Hello, Yupette,
Regarding "Bike to Work Week" we have been invited to participate in this event but the streets in our neighborhood are simply too broken and potholed for us to consider riding bicycles until the streets are fixed. We've e-mailed messages to the Arlington County Board and Arlington County Manager asking them to fix the streets first, before any more is spent on sports, recreation, and entertainment.
Best,
Ted
22204
21 comments:
About time we stopped going along with every special interest group that's all out for itself at our expense.
I agree. Cracked and broken streets are too dangerous for bicycles.
send e-mail to countyboard at arlingtonva dot us and countymanager at arlingtonva dot us
Where are the soccer moms who should better?
Trolley rails are death traps for bicyclists.
No fooling, check out the complaints from Portland bicyclists.
FYI, Fi$ette drives his Prius everywhere all the time, except on Bike to Work Day.
Whatever happened to Mountain Bikes? Especially those with independent suspension on both wheels.
Biketards are taking over Arlington's crumbling streets on weekends and charging us $40 to ride over them. In our own neighborhoods.
Biketards = Yuptard Boyz + $2,000 Yuptard Toyz.
So Libby Garvey has finally consented to having her Fairlington street repaved, depriving her favorite non-profit - Organ Donation of America - of customers. Way to go Libby. Tough choice. Good call.
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Red light? What red light? No red lights around here. Oh, THAT red light.
Pave S. Buchanan Street in Barcroft and I'll ride a bicycle in Barcroft.
Dump the entire County Board, starting with demanding that Fi$ette retire and pursue a new career as a sports, recreation, and entertainment consultant.
Ever watch that classic bicycle movie "Breaking Away"? The Lance Spandex aka Guido Campagnolo types were around 35 years ago and were just as obnoxious as today.
County is spending $1.6 million to refurbish a dog park. Streets around the dog park are crumbling. I won't vote for any incumbent. All they care about is funding special-interest sports, entertainment, and recreation programs and projects.
County spent $2 million for a tiny public park / plaza at Penrose Square. Including $450,000 for public art. Pike needs repaving. Building expensive public plazas is what's important to them.
The Rust Belt (where Fisette, Hynes, Garvey, and Zimmerman grew up) is full of crumbling infrastructure from the manufacturing era 50 years ago. They are taxing, spending, and borrowing just as their parents did. They are clueless that the borrow-and-spend-for-warfighting era is about to end for our region.
If someone who is 27 years old and does not have health insurance and is earning $24,000 a year from a junk job Zimmerman et. al. created on the Pike is injured in a bicycle accident, who pays for that? We do.
If someone is injured in a bicycle / streetcar rail accident, who pays for that?
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