It looks like Resident Briben is executing the globalists' "Build Back Better/Great Reset" plan to perfection. Mass unvetted immigration of military-aged males, stoking chaos in the cities by releasing criminals, depleting our energy reserves, printing money to infinite, decimating the military with woke ideology and vaccine mandates, an…
It looks like Resident Briben is executing the globalists' "Build Back Better/Great Reset" plan to perfection. Mass unvetted immigration of military-aged males, stoking chaos in the cities by releasing criminals, depleting our energy reserves, printing money to infinite, decimating the military with woke ideology and vaccine mandates, and looting the treasury and redistributing wealth through war. Did I miss anything?
Oh wait, destroying cities through these federally funded initiatives to eliminate zoning, incentivize overbuilding of apartments and other infill initiatives designed to increase 'density' and putting in 'road diets' to make traffic even worse under the guise of 'complete streets'. Despite being red-leaning, the globalist agenda is in full display in my city. People are starting to wake up and push back but a lot of damage is already done.
Good one. That’s happening near me too. New bus lanes, new bike lanes, and meanwhile all within the same four lane space that can’t be widened because of the city buildings on either side. So net result is fewer travel lanes for cars. Never thought of this as yet one more manipulative tactic to edge out cars in favor of mass transit (or no transit). Had always viewed it as simply ill-conceived.
I live in a small town with very few roads that might be used for fleeing wildfires. With the same old "wisdom" recently the one 4 lane road leading to the I5 was reconfigured with bike lanes which is bad enough but with permanent CONCRETE barriers to protect the bikers, so essentially a major egress is now useless. This was implemented two years after the town was almost totally burned down. There is so much more I could relate but we all are seeing it.
Oh, good grief, I never would have thought of this either. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Yeah, bike lanes are often actually not especially safe for bicyclists, contrary to general wisdom. They do in fact need to be separated somehow from the street, in many situations.
But reducing lanes for car travel is a poor solution.
In my small town, federal dollars, Gretchen Whitmer's political aspirations, and greedy local politicians signing non-disclosure agreements are all working to destroy this historic community surrounded by agriculture. We are the site for the new Ford EV battery plant, which will morph into 3000 acres of heavy industry, with absolutely no possibility that community residents can vote on the issue. We're fighting it, but it's probably a losing battle. Even though Ford has put a pause on construction, there's plenty of money for the best farming land in the county to continue to be destroyed right on the banks of the Kalamazoo River. An EV battery plant using Chinese battery technology on the banks of a strategic river destroying prime agricultural land without the consent of the governed--sounds like a good idea to me.
My heart goes out to sane Michiganders; a beautiful state being destroyed by a horrible illegitimate governor. I lived in WI my entire life, until 14 yrs ago when I moved to MO., and it hurts me to see the upper Midwest stolen through illegitimate elections and fraud and the inevitable downfall of solid red states because of leftist policies.
We have a Panasonic battery plant going in here, although they are utilizing a brownfield site that used to be an ammunition plant way on the outskirts of the KS side of the KC metro. State of KS gave them ONE BILLION in incentives. The insanity never ends....
Sadly, battery plants are built with an expiry date, and then they'll be left to rot. I'm in NE KS and I'm disgusted by Kelly.... She's an east coast plant.
KS Republicans overall tend to puzzle me. I have relatives throughout SE KS, and my daughter in law is from Garnett; all are R's, but most seem to gravitate to very soft R policies. Most of them did not care for Trump, loved Jerry Moran, Bob Dole, Nancy Kassebaum and the like. KC transplants are turning JOCO blue and that is the real problem. Douglas, Johnson, Wyandotte and Sedgewick run the state. At least you got Roger Marshall across the finish line. Bollier outpent him by $10 million and still lost, which should give you a little hope.
I'm still convinced Johnson county has a serious voting integrity problem. I've looked at state house seat by state house seat and every single one "votes" 10-15% more democratic than you would expect based on registrations. And the whole county "voted" for Biden in 2020 - first time it "voted" for a democrap for president in 116 years.
Yes, Republicans here don't tend to stir the pot. I often wonder if it's because this area is seen as flyover country, and not much really happens here. I'm a transplant from NZ. I really like Roger Marshall too, not sure about Moran though. I'm in Shawnee country, and it's quite blue as well. Love SE KS. Especially Woodson and Chautauqua counties.
