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From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@gXXmail.com>
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Subject: Re: NYC tax dollars at work
Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 19:48:35 -0400
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On 5/14/2025 6:53 PM, AMuzi wrote:
> On 5/14/2025 3:12 PM, sms wrote:
>> On 5/14/2025 9:42 AM, Shadow wrote:
>>> On Wed, 14 May 2025 09:08:59 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> It's not California's Train to Nowhere, but still:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://nypost.com/2025/05/13/us-news/fuming-cyclists- rip-nyc-for- 
>>>> taking-sweet-time-to-finish-west-side-bike- path-leaving-dangerous- 
>>>> detours-behind/
>>>
>>>     At a guess, the governor/mayor is not a repuglican.
>>>     If the bikeway was being built by the orange thing, the
>>> headlines would be "predicted to be finished in 10 years, it only took
>>> 5, and it's the biggest, bestist bike path EVER, and it ONLY cost US$
>>> 10 million".
>>>     The nypost is a #FAKE_NEWS conduit, IMHO.
>>>     []'s
>>
>> Take anything written in the NY Post with many many grains of salt.
>>
> 
> Same story three weeks ago in streetsblog
> 
> https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/04/24/parks-dept-controls-vital-bike- 
> infrastructure-but-treats-riders-like-an-afterthought

I object to phrases like "the only car-free safe infrastructure." Far 
too many people think bicycling on ordinary roads is horrendously 
dangerous. I suspect the bulk of them have never examined relevant data, 
and/or are incompetent at math.

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- Frank Krygowski