if you liked bloomberg, you'll LOVE de Blowsio...
Posted on 02/15/2014 3:58:08 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
The announcement was bold, if somewhat quixotic: Mayor Bill de Blasio, whose campaign was focused on reforming the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk tactics, would commit his administration to reducing traffic deaths “literally” to zero.
In his administration’s first 40 days, that pledge translated into a series of ticket blitzes against drivers — and, in unusually large numbers, jaywalkers.
Jaywalking tickets are up nearly eightfold this year, despite the mayor’s insistence that his plan for safer streets did not include singling out pedestrians. Through Feb. 9, there were 215 jaywalking summonses issued, compared with 27 over the same period last year; tickets issued to drivers were down slightly. . .
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Drop the speed limit to 2 mph (half of a good walking speed).
First step to remove motor vehicles from the streets of Manhattan. Agenda 21?
Liberals butting heads with reality, again.
Zillions of police issuing zillions of tickets WILL only get everyone really, really ticked off at the police and folks WILL still drive and park when and where they want.
Robocop could stop them. Finally saw it last night. Good movie.
Part of his Five Year Plan in the Great Leap Forward...
There is one thing he could do that might work. He could make all the streets “one way” going out of town...
Dumbass control freak.
I remember seeing a side street that was marked as 'one way' and 'no outlet' or 'dead end' or something in South San Francisco, ages ago. I was driving a company truck; I decided not to risk having to leave a company vehicle in a huge backup of abandoned cars that might've been at the end of that street. :-)
Yup, no cars or trucks. Just bicycles and horse-drawn carts. Oops...the latter is now banned. Guess they’ll just have to hire teams of illegals to move the cargo.
Just put connecting walkways above all the streets. That way the pedestrians and cars won’t be at the same level. Sure it would be expensive, but that’s what the rich are there for, right?
DeB is headed for an epic fail even greater than Dinkins.
"…self-propelled vehicles on public roads must be preceded by a man on foot waving a red flag and blowing a horn.".
If he wants to make the streets safe, he should prohibit all New York and New Jersey drivers and vehicles.
Let me guess, he will target cars and pedestrians, but not the suicidal cyclists.
He is going to eventually fail and fail miserably. Rudy Giuliani, a tough law and order disciplinarian had vowed to stop the throngs of people who navigate the city streets with abandon tried to do the same. He closed off many streets with police barriers forcing people to cross only at the corners. But with the huge number of people in the city leaving work nearly at the same time, forced the mayor give up only after three days. The difference is that this Mayor, a communist, might give people shoot to kill orders for anyone daring to jaywalk.
if you liked bloomberg, you'll LOVE de Blowsio...
Aha! You see, these policies were left over from the Giuliani administration and backed by the Tea Party. De Blasio is actually helping these good citizens. So it's still the Republican's fault!
(Laughs maniacally, twirls handlebar mustachio)
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