If you know Woodson, you probably know Piqua. That is where my dad was born. Still have a second cousin who farms there, but the town's best days were long ago. Missouri is very different. 30 years ago it was a mostly blue 'Truman democrat' state. (which is nothing like today's D party). My grandparents, first generation from Eastern Europe, and their 6 daughters and family were all D's until one aunt & uncle and a lot of cousins flipped in the Reagan years, as did I. Was a purple state in 2012 but Trump turned it red seemingly overnight. Got 80% in some counties. People never took their Trump signs down, paint Trump on their hay bales, and fly their Trump flags. (Hubby is in sales and drives all over the state and sends me pics) State party is a bunch of wimps but we are working on that, and our governor is gone in 2024, he has been mostly disappointing, but then so are the 3 front runners for next year. At least you know what you are getting with Laura Kelly. Ya never know with Parson.
Yes I know Piqua. A lot of the small towns down that way are past their best days. I think they're the best kept secret in the state. I love Toronto, and Toronto Lake. Will rent an Airbnb once in a while down there with a friend and we spend a weekend writing and walking on the waterfront. I've been looking at Barry County in MO. Some nice places down there close to the water. Love Lake of the Ozarks as well. My son works there off and on between Key West, FL during the differing seasons. SE KS is very red, and awesome to see the flags and Trump signs.
Yes, true, my son graduated from Pittsburg State in 2019, solid red area, and very few of his professors were woke, at least in the College of Technology anyway. Had a few libs in his gen eds.
Overall MO. Is much more conservative than KS. I’m not originally from either and have found MO. to be more consistently conservative compared to KS and one of the reasons we chose MO.
It's funny though, my dad's brothers, mom and cousins were all R's going back decades. My dad was the only D on his side of the family except for a small handful of woke cousins. My moms side, all life long Missourians are about 50-50 R/D at this point of who's still living. But the MO R's do not get along with the Kansas R's when we have had a 'both sides of the family' get together, which is rare now, as my dad and most of of the aunts and uncles have passed or are in failing health, but even a decade ago it was almost like they were in different parties.
Have heard some say that farms and rural communities in the western half of that state are recipients of a lot of Fed dollars and strong fiscal conservatives threaten that, but have never done any vetting of that. Personally think KS biggest problem is KC libs flocking to KS and then wanting to turn the places they move to 'get away' from the problems - crime, high taxes, bad schools, into the places they left. Rural counties surrounding KC on the MO side seeing the same thing.
Well we are a blue county in a red state. My town is relatively red but the blue is growing and too many conservatives are either clueless or apathetic.
I hear so many people say I don't have time to follow politics because I have work and family obligations, etc. They just don't realize that is the goal and just like that, before you know it, we have an illegitimate president, all the news is propaganda, we are taxed to death, we are censored, or worse. The powers that be totally took advantage of the fact that most Americans just aren't paying attention.
Yes I am so sick of hearing that too. I have those too. Several of my friends actually bring their kids with them to political things, especially junior high and above, although some of the meetings we set up an activity table in the back for some of the younger ones and no one minds if they get a little noisy from time to time. My son spoke at some city council meetings when he was school aged. My parents took me along to political things growing up too. Granted, I do a lot more now that my kids are grown and gone but even an hour to attend a public meeting on something helps. Spend an evening texting friends reminding them to vote in a local election. Lots of little things!
Wow, I didn’t realize that there was federal funding pushing this urban density and zoning stuff. I have observed it independently in 2 completely different states where we spend time. Is there also federal funding to build ubiquitous cell towers in residential neighborhoods?
Our region is served by a regional group (just a quick look at the website will tell you what they are REALLY about https://www.marc.org/) who is a conduit for federal grants for all sorts of wokeness. Cities gobble up this 'free money' from the Feds for all kinds of things. One city of 20K or so residents got nearly $200K for this new 'strategic comprehensive plan' process that included all of the hallmarks of the whole '15 minute city' phenomena. I do business research for a living and just wrapped up a project doing competitive intelligence for a Landscape Architecture client firm which included looking at LOTS of different city council meeting agendas, documents and video. Every LA firm I looked at has been making bank from all levels of gov in these planning, development and implementation of green new deal projects and dollars are overwhelmingly Fed. I can show you project after project that are as close to cookie cutter as you can get and since the vast majority of citizens pay ZERO attention to local meetings or even vote in local elections they have no freaking clue this is going on until it is too late to stop it. But the Left IS paying attention, and when these projects have the 'public input' part, the vast majority of the people who attend, are these utopians who lap this stuff up and applaud it. I have seen this in my city since the Obama administration and been trying to fight it but up until the past few years have been mostly a lone voice in the wilderness. I say it over and over again: LOCAL MATTERS! People need to start paying attention.
