Monday, May 31, 2010

Vancouver - Bike lobby still gripping city hall's handlebars

The social engineers at city hall, Mayor Gregor Robertson and Coun. Geoff Meggs among them, who have the hubris to believe they know better than regular citizens about how they should live their lives, had expected the figure would be 10 per cent by now. They're shocked and frustrated it is not, especially given all their efforts to promote cycling through the construction of bike lanes and their constant and frustrating erosion of the city's streets system.

Given that more than 96 per cent of residents -- voters, we might remind council -- haven't embraced cycling, you'd think they'd understand that a more democratic approach would be to halt further transfers of road space to bicycles from buses, trucks, cars and other motor vehicles, who already spend too much time idling in traffic thanks to our inefficient roads.

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