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From: BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Judges discover constitutional rights to bike lanes and also drug use in homeless shelters
Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 19:25:34 -0000 (UTC)
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On May 6, 2025 at 12:08:20 PM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:

> On 2025-05-06 1:20 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>  On May 6, 2025 at 9:43:26 AM PDT, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
>>  wrote:
>>  
>>>  America is not the only country that has activist judges. We have them
>>>  here in Canada too. Brian Lilley and Adam Zivo describe several cases of
>>>  judicial activism and consider remedies like electing judges rather than
>>>  appointing them as we currently do.
>>> 
>>>  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7R4cVgqfZA [16 minutes]
>>  
>>  I misread this at first and thought you'd found an *American* judge ruling
>>  that bike lanes are constitutionally protected. I was about to lose my shit.
>>  
> I know you are frustrated by the bike lanes in your own area and how 
> they are being made by closing car lanes in already over-crowded 
> streets.

And they sit completely unused.

This is Southern California with its perfect year-around weather, so naturally
many people bike.

For recreation!

They do it on weekends and holidays on the dedicated bike trails in the hills
and on the beach. Not on the city roads. They don't use bikes to commute to
work or run grocery errands or any of that stuff. I couldn't bike to my former
job and survive the trip even if I wanted to bike 48 miles/day (24 to the
office and 24 back home). There's no way to get from where I live to downtown
that doesn't involve cutting through some of the most violent and
gang-infested neighborhoods in the country. Imagine how long a white guy
pedaling along on his bike would last in Compton or Watts or Inglewood.

> Toronto city council is gung ho for bike lanes - as are just about all 
> the municipalities in this area. Virtually EVERY candidate for public 
> office ritually affirms their support for bike lanes, as if there is 
> some widespread demand for them. If there is, I have yet to hear it: I'm 
> convinced that this is coming from city planners because that is what 
> their governing bodies have deemed the right thing to do.

Here it's the Climate Cult that's responsible for the proliferation of bike
lanes everywhere. They really believe 14 million people are going to give up
their cars and start biking vast distances to work and back everyday. Like I
said, my trip would be 48 miles. But there are hundreds of thousands (maybe
millions) of people who live in the Valley and commute into downtown or to
places like Hollywood or Century City. Those people would not only have that
same 50-mile roundtrip commute, but they have a mountain range in between
their homes and their work. Nothing like biking through the Sepulveda Pass and
over the Santa Monica mountains in high summer when the temps are 90-100
degrees. Even if you survive the coronary, you arrive at work a sweaty sopping
mess.

The Climate Cult is simply nuts when it comes to their utopian vision of bike
lanes, just like they are with everything else.

> We used to be able to park in front of the house overnight if we wanted, 
> for example if there was an overnight guest who'd come by car. But the 
> city banned overnight parking many years ago. I don't remember the 
> rationale they used but I think they were worried about snow removal 
> being more difficult if cars were parked on the street.

Our city bans overnight parking to keep people who live in their cars and vans
from setting up a permanent 'residence' right in front of people's homes. It's
an anti-vagrant ordinance and thank god for it.

> Then a few years 
> back, they put in bike lanes - bike lanes that basically only run down 
> our street but don't connect to anything else, making them esentially 
> useless for getting around town. Then they put in a cross walk which has 
> an island in the middle of the road but which is almost never used. (I 
> can see it from my kitchen window.) Because of the island, it is now 
> illegal to even STOP on our block so people actually risk a ticket even 
> for stopping for a moment to drop someone off. Progress!