Dublin Bike scheme threatens personal freedoms

tomasrojo

I had no idea. This is a wake-up call.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/green-living-blog/2010/aug/05/free-cycle-schemes

To their users, bike hire networks like that just launched in London and the popular Vélib scheme in Paris might seem no more than a convenient, fun way to get around a city. But they're wrong.
Dan Maes, the Republican frontrunner to challenge for Colorado's governorship has discovered the truth about such cycle schemes: they are a grand United Nations plot to enslave the US.
"This is all very well disguised, but it will be exposed," Maes told supporters at a campaign rally.
"This is bigger than it looks like on the surface, and it could threaten our personal freedoms. These aren't just warm fuzzy ideas from the mayor. These are very specific strategies that are dictated to us by this United Nations programme that mayors have signed on to."

delta_bravo

Well everyone knows only left wing pinko European abortion loving homosexuals use bicycles. Fair play for the congressman for speaking up. He's said what we are all thinking.

As a nation that is averse to walking I cant imagine a bicycle scheme being too popular. Car is king over there

monument

via http://www.copenhagenize.com/

BeepBeep67

Just clicking tro some of the youtube links - this is pretty cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwNJYtmlyqw

seamus

monument wrote: »

That's the guy who played Anubis in Stargate right?

poochiem

it gets better - the colorado town that banned cycling ...

Lumen

poochiem wrote: »

it gets better - the colorado town that banned cycling ...

"the politician behind the move, the town’s mayor, David Spellman, has what might charitably be termed a colourful past. In 2006, he received a conviction for felony assault after pistol-whipping his wife while drunk, and in 2008, the Colorado Bureau of Investigations ruled that he had personally benefited from more than $1 million in state funds designated to preserve the town’s historical character after the town used those funds to buy land from him."

Classy.

TheBandit

They're making a film about him

tomasrojo

When I heard that Rob Ford clip, I knew he was from Ontario by his accent. I spent a while in Ontario, and it is as car-centric as any part of the USA.

spokeydokey

monument wrote: »

via http://www.copenhagenize.com/

Rob Ford became mayor of Toronto this week.
Don't expect a bike scheme there any time soon:(

neris

he doesnt look like the kind of guy who would be too use to a bike anyway, more like 4 wheels and a mcdonalds drive thru for him.