Instead of figuring out some clandestine way to drop KC’s gas prices, your mayor has decided that you need to get your fat tail on a bicycle and start riding the streets of Kansas City.
Is that it?
Well, there’s more. I think it’s time to request the governor’s assistance in removing this guy from office. The governor needs to be Blunt and step up to the plate. How else on earth will we be able to explain why this mayor wants to spend $1.7 million towards fixing the sewer grates so that local cyclists won’t get tire damage? Oh, they’ll be able to buy a few signs and bike racks with the money as well.
Between this and the council trying to jack up property values so they can fund these old museums, I don’t know why people have to look long and hard to see why the city is in the bad shape it’s in.
Where did the love affair for bikes come in? What is it to be known as the “bicycle capital of the U.S.”? How will these dollars help reduce crime? How many city workers are being let go in order to shift that money towards the few who ride bikes? Is anyone asking these questions?
I’ve got a bike. I ride it from time to time. I don’t sit out there and complain about how bad the roads are for my bike trip. I’m more concerned with getting back home without getting hit by a car, shot, mugged, or bit by some pit bull who isn’t chained up. I could care less about my tire being swallowed up by some sewer grate. I just don’t want to be swallowed up by some wild dog.
C’mon, Mr. Mayor. I have to call your ignorance on this one.
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May 15, 2008 at 11:13 am
If we had some bicycle lanes maybe you wouldn’t worry so much about being hit. Part of reducing our overall gasoline usage is to help people use alternative forms of transport.
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