It is just delusional and anti-human. I think the WEF enlisted our governor Poisy Hat to make the Motor City the bike city and EV area, despite the fact that there are no sidewalks in Detroit and winter is 7 months and they don't plow the side streets unless we get 5 feet of snow or something. They got some big green delusional grant to destroy and gentrify the park near us, which, ordinarily is home to quadrillions of squirrels, raccoons, white tail deer, coyotes, crackheads selling and imbibing, driving at meth speeds, and male prostitution, organized via text message. First they numbered the shelters, and now they are making bike lanes and snow hills with huge amounts of construction money coming from some green source. So perhaps once every few months some spandex bicyclists will drive through the drug dealers and exhibitionist prostitutes, though the dousing with glyphosate has been killing the wildlife. I figure it is for Governor Poisy Hat and Rhashida Tlaib of Hamas to roll around with Larry Fink on the Gatsby lawns like Springtime for Hitler, synchronized, with some greedy CEOs and Chinese and Iranian spies hiding behind the maples. All on that MidEast drug that the Iranians feed to Hamas, just as the Waffen SS put all the soldiers on meth.
Yes our city has also spent big bucks putting in sidewalks and wider trail-like sidewalks (that ostensibly both bikers and walkers could both use). My hubby is a runner, though, and in the winter when they plow the streets, huge mounds of snow, that turn into giant dirty ice boulders almost completely cover these sidewalks rendering them mostly unusable.
Also, I love to cycle but it turns out that the bike lanes are being pushed by the developers so that the restaurants no longer can depend on parking spaces nearby, leading to neighborhood impoverishment and rezoning to make it more dense. In fact one of the major bike associations turns out to be largely funded by developers.
Yes, our local bike enthusiast group has been successful for years pushing for more and more 'road diet'/complete streets projects that take out lanes of traffic to put in more and more bike lanes, making traffic even worse than it already is. One road diet road near me I have NEVER seen a cyclist on it even once, despite traveling this road sometimes several times a day. I am in the midwest, and used to own a convertible. The number of 'top down' kinds of days (that I reason are also good cycling days) is probably only a third of the year. Our weather is schizophrenic - it can change from warm and sunny to cold and rain or snow at the drop of a hat. Super hot summer and super cold winters. No one is biking during the extremes. I have a neighbor who is a cycling enthusiast, but only goes out for recreation, and he and his group only go on the many trails and parks we have, they rarely go on actual roads as distracted drivers are a menace.
Same near us. As one of our protesters said, “they don’t try to put bike lanes on I 95”… So why put them on major streets where there are traffic lights and pollution?? In Europe they try to put bike paths off the Main Streets. We don’t mind having indirect more bucolic and less trafficked paths!
We have a wonderful trail system in our area, including one that is a former rail line that cyclists and hikers alike have plenty of room. Love going there when the weather is decent. If you are a cycle enthusiast, MO has the KATY trail https://katytrailmo.com/ (another former rail line) that nearly criss crosses the entire state. Lots of nice stops along the route, wineries, B&B's, etc. Our local one has just a few mile gap before it links to the KATY trail but has not yet gotten funding (and would require cooperation between multiple jurisdictions) All the cyclists I know use the trails, not the roads. But then I don't know any of the 'activist' ones other than I see them at all the meetings. The leader is a doctor who loves to wax about the 'health benefits' but willing to bet he drives his car to his medical practice.
I support the ability to commute on a bicycle even if it’s just nice weather or April to November. During Covid our public transportation system basically stopped. So I tried to bicycle from one end of town to the other without getting into the traffic, and it was almost impossible to figure out all the little roads (no help from google.) I don’t want to be riding on a road with lots of traffic, who does? The whole premise is cockamamie.
I sure wouldn't want to bike on a busy road these days, what with people texting and driving, and guys who are intentionally killing cyclists either for fun or as a gang initiation rite. Not to mention people having "medical emergencies" at the wheel.
