Bike Lanes Bad For The Environment?
August 20, 2008 / 8:26 pm • By Dr. Melissa Clouthier
Driving a vehicle is bad. The bigger the vehicle the badder you are. Walking could cause more CO2 emissions than driving. And now, now riding your bicycle is bad, too. I’m not sure about horse-drawn carriages and rickshaws, but I suspect they’re evil, too. The best you can hope for is teleportation and even that uses quantum physics which consumes atomic energy which just sounds really bad. The science isn’t in yet.
Anyway, about those bike lanes:
“We’re the ones keeping emissions from the air!” shouted Leah Shahum, executive director of the 10,000-strong San Francisco Bicycle Coalition, at a July 21 protest.
WSJ’s Phred Dvorak reports from a Critical Mass event in San Francisco, a monthly bike ride that draws hundreds of cyclists. She talks with bikers as well as disgruntled drivers.Mr. Anderson disagrees. Cars always will vastly outnumber bikes, he reasons, so allotting more street space to cyclists could cause more traffic jams, more idling and more pollution. Mr. Anderson says the city has been blinded by political correctness. It’s an “attempt by the anti-car fanatics to screw up our traffic on behalf of the bicycle fantasy,” he wrote in his blog this month.
Uh oh. Imagine. All that moral superiority and self-righteous self-satisfaction being unfounded. What a let down. No wonder the bicyclists are protesting. The next best thing is driving a Prius. Driving those seems to plaster a smug look on a driver’s face.
It’s not easy being green.
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November 12 2008 / 6:26 pm
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