Revenge of the Bedford Bike Lane Activists
Angered over the city’s backroom deal with Hasidic community leaders to remove a 14-block stretch of bicycle lane on Bedford Avenue in South Williamsburg, a group of bike lane proponents took matters into their own hands early Monday morning. Interestingly, a post on StreetsBlog claims that the renegade painters included some members of the Hasidic…
Angered over the city’s backroom deal with Hasidic community leaders to remove a 14-block stretch of bicycle lane on Bedford Avenue in South Williamsburg, a group of bike lane proponents took matters into their own hands early Monday morning. Interestingly, a post on StreetsBlog claims that the renegade painters included some members of the Hasidic community. “Scores of people in the Hasidic community are actually pissed about this bike lane being eradicated at the behest of traditionalists,” said Baruch Herzfeld, a local bike-shop operator and cycling advocate with ties to both the Jewish and secular groups in the area. “These members of the community may not want to ‘come out’ as bike warriors just yet, but they’re promising continuous action until the bike lane returns.”
Hipsters Caught Repainting Bedford Bike Lane [NY Post]
Video: Repainting the Bedford Avenue Bike Lane [NY Daily News]
Guerrilla Stripers Paint Back Bedford Bike Lane [StreetsBlog]
Men Arrested Trying To Repaint Bedford Bike Lane [Gothamist]
someone on another website said it best.. bikers deserve to get hit when they are riding in the street on stupid grandpa bikes. if youre going to ride in the street, at least buy a real road bike.
*rob*
lol, civil disobedience ain’t what it use to be.
Probably a good thing.
Despite my general belief that the bike lanes are being done badly throughout the city (by the city), I think I’m pro-guerrilla bike lane due to the extreme silliness of it all.
if it weren’t for unions, some people wouldnt get a taste of the “middle class”
dont hate
*rob*
now the city is gonna have to hire some road painting union to repaint the road and probably pay like 10,000 dollars.
It’s on!!!
Save a kitten, Kick a ‘cyclist’.
Save a puppy, fart on a hasid.
if i had a car, or even a driver’s license for that matter, those would be my bumper stickers.
politically correct? no.
do both groups suck rancid donkey balls? hells yea
*rob*
It was so nice walking home over the manhattan bridge pedestrian path last night. Didn’t have to watch out for the nutso cyclists. There were barricades because of construction on each end…so bikers used their own path for a change.
I couldn’t give a rats ass about cyclists but that’s pretty cool.
“Interestingly, a post on StreetsBlog claims that the renegade painters included some members of the Hasidic community.”
These things are rarely as black-and-white as they first seem…