Not to mention getting to work all sweaty and dirty 😕 Unless there’s a way to shower and change, I’m not sure I’d be up for that. Especially with all the other issues mentioned.
My understanding from talking to someone more knowledgeable than I am is that developers want to get certain "green" certifications. Probably they are incentivized by government. But to get those certifications, there are are a certain number of points they have to get. They chose to get points through easy things like bike lanes rather than hard things that cost a lot. Bike lanes and other low hanging fruit are what they go for to get their certification, which the local governments just eat up. They say, "wow, your build will have this green certification? Well, you get the green light, then!"
2017 my apartment complex forced green energy on us. Put in led’s everywhere and lit up the parking lot. I had to get a note from my doctor to get my regular shower head back on from the useless energy efficient one. The bushes and trees started dying after they installed the new lighting but it could be the 5 g also or the chemtrail pollution killing the plants.
The entire administration and heads of most 3 letter agencies need to be brought up on charges of treason. When found guilty, the highest punishment needs to meted out immediately. Every single thing they do brings more destruction upon America.
It looks like Resident Briben is executing the globalists' "Build Back Better/Great Reset" plan to perfection. Mass unvetted immigration of military-aged males, stoking chaos in the cities by releasing criminals, depleting our energy reserves, printing money to infinite, decimating the military with woke ideology and vaccine mandates, and looting the treasury and redistributing wealth through war. Did I miss anything?
Probably. I can't keep up any more.
Oh wait, destroying cities through these federally funded initiatives to eliminate zoning, incentivize overbuilding of apartments and other infill initiatives designed to increase 'density' and putting in 'road diets' to make traffic even worse under the guise of 'complete streets'. Despite being red-leaning, the globalist agenda is in full display in my city. People are starting to wake up and push back but a lot of damage is already done.
“Road diets” in the guise of complete streets.
Good one. That’s happening near me too. New bus lanes, new bike lanes, and meanwhile all within the same four lane space that can’t be widened because of the city buildings on either side. So net result is fewer travel lanes for cars. Never thought of this as yet one more manipulative tactic to edge out cars in favor of mass transit (or no transit). Had always viewed it as simply ill-conceived.
Plus, the coming gas crisis.
I live in a small town with very few roads that might be used for fleeing wildfires. With the same old "wisdom" recently the one 4 lane road leading to the I5 was reconfigured with bike lanes which is bad enough but with permanent CONCRETE barriers to protect the bikers, so essentially a major egress is now useless. This was implemented two years after the town was almost totally burned down. There is so much more I could relate but we all are seeing it.
Oh, good grief, I never would have thought of this either. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
Yeah, bike lanes are often actually not especially safe for bicyclists, contrary to general wisdom. They do in fact need to be separated somehow from the street, in many situations.
But reducing lanes for car travel is a poor solution.
Not if the goal is to take away all the cars and have 15 min cities.
I live in New Hampshire and it is just starting here, so please relate what can come in the future. Perhaps it can be stopped.
Sounds like Baltimore. Plenty of bike lanes and NO ONE RIDING BIKES! Could it be the crime?
Oh no, this is all funded and initiated from Central Planning. Plus one in the 'federal government funding is out of control' column.
In my small town, federal dollars, Gretchen Whitmer's political aspirations, and greedy local politicians signing non-disclosure agreements are all working to destroy this historic community surrounded by agriculture. We are the site for the new Ford EV battery plant, which will morph into 3000 acres of heavy industry, with absolutely no possibility that community residents can vote on the issue. We're fighting it, but it's probably a losing battle. Even though Ford has put a pause on construction, there's plenty of money for the best farming land in the county to continue to be destroyed right on the banks of the Kalamazoo River. An EV battery plant using Chinese battery technology on the banks of a strategic river destroying prime agricultural land without the consent of the governed--sounds like a good idea to me.
My heart goes out to sane Michiganders; a beautiful state being destroyed by a horrible illegitimate governor. I lived in WI my entire life, until 14 yrs ago when I moved to MO., and it hurts me to see the upper Midwest stolen through illegitimate elections and fraud and the inevitable downfall of solid red states because of leftist policies.
We have a Panasonic battery plant going in here, although they are utilizing a brownfield site that used to be an ammunition plant way on the outskirts of the KS side of the KC metro. State of KS gave them ONE BILLION in incentives. The insanity never ends....
