Gentle Reminder for Every Week

[godsshoeshine]

Originally posted by Skeeter:
   

Originally posted by god's shoeshine:
  i also don't see why everyone is getting so crazy about chimbly's post.  

Because we had the exact same discussion last week and it quickly devolved into chimbly stating that all suburbanites were evil, selfish, horrible people, determined to kill everyone who lives in the city - all because they don't want to ride their bikes from Vienna to the club. [/b]

but...this one was obviously meant to be at least semihumorous. i repeat my "lighten up folks"

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

If you're a well paid yuppie and/or willing to live in a shacky studio or one bedroom apartment with an overpriced rent, you should be able to pull it off (living next to mass transit). Otherwise, you're selfish and evil, god damnit!
 
 

Originally posted by Rob_Gee_a.k.a _Guiny:
   

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
   

Originally posted by Skeeter:
 Because we had the exact same discussion last week and it quickly devolved into chimbly stating that all suburbanites were evil, selfish, horrible people, determined to kill everyone who lives in the city - all because they don't want to ride their bikes from Vienna to the club.

Guys, guys.  Come on.  I know we'll never live in my ideal world, and yes, I have explored my citizenship options for Norway.  
 
 I do think it's important to encourage people to use alternatives and to constantly remind people that all that traffic crap is actually something you *chose* to get involved in.  Americans just forget that nobody held a gun to their head and forced them to live far from other transit.  There are options. [/b]

It is impossible for every human being to live next to a transit. [/b]

[chaz]

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
  Guys, guys.  Come on.  I know we'll never live in my ideal world, and yes, I have explored my citizenship options for Norway.  
 
 I do think it's important to encourage people to use alternatives and to constantly remind people that all that traffic crap is actually something you *chose* to get involved in.  Americans just forget that nobody held a gun to their head and forced them to live far from other transit.  There are options.

Of course there are options for some people and I also encourage all people to use available alternatives (I take the bus to work everyday for chrissake), but the basis for your argument is just so short sighted.  Gimme a break.  Many circumstances lead people to wind up living where there do, primarily $$$.  Do you think it's just some sort of coincidence that typically in this country it's the low income low density areas that have limited access to public transit?  What are all those people supposed to do?  Move to NW DC where theres a subway stop every two blocks?  Do you think all the people who have to drive to their crappy minimum wage jobs in PG county or wherever do it by choice?  These choices exist for some people (generally white people with money) but tha sad fact is that most people get stranded with few options.

[thirsty moore]

Gentrifier.
 
 

Originally posted by chaz:
 I take the bus to work everyday for chrissake

[chaz]

Well as I always say, I'm against gentrification...Unless of course I happen to own property in the area!    
 
 

Originally posted by thirsty moore:
  Gentrifier.
 
   

Originally posted by chaz:
 I take the bus to work everyday for chrissake

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[mankie]

Ride my bike to the club!!!!  :eek:  Are you fucking nuts?? With the D.C. living pond-scum, my bike would be gone in a second, it's much more desirable than my car.
 
 Not only that, it's so much more fun playing kill the pedestrian in DC when you have 3,000 of metal under you instead of 17lbs of 358 steel.
 
 I like to put liquid lead in my gas tank just as I cross over the state line into DC, and watch the fuckers choke half to death as I drive by.

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
 I have explored my citizenship options for Norway.  

Do you speak Norsk?  Sounds great.  Go for it!

[mankie]

Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
   

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
 I have explored my citizenship options for Norway.  

Do you speak Norsk?  Sounds great.  Go for it! [/b]

You should try Holland, I think that is the cycling country of the world....they have government owned bikes that people just take and ride as needed, then leave them for the next person.
 
 Can you imagine that in DC.....one weekend and they'd all be missing, in some pawn shop in MD/VA.

[thirsty moore]

I've heard bicycle theft is really bad there.  People steal bikes and then toss them in the canals.
 
