that a lot tougher to get anybody to help new bike lanes, that are now not bike lanes anyway, so it in all probability doesn’t matter. ( Simply experience a daily bike in a so-called “bike lane” and depend what number of occasions somebody honks a kind of annoying digital e-bike horns at you.) At this level we’d like separate e-bike lanes and common bike lanes similar to we’ve separate parkways and expressways for vehicles and vans, however good luck implementing that. You may say license plates make it attainable to separate vehicles and vans, however finally it solely works as a result of in case you drive a truck on a parkway in New York that is what occurs:
That Robert Moses was fiendishly intelligent.
In the meantime, yesterday the motive force of an NYPD tow truck killed a younger little one whereas towing away some asshole’s automobile with bullshit out-of-state plates:
Who had racked up a powerful variety of digital camera tickets:
Towing a automobile with a shitload of tickets can be a win for license plates if solely we had been in a position to take action with out killing a baby within the course of. Whether or not it’s vehicles or scooters or the rest, everybody at all times thinks they’ve the answer: Extra bike lanes! Extra intersection daylighting! Eliminate the bike lanes! Necessary registration and licensing for e-bikes! However after awhile it will get tougher and tougher to not interact in “New York exceptionalism” and conclude we’re uniquely silly and incapable of working any automobile in any scenario in a remotely competent method. We’re so dumb that in case you banned all the things apart from public transportation we’d nonetheless handle to run one another over with our grocery carts:
Besides a Metropolis Council member to suggest necessary grocery cart registration throughout the subsequent 10 years.
Talking of life in New York, how about a motorcycle path between the George Washington Bridge and the Tappan Zee Mario Cuomo Bridge?
This can be a vastly standard space for cyclists, particularly because the Tappan Zee Mario Cuomo Bride bike path opened again in 2020 or no matter it was, but apart from the bridge paths themselves there are just about no facilities for them aside from indicators ordering them to experience single-file:
The above makes it sound like everybody’s simply casually using as much as Canada, however mainly it’s individuals doing the bridge loop by using up one aspect of the Hudson and down the opposite:
Anyway, I actually ought to have turn out to be an city planner or no matter, as a result of it certain looks as if simple cash:
I received your examine proper right here:
Simply give me 300 grand and we’ll name it even.
Paradoxically, it’s the individuals who at present experience 9W who stand to lose probably the most, since they’re virtually fully roadies and a path filled with “normies” won’t be conducive to humorless high-speed paceline using. Then once more none of it actually issues because it received’t be lengthy till it’s taken over by motor scooters and nuisance gadgets.
Fuck it, I’m using the Previous Croton Aqueduct.