Sadly, battery plants are built with an expiry date, and then they'll be left to rot. I'm in NE KS and I'm disgusted by Kelly.... She's an east coast plant.
KS Republicans overall tend to puzzle me. I have relatives throughout SE KS, and my daughter in law is from Garnett; all are R's, but most seem to gravitate to very soft R policies. Most of them did not care for Trump, loved Jerry Moran, Bob Dole, Nancy Kassebaum and the like. KC transplants are turning JOCO blue and that is the real problem. Douglas, Johnson, Wyandotte and Sedgewick run the state. At least you got Roger Marshall across the finish line. Bollier outpent him by $10 million and still lost, which should give you a little hope.
I'm still convinced Johnson county has a serious voting integrity problem. I've looked at state house seat by state house seat and every single one "votes" 10-15% more democratic than you would expect based on registrations. And the whole county "voted" for Biden in 2020 - first time it "voted" for a democrap for president in 116 years.
Yes, Republicans here don't tend to stir the pot. I often wonder if it's because this area is seen as flyover country, and not much really happens here. I'm a transplant from NZ. I really like Roger Marshall too, not sure about Moran though. I'm in Shawnee country, and it's quite blue as well. Love SE KS. Especially Woodson and Chautauqua counties.
If you know Woodson, you probably know Piqua. That is where my dad was born. Still have a second cousin who farms there, but the town's best days were long ago. Missouri is very different. 30 years ago it was a mostly blue 'Truman democrat' state. (which is nothing like today's D party). My grandparents, first generation from Eastern Europe, and their 6 daughters and family were all D's until one aunt & uncle and a lot of cousins flipped in the Reagan years, as did I. Was a purple state in 2012 but Trump turned it red seemingly overnight. Got 80% in some counties. People never took their Trump signs down, paint Trump on their hay bales, and fly their Trump flags. (Hubby is in sales and drives all over the state and sends me pics) State party is a bunch of wimps but we are working on that, and our governor is gone in 2024, he has been mostly disappointing, but then so are the 3 front runners for next year. At least you know what you are getting with Laura Kelly. Ya never know with Parson.
Yes I know Piqua. A lot of the small towns down that way are past their best days. I think they're the best kept secret in the state. I love Toronto, and Toronto Lake. Will rent an Airbnb once in a while down there with a friend and we spend a weekend writing and walking on the waterfront. I've been looking at Barry County in MO. Some nice places down there close to the water. Love Lake of the Ozarks as well. My son works there off and on between Key West, FL during the differing seasons. SE KS is very red, and awesome to see the flags and Trump signs.
Yes, true, my son graduated from Pittsburg State in 2019, solid red area, and very few of his professors were woke, at least in the College of Technology anyway. Had a few libs in his gen eds.
Overall MO. Is much more conservative than KS. I’m not originally from either and have found MO. to be more consistently conservative compared to KS and one of the reasons we chose MO.
It's funny though, my dad's brothers, mom and cousins were all R's going back decades. My dad was the only D on his side of the family except for a small handful of woke cousins. My moms side, all life long Missourians are about 50-50 R/D at this point of who's still living. But the MO R's do not get along with the Kansas R's when we have had a 'both sides of the family' get together, which is rare now, as my dad and most of of the aunts and uncles have passed or are in failing health, but even a decade ago it was almost like they were in different parties.
My brother lives in SE KS and can confirm.
Kansas needs more "show me" and less "please like me pretty please".
Have heard some say that farms and rural communities in the western half of that state are recipients of a lot of Fed dollars and strong fiscal conservatives threaten that, but have never done any vetting of that. Personally think KS biggest problem is KC libs flocking to KS and then wanting to turn the places they move to 'get away' from the problems - crime, high taxes, bad schools, into the places they left. Rural counties surrounding KC on the MO side seeing the same thing.
In the "Build Back Better" world, it's a great idea!
Same thing happening in my area. It's really hard being a red county in a blue state.
Well we are a blue county in a red state. My town is relatively red but the blue is growing and too many conservatives are either clueless or apathetic.
I hear so many people say I don't have time to follow politics because I have work and family obligations, etc. They just don't realize that is the goal and just like that, before you know it, we have an illegitimate president, all the news is propaganda, we are taxed to death, we are censored, or worse. The powers that be totally took advantage of the fact that most Americans just aren't paying attention.