 EDIT -- this is in Amsterdam, which is in no way representative of Holland as a whole!  
 
 

Originally posted by Bollocks:
 You should try Holland, I think that is the cycling country of the world....they have government owned bikes that people just take and ride as needed, then leave them for the next person.

[this monkey]

I love the French more and more each day...
 http://www.reuters.com/printerFriendlyPopup.jhtml?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=5382586

[jkeisenh]

ok... so I do have Norwegian relatives, though I'm not a born Norwegian I am just one generation removed.
 
 Also, Madison, WI and many other prog towns have shared bike programs.  There they had red bikes and yellow bikes.  Red bikes were donated and you take it somewhere and leave it there.  It was always a treat to walk out of a place and see a red bike there-- it meant a faster trip home!  The yellow bikes are free but you check them out in your name and lock them-- like a free rental.  That program worked, but it was fueled by a community that kept donating bikes.
 
 

Originally posted by Bollocks:
   

Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
   

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
 I have explored my citizenship options for Norway.  

Do you speak Norsk?  Sounds great.  Go for it! [/b]

You should try Holland, I think that is the cycling country of the world....they have government owned bikes that people just take and ride as needed, then leave them for the next person.
 
 Can you imagine that in DC.....one weekend and they'd all be missing, in some pawn shop in MD/VA. [/b]

[Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer]

Why did I know all the bikes in Madison, Wisconsin would either be red or yellow?
 
 

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
  ok... so I do have Norwegian relatives, though I'm not a born Norwegian I am just one generation removed.
 
 Also, Madison, WI and many other prog towns have shared bike programs.  There they had red bikes and yellow bikes.  Red bikes were donated and you take it somewhere and leave it there.  It was always a treat to walk out of a place and see a red bike there-- it meant a faster trip home!  The yellow bikes are free but you check them out in your name and lock them-- like a free rental.  That program worked, but it was fueled by a community that kept donating bikes.
 
   

Originally posted by Bollocks:
   

Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
     

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
 I have explored my citizenship options for Norway.  

Do you speak Norsk?  Sounds great.  Go for it! [/b]

You should try Holland, I think that is the cycling country of the world....they have government owned bikes that people just take and ride as needed, then leave them for the next person.
 
 Can you imagine that in DC.....one weekend and they'd all be missing, in some pawn shop in MD/VA. [/b]

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[godsshoeshine]

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
  ok... so I do have Norwegian relatives, though I'm not a born Norwegian I am just one generation removed.
 
 Also, Madison, WI and many other prog towns have shared bike programs.  There they had red bikes and yellow bikes.  Red bikes were donated and you take it somewhere and leave it there.  It was always a treat to walk out of a place and see a red bike there-- it meant a faster trip home!  The yellow bikes are free but you check them out in your name and lock them-- like a free rental.  That program worked, but it was fueled by a community that kept donating bikes.
 
   

Originally posted by Bollocks:
   

Originally posted by Dupek Chopra:
     

Originally posted by chimbly sweep:
 I have explored my citizenship options for Norway.  

Do you speak Norsk?  Sounds great.  Go for it! [/b]

You should try Holland, I think that is the cycling country of the world....they have government owned bikes that people just take and ride as needed, then leave them for the next person.
 
 Can you imagine that in DC.....one weekend and they'd all be missing, in some pawn shop in MD/VA. [/b]

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olympia, wa has pink ones. also: paris to ban suvs?

[mankie]

WHOA NELLY!!! Mankie just thought of a business in DC...a feck'n goldmine of a business.
 
 RICKSHAWS! I'm going to buy a fleet of rickshaws to transport the burbanites about....we can sit and wait at the state line and just pick them up on the way into town.
 
 Chimbly....you in?  

[jkeisenh]

Sure, why not?  
 
 Did anyone see the article about how South Africa is going to start mixing donkey carts into its public transit fleet?  Can't find the article right now but it's pretty funny, that.