Posted on 09/16/2011 4:38:25 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Senate majority leader Harry Reid was in full form this morning, taking on the great issue of our day . . . bike paths!
Harry Reid: "Well, for most Americans, [bike paths] are absolutely important. It's good for purposes of allowing people to travel, um, without burning all the fossil fuel on the highways. I got up this morning really early, and went out and did my exercise. I'm not exaggerating--scores!--at least 30 or 40 bikes--so scores may be a slight exaggeration--of people, not just for exercise, traveling to work. Backpacks on--they are going to work. That's what bike paths are all about!"
According to an ad on TV this AM, Chairman ObaMao has it posted online so everyone can read his Little Red Bill.
Ali-Bama and his Filthy Thieves need another $500 Billion or so to buy a new, improved, jobs lamp.
What fools! Don't they realize they are exhaling more carbon dioxide then someone sitting at home watching reruns of Hogan's Hero's?
Ever heard of a “Road Diet”? The radicals who run my local community think putting in bike paths is a great way to get rid of cars.
The commies call that a "Road Diet".
well, they can take that road diet and shove it where the sun doesn’t shine. The nutjobs in Austin wanted to have one four lane street blocked for 12 or 15 blocks for bikes only. That would really have been good for the businesses. NOT!
Apparently Dirth Harry has lived too long in his Washington DC fancy hotel apartment.
He sure hasn’t been driving around his home state of Nevada.
State highways out here are gravel & streets on the map grid are dirt.
In a part of the nation- DC- where winter can be a really pain, riding bikes isn’t high on very many lists. Besides—how long would you have your bike in a city that has sich high crime rates???
Apparently Dirth Harry has lived too long in his Washington DC fancy hotel apartment.
He sure hasn’t been driving around his home state of Nevada.
State highways out here are gravel & streets on the map grid are dirt.
In a part of the nation- DC- where winter can be a really pain, riding bikes isn’t high on very many lists. Besides—how long would you have your bike in a city that has such high crime rates???
Madison, Wisconsin, AKA MADISTAN, jumped at Federal Money to put in paved bike paths all over the city.
There is a sting attached, tho.
Such money from the Feds demands that maintenance must be current & that all paths MUST be kept open 24/7/365.
Since there is often a winter with fair amounts of snow in Madistan, such paths must be kept OPEN.
They are too narrow to plow with a truck, so they must use manual labor & snowblowers to keep them open all winter.
There is ALWAYS a Birkenstocker or 3 to call up & demand that such plowing be done immediately, all winter long.
The manual labor cost of such path clearing is far exceeding the cost of the path in the first place, which Madistan could have done with their own money & their own rules about winter clearing efforts.
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