Yes I am so sick of hearing that too. I have those too. Several of my friends actually bring their kids with them to political things, especially junior high and above, although some of the meetings we set up an activity table in the back for some of the younger ones and no one minds if they get a little noisy from time to time. My son spoke at some city council meetings when he was school aged. My parents took me along to political things growing up too. Granted, I do a lot more now that my kids are grown and gone but even an hour to attend a public meeting on something helps. Spend an evening texting friends reminding them to vote in a local election. Lots of little things!
Mine, too. I still prefer to stay in my county anyway, away from Wokeville.
Wow, I didn’t realize that there was federal funding pushing this urban density and zoning stuff. I have observed it independently in 2 completely different states where we spend time. Is there also federal funding to build ubiquitous cell towers in residential neighborhoods?
Our region is served by a regional group (just a quick look at the website will tell you what they are REALLY about https://www.marc.org/) who is a conduit for federal grants for all sorts of wokeness. Cities gobble up this 'free money' from the Feds for all kinds of things. One city of 20K or so residents got nearly $200K for this new 'strategic comprehensive plan' process that included all of the hallmarks of the whole '15 minute city' phenomena. I do business research for a living and just wrapped up a project doing competitive intelligence for a Landscape Architecture client firm which included looking at LOTS of different city council meeting agendas, documents and video. Every LA firm I looked at has been making bank from all levels of gov in these planning, development and implementation of green new deal projects and dollars are overwhelmingly Fed. I can show you project after project that are as close to cookie cutter as you can get and since the vast majority of citizens pay ZERO attention to local meetings or even vote in local elections they have no freaking clue this is going on until it is too late to stop it. But the Left IS paying attention, and when these projects have the 'public input' part, the vast majority of the people who attend, are these utopians who lap this stuff up and applaud it. I have seen this in my city since the Obama administration and been trying to fight it but up until the past few years have been mostly a lone voice in the wilderness. I say it over and over again: LOCAL MATTERS! People need to start paying attention.
It is just delusional and anti-human. I think the WEF enlisted our governor Poisy Hat to make the Motor City the bike city and EV area, despite the fact that there are no sidewalks in Detroit and winter is 7 months and they don't plow the side streets unless we get 5 feet of snow or something. They got some big green delusional grant to destroy and gentrify the park near us, which, ordinarily is home to quadrillions of squirrels, raccoons, white tail deer, coyotes, crackheads selling and imbibing, driving at meth speeds, and male prostitution, organized via text message. First they numbered the shelters, and now they are making bike lanes and snow hills with huge amounts of construction money coming from some green source. So perhaps once every few months some spandex bicyclists will drive through the drug dealers and exhibitionist prostitutes, though the dousing with glyphosate has been killing the wildlife. I figure it is for Governor Poisy Hat and Rhashida Tlaib of Hamas to roll around with Larry Fink on the Gatsby lawns like Springtime for Hitler, synchronized, with some greedy CEOs and Chinese and Iranian spies hiding behind the maples. All on that MidEast drug that the Iranians feed to Hamas, just as the Waffen SS put all the soldiers on meth.
Madness!
Yes our city has also spent big bucks putting in sidewalks and wider trail-like sidewalks (that ostensibly both bikers and walkers could both use). My hubby is a runner, though, and in the winter when they plow the streets, huge mounds of snow, that turn into giant dirty ice boulders almost completely cover these sidewalks rendering them mostly unusable.
Also, I love to cycle but it turns out that the bike lanes are being pushed by the developers so that the restaurants no longer can depend on parking spaces nearby, leading to neighborhood impoverishment and rezoning to make it more dense. In fact one of the major bike associations turns out to be largely funded by developers.
Yes, our local bike enthusiast group has been successful for years pushing for more and more 'road diet'/complete streets projects that take out lanes of traffic to put in more and more bike lanes, making traffic even worse than it already is. One road diet road near me I have NEVER seen a cyclist on it even once, despite traveling this road sometimes several times a day. I am in the midwest, and used to own a convertible. The number of 'top down' kinds of days (that I reason are also good cycling days) is probably only a third of the year. Our weather is schizophrenic - it can change from warm and sunny to cold and rain or snow at the drop of a hat. Super hot summer and super cold winters. No one is biking during the extremes. I have a neighbor who is a cycling enthusiast, but only goes out for recreation, and he and his group only go on the many trails and parks we have, they rarely go on actual roads as distracted drivers are a menace.
