BREAKING NEWS: Hornby Bike Lane A Done Deal, Flipside For Next Year
I have no idea why so many of you are exorcised by the Hornby bike lane. There’s more to come.
This insane group of Vision radicals is not going to stop until YOU get to the voting booth and vote them out.
It was decided long ago. City engineering is already doing advance prep, RIGHT THROUGH THE CONSULTATION PROCESS.
Geoff Meggs knows this, but continues to lie about a “24% increase in cycling”. But from 3%! That part, he conveniently leaves out. So, it’s not 24 plus 3, which is what the largely dope smoking cycling fascists want you to believe.
Not a chance. year-round cycling in Vancouver has increased by a fraction. 4% of the city are using their bikes, and this, after earmarking over $40 million dollars over the next several years. Hmmm…remember when the NPA suggested a $45 million dollar second crossing for the overburdened Burrard Bridge? Then future Mayor Moonbeam scoffed. But he won’t hesitate to blow through that much and more on ripping up streets downtown.
There was never a need for anything other than that second crossing. All the other bike lanes are an ode to Vision’s maniacal cycling lobby, who take to the internet and editorial pages and outrightly lie.
The long-term plan is to permanently place all these bike lanes, plus more, and to make it almost impossible or too expensive to rip them out.
No, you say? Well, let me break a little news for you right here. The plan is to implement this grotesque thing on one side of Hornby and then flip to the other side of the street later next year. For those of you that know the street well. All the lovely trees and plants and extra large pedestrian walkways that were put in over the last ten years–it’s all getting ripped out. The tax dollars you wanted (and approved) to go to extra green space and pedestrian safety is gone, to satisfy the radical, extremist agenda of Gregor Robertson, Geoff Meggs and Mike Magee.
And here’s a brilliant quote from Hollyhock/Solomon/Robertson disciple and Chicago import Silly Hall’s Sadhu Johnston, when explaining to the Sun’s Jeff Lee that the damage to businesses from bike lanes as being fiction:
“Our staff in doing this work and taking direction from council looked all over the world at where separated bike lanes were pursued and they found again and again and again that that is not the case. This is not the first city to do this, and they have found this kind of infrastructure is value-added to the neighbourhood,
The problem being Mr. Johnston that Vancouver is a city of hills and valleys and our two main ethnic groups raise their kids to drive Porsches and BMWs. They ride bikes on the trails and that’s only if the girlfriend thinks it’s a good idea to get some fresh air one month a year. What a pinhead Johnston is.
Three businesses along Dunsmuir are already trying to renegotiate with their landlords as a result of the bike lane there. And one business has died as a direct result of the Burrard Bridge insanity with another business looking at options.
Incredible.
Oh, and in case you missed it. The type of civilian defender that Vision attracts is…
Please welcome someTHING called Brandon Steele. I saw this paragon of virtue , this business genius and defender of the Vision-propelled cycling theocracy last night on the dinner news hour. Other than making me remember a rather Pimms-fueled walk through Madame Tussaud’s years ago when I was off to study in London, I marveled at his polemics: “It’s the way the world is going…” “Maybe businesses should gear their marketing to cyclists…they have a lot of available money…”
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
What an idiot.
But then I noticed the gaunt, ashen face, sunken eyes, somewhat glazed look and thought, “Hmmm, I wonder what this rocket scientist does for a living? Or in his spare time…”
Well, lo and behold, Dr. Alex’s suspicions run true: Mr. Brandon Steele works for the Vancouver Seed Bank. So, work and play, all the same way!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Yet another dope fiend facilitator, cycling no-mind, supporting Gregor Robertson!
But then again, does Gregor really need anyone other than Joel Solomon?
Why do I ask? Well, have a look at one of Mr. Solomon’s business interests, here.
My friends, if the NPA just got organized behind a credible Mayoral candidate and either retrained or lost the likes of Sean Bickerton and Suzanne Anton, these dope-smoking, dancing charlatans and social engineering extremists with Vision could be wiped from the city map and sent back to Cortes Island to go right back to doing what they were doing before…
Tilling the fields…picking those nasty weeds…
Thanks for the link to “one of Mr Solomon’s business interests” – It figures. But you can’t wear Spandex, Lycra or any kind of Yoga gear when you’re on one of those: really bad style clash! You’re pretty well stuck with tweed.
I think that as well as hoping that the NPA gets organized, we better hope that COPE, or someone, gets organized to suck votes leftward away from V.V. I think I saw that you implied elsewhere that you may have something coming up on this and I look forward to it.
As far as biking infrastructure goes, it certainly does look like they are in a hurry to get as much on the ground as possible (that can’t be ripped out later). I recall from the video of the Council meeting approving it, however, that the RFP for the engineering study of the Burrard Bridge Renovation will not likely be put out until Sept 2010, and the study will then take a year to do – which brings us up to Civic Election 2011. So the cookie may continue to crumble for who knows how long.
