Wednesday Links
Developers With Subway Escalators Try to Ease Prickly Relations [NY Times] Weiner: Declare Brooklyn a Disaster Area Over Blizzard [NY Post] Bloomberg’s Approval Rating Hits an 8-Year Low [NY Daily News] Kruger Croney to Star in Brighton Reality Show [SB] Court St. Site Put on a State Hazardous List [Eagle] Indicted Kruger: I’m Not Going…
Developers With Subway Escalators Try to Ease Prickly Relations [NY Times]
Weiner: Declare Brooklyn a Disaster Area Over Blizzard [NY Post]
Bloomberg’s Approval Rating Hits an 8-Year Low [NY Daily News]
Kruger Croney to Star in Brighton Reality Show [SB]
Court St. Site Put on a State Hazardous List [Eagle]
Indicted Kruger: I’m Not Going Anywhere [BK Paper]
LPC Approves Plans for 110 Amity Conversion [Curbed]
Hotel Williamsburg to Open in May [Curbed]
BBP Station to Charge Electric Vehicles [NY1]
Potholes Causing Auto Damage [NY1]
Homeless Town Hall Meeting 2.0 [NYS]
they havent done any pot hole repairs down here on 2nd ave between 65th street and 44th street. I can attest to that.
@nd Ave here is a fukkin mess, especially in front of Lutheren
The anti-bike lane crowd is completely overreacting though. They’re having a complete meltdown over it.
“They city just spent something like 75 million dollars busting people for low level pot offenses. ”
don’t get me started….
By Boerumresident on March 16, 2011 10:02 AM
I don’t get the CEO accusation in the case of bike lanes.
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Personally, I wasn’t referring at all to the bike lanes, which are OK with me. Frankly, I’m puzzled over all the pro-bike-lane/anti-bike-lane rancor, on both sides. It’s just not that big a deal.
“that people who get so outraged that their hard “earned” tax dollars are going to fund bike infrastructure….well… they’re douchebags.”
They city just spent something like 75 million dollars busting people for low level pot offenses.
I don’t get the CEO accusation in the case of bike lanes.
Certainly in the case of PPW, IIRC the whole thing went through multiple presentations to the local CB. That’s why I don’t get the whole “disenfranchised” argument being made — bike lanes have been presented normally, and they were certainly an issue in the last election, and Thompson went out of his way to cast doubt on their implementation. (I voted for Thompson, but the bike issue was not a factor in my vote personally.)
I don’t bike, so my only issues are do bike lanes really affect my ability to park (not noticeably, but I don’t drive every day), does it make the streets safer (apparently), and do they make the streets feel safer (yes to this pedestrian).
I crossed party lines to vote for Bloomberg. He has definitely done a lot of positive, even landmark things for the city. But the CEO mayor thing doesn’t seem like such a good idea anymore. Term limits were in place for a reason.
“that people who get so outraged that their hard “earned” tax dollars are going to fund bike infrastructure”
Because anyone that opposes a bike lane couldn’t possibly earn their income (without quotation marks).
a good distinction – Anti Anti-cycling Zealot? – or AAZ for short.