Same near us. As one of our protesters said, “they don’t try to put bike lanes on I 95”… So why put them on major streets where there are traffic lights and pollution?? In Europe they try to put bike paths off the Main Streets. We don’t mind having indirect more bucolic and less trafficked paths!
We have a wonderful trail system in our area, including one that is a former rail line that cyclists and hikers alike have plenty of room. Love going there when the weather is decent. If you are a cycle enthusiast, MO has the KATY trail https://katytrailmo.com/ (another former rail line) that nearly criss crosses the entire state. Lots of nice stops along the route, wineries, B&B's, etc. Our local one has just a few mile gap before it links to the KATY trail but has not yet gotten funding (and would require cooperation between multiple jurisdictions) All the cyclists I know use the trails, not the roads. But then I don't know any of the 'activist' ones other than I see them at all the meetings. The leader is a doctor who loves to wax about the 'health benefits' but willing to bet he drives his car to his medical practice.
I support the ability to commute on a bicycle even if it’s just nice weather or April to November. During Covid our public transportation system basically stopped. So I tried to bicycle from one end of town to the other without getting into the traffic, and it was almost impossible to figure out all the little roads (no help from google.) I don’t want to be riding on a road with lots of traffic, who does? The whole premise is cockamamie.
I sure wouldn't want to bike on a busy road these days, what with people texting and driving, and guys who are intentionally killing cyclists either for fun or as a gang initiation rite. Not to mention people having "medical emergencies" at the wheel.
Not to mention getting to work all sweaty and dirty 😕 Unless there’s a way to shower and change, I’m not sure I’d be up for that. Especially with all the other issues mentioned.
My understanding from talking to someone more knowledgeable than I am is that developers want to get certain "green" certifications. Probably they are incentivized by government. But to get those certifications, there are are a certain number of points they have to get. They chose to get points through easy things like bike lanes rather than hard things that cost a lot. Bike lanes and other low hanging fruit are what they go for to get their certification, which the local governments just eat up. They say, "wow, your build will have this green certification? Well, you get the green light, then!"
Sounds about right. The same way all advertising nowadays shows only "diverse" models -- it's an easy way for corporations to score ESG points.
Oh, I didn't know that was tied in, too!! Makes me feel like we're all children in school made to participate in a points reward and demerits system.
2017 my apartment complex forced green energy on us. Put in led’s everywhere and lit up the parking lot. I had to get a note from my doctor to get my regular shower head back on from the useless energy efficient one. The bushes and trees started dying after they installed the new lighting but it could be the 5 g also or the chemtrail pollution killing the plants.
That’s awful. I have been hoarding incandescent 100 W lightbulbs for a while.
I dragged in lamps everywhere. Thankfully I since moved & unexpectedly happily married.
Research C40 Cities. Here’s a link for you.
https://www.c40.org/about-c40/
Wow. Thanks.
This is a very important comment. You have succinctly pointed out exactly what is happening. I hadn’t quite seen it this way yet and it is terrifying.
Thanks Tonya. I sure wish it wasn't so....
Very good. Maybe some climate change, gun control and war mixed in there.
Yes - you failed to give proper credit for this fundamental transformation to its author, Barack "The One" Obama.
Infiltrating the goverment with radicals
Communists gonna communist.
Haha love this too!!! Lol!!!!
Depressingly accurate.
Getting the sane countries of the world to hate us, and think we’re all like that stupid bastard.
Except he’s not really doing anything, he’s a hood ornament. This is all according to the Kalergi plan.
A hood ornament would be better.
Great list. I would add promoting the social contagion of gender dysmorphia in schools, and allowing the sterilization and mutilation of minors.
Thanks! Absolutely! I totally agree.
Just give credit to his ear piece please.
There was briefly a Twitter account for Obama's Teleprompter during Obama's presidency; is there a Biden's Earpiece account now? Should be!
Ha! Absolutely! Where would he be without it? Probably still stuck in his basement. 🤣
The entire administration and heads of most 3 letter agencies need to be brought up on charges of treason. When found guilty, the highest punishment needs to meted out immediately. Every single thing they do brings more destruction upon America.
Child trafficking,money laundering, drug trafficking,hair sniffing,sagging mask,stairs falling,wife swapping,and just all around creepy guy!