PS: Glad to see you back on blog and sincerely hope your family is not worried.
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Thx Gary! Much appreciated. Be well my friend.
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“4% of the city are using their bikes, and this, after earmarking over $40 million dollars over the next several years”
Shouldn’t that sentence read ‘before’ earmarking over $40 million dollars?
Imagine how many cyclists there’s going to be after we spend that money Alex! Makes one giddy with anticipation doesn’t it.
Calls for a parade or something.
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Whatever Chris…you sure think your cycling bullshit is going to fly??? Sure.absolutely, good luck with that.
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I don’t make assumptions about the success of anything. At this point it seems working towards safe routes for cycling will be a long, drawn-out process hampered by individuals who have an antipathy to the idea for reasons that are hard to understand.
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“…by individuals who have an antipathy to the idea for reasons that are hard to understand.”
Chris, that goes both ways.
None of us understand how YOU and your ilk don’t get it either.
No point in debating you either, we’ll never see each other’s point of view. I don’t know about you and your history with cars, but I used to ride my bike everywhere. In fact I lived on it.
I certainly can’t say whether or not you truly appreciate what the automobile has done for society, business and culture. The middle one being the most important one since society and culture both benefit from people earning a living. The bicycle may have been around longer but it’s contribution to society pales in comparison and it always will.
Now as someone who used to live on my bike, I can honestly say that I have never agreed with the approach to separate bikes from traffic, and never will. If you’re afraid, grow a pair.
As for your messaging, as much as you’ve tried to keep it consistent, lately you and your pride have been all over the board…..better fix that before its too late. I’ve been watching without commenting lately and have found it mildly amusing.
Usually when the messaging loses its focus, thats a sign that the end is near. In that spirit and on that note, whether you like it or not, the heavy-handed methods Vision is using to implement what you so crave, will be the death of them and your beloved lanes.
Don’t believe, just watch and see. AND don’t bet on all that money and influence the VACC throws around to continue working, that ship will sail.
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The whole plan was really approved about 5 months ago. Staff were told to toe the line.
A little birdie told me so.
Read Christie Blatchford’s fabulous piece in today’s G+M on the local health authorities and how they conduct “public consultation”.
The tail is wagging the dog.
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Yup screw the businesses, the cars, the shoppers, the pedestrians all for the few bikes that will use these new lanes. (On nice days)
I walked across the Burrard bridge on Saturday morning. 3 bikes going downtown and 4 going to Kits. Ten times that many walking and on the way back 5 bikes going to kits and three going downtown. And one of those was on the west side sidewalk he couldn’t even figure out there was a lane just for him or perhaps he was so used to using the sidewalk just didn’t care.
Time to licence them so they can start paying for their use of the roadways. And time for the cops to start inforcing the laws.
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You think that’s bad? It took me 15 minutes to get from the Viaduct to Burrard yesterday with maybe a dozen cyclists at most. Dunsmuir used to be one of the few streets downtown where the lights were synchronized and you could cross town efficiently and now they’ve screwed that up.
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It’s pretty obvious that based on Penny Ballem’s edict that all reports must pass through her desk (to meet Vision’s agenda) that the cycling numbers are being cooked; manufactured to create the image of some support. IT’s the biggest lie perpetrated on Vancouverites in quite a while. Good to hear from you Bill!
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I wonder if Brandon has as poetic streak as his incarcerated boss?
This is your artistic licence, on drugs (or the residue theroff):
http://www.straight.com/article-336964/vancouver/marc-emery-us-federal-prison-blog-8letter-jodie
Read the comments. Even supporters are appalled. And–vote early, vote often!
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OMG
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I know, I know…
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“So, it’s not 24 plus 3, which is what the largely dope smoking cycling fascists want you to believe.”
While there’s no easy definition of fascism some include:
“A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.”
“Fascists believe that a nation is an organic community that requires strong leadership, singular collective identity, and the will and ability to commit violence and wage war in order to keep the nation strong.”
Do you really think that about cyclists? About the current politicians? If not, why do you keep referring to them as such?
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Fascism, in the context of current cycling nuts and certainly Vision Vancouver politicians, meets the standard of being, “a radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideology.” Joel Solomon chose Cortes Island for a reason. He and Carol Newell chose BC for a reason. They chose Gregor Robertson for a reason. Occupying Vancouver is not enough for them. They want radical change and don’t care who hurts in the process.
I think the militant in the Critical Mass movement are rabid extremists. Yes, in many ways, they exhibit the identical characteristics as fascists.
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Could this be secret footage of the mayor discussing his future cycling plans for Vancouver. This guy seems as rational as the mayor
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmwXRbYx_I0
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Rip snorting hilarity abounds!
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