Video: Does Mother Nature Hate Bike Lanes, Breasts?

This post is a little lacking in news-ness but always nice to see sad, angry people pulled out of the woodwork by the simple mention of "bike lane".

They should leave a ghost bike lane there and be done with it.

OH GOD!!!!!!!

enough with this already. they have had their lame, undeserved 15 seconds of fame. let them go wallow in their stupid clubhouse stashing away the pathetic donations they likely have been receiving from clueless idiots who think time's up actually accomplishes something.

get a job.

Were you working on the weekends? Why do you presume they don't work? Because they use their spare time for activism instead of sitting on the coach complaining?

The bike lanes are used by such an overwhelming minority. They snarl traffic and no one is really using them (see new Allen Street joke of a bike lane). Time to start charging these self righteous fools to register their bikes. Make them get bike licenses, take riding course, ticket them for going the wrong way and not wearing helmets. They want to share the road, then they can share the burden.

Only those 12 years and younger are required to wear helmets, so no laws are being broken there. I fully endorse wearing a helmet at all times, but it's not a law...

As far as the rest of your infrastructure implementation goes - BRING IT ON. I'll gladly register my bikes, take a course, and accept a ticket for my wrong-doings (which I already have). However, I doubt your average taxpayer will go for it as they'll have to foot the bill for most of this. Also, since cops barely give tickets out for reckless driving or excessive speed by motorist I can't imagine they'd be moved to go about ticketing cyclist...

And who pays for painting these bike lanes? Should we abolish automobile registrations? Driving a bike w/o a helmet should be a law. If it's a law for motorcycles than why not bicycles? It'll generate revenue once it's in place. And if I consistently drove the wrong way on my bike blowing through stop signs and red lights like 95% of the bikers in Williamsburg, Greenpoint and the LES where I do a lot of my driving, I'm sure I'd be out of a license. I really don't want to hit one of these fools because of their stupidity one day and have their death on my conscious for the rest of my life. If we can have seat belt, cell phone, motorcycle helmet, no smoking laws, etc. shouldn't we also have bike helmet laws?

"Williamsburg, Greenpoint and the LES where I do a lot of my driving."

Go whine somewhere else you rich asshole.

Wouldn't it be nice if there was free parking just for me! and all the lights were timed just for me! and I never had to pay tolls! And if no one else could have fun except for me!

wah wah, look at all those bikers, just passing me, while I have to wait in traffic, behind some box truck, in chinatown.

Unless you're in a band, and you need to drive and move around your equipment, you sound like one of those spoiled transplants, who needs mommy to pay the rent.

I say this, because, if you actually drive primarily around Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and the LES, then you really should be on a bike, and the only people, for whom, driving primarily around Greenpoint, Williamsburg, and the LES, is cost-effective, are rich assholes and/or help from mommy and daddy people.

I say this, from personal experience, because it was too expensive to keep a car while livingin those areas.

And yah, these bike protesters tactics are retarded, and it won't get their lane back, and they're stupid, and I hate that they represent "bikers" the way Sharpton is perceived to represent all blacks.

Nevertheless, if I met you in a bar, I'd punch you in the gut, for being a whiny little bitch.

"Unless you're in a band, and you need to drive and move around your equipment, you sound like one of those spoiled transplants, who needs mommy to pay the rent."

Oh and the fact that you think that being in a band would be the only reason you would need to drive shows what a stupid, young/naive, stupid, fucking asshole you are. What if you delivered equipment for Marshall or fender? What if you delivered bikes? What if you delivered beer and booze to your stupid, transplant bar? What if you belivered bikes and bike parts? What if you had no legs like you probably won't after someone beats the shit out of you or your liver is pickled and they amputate them?

My sentiments exactly.

These cocksuckers have ruined entire swaths of Brooklyn but they haven't the balls to say to a native's face what they would say anonymously on the internet.

Perhaps you should speak their language to get the message into their self-centered, knit-cap-covered skulls.

Here are tips on How to Speak to a Hipster:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7HMpphdNaw

heh, i biked my ass home during the snowfall and it was slow-going. some hasidic asshole pulled his minivan over next to me and yelled out his window "now god took away your bike lane!"

who gives a fuck about natives? get over yourself.

"who gives a fuck about natives? get over yourself."

You're actually absolutely right. Unless someone is part Native American they really have to gripe. Even then you really don't, as many tribes (my great, great great, great grandfathers included) were fighting with other tribes over territories. So, we should all give it a rest and be grateful that NYC is not Detroit.

Bait Taken.

The real culprits are the guys who stopped (a) Congestion Pricing; and/or (b) east river tolls.

Who in their right mind drives into the city during the work day? If you're a business, (i.e. HVAC office based in Queens) you can pass that $8 fee onto to the customer, who's actually demanding your service. If you're a private car, just driving to work, well, sorry, driving into the CBD during business hours is a luxury, and you aught to bear the costs (you already pay $200+/month to park, what's another $8/day). And if you can't afford to continue driving into the city, well, ding ding, that's why it's called congestion pricing, and the funds were supposed to be used eliminate congestion AND raise money for improved Mass Transit services, or, in this case, just maintaining existing Services. If anything, these MTA service cuts, might make Congestion even worse in the City.

And maybe, just maybe, if (a) and/or (b) were to have passed, then maybe nightenrock won't be so angry, because he'd have less congestion, when he's delivering equipment all over town.

I used to live in London before I became a life-long New Yorker, and man, you could see the difference pre- and post-congestion pricing.

I'd compare it to the difference between pre and post-smoking ban in restaurants and bars.

Beforehand, everyone goes bat shit, even non-smokers, about the Paternalism and the change and forgets about what they're supposedly giving up. Then afterwards, everyone sort of just appreciates the, man, it is nicer without all the smoke; man, it is nicer with less cars and traffic on our streets.

But really, driving in Manhattan is for the rich, which is why I have no sympathy for those burdened by, whatever it is all the drivers in Manhattan feel burdened by.

NattyB, bring it on, pussy. Um, first off, I'm not rich...It's not THAT expensive to have a car in any of those areas. You know, if you weren't a transplant yourself, bitch, you'd realize that real New Yorkers might need a car to go visit family and friends in the greater metropolitan area. And when you get older, if you're lucky enough to and you're not destroying your liver in the bar, you might not be able to bike and you might be so ill from the liver and kidney damage and injuries from getting your ass kicked in bars that you can't walk let alone ride a bike and then you might need a car. And trust me, it costs more to drink in those neighborhoods in their trendy rich asshole, transplant bars than it does to drive a car. So, just tell me where and when and bring your best you fucking little pussy.

As soon as Heather Long (I think that's her name), the original organizer of this event, made that comment along the lines of "if the Hasids don't like it they can go live Upstate" this issue lost *all* credibility. It served as further proof of a disgusting double-standard of antisemitism that is apparently acceptable by some people who really aught to know better (most likely due to the issue of what they perceive as Israeli-military aggression, the issue of the territories, etc). Can you imagine this happening in a predominantly, let's say Jamaican area, and the residents being told that if they didn't like it they could go back to whence they came? How about African Americans being told to go back to Africa? Really disgusting.

For the record, I am currently a Time's Up member. But after this whole fiasco I'm done with that.

Go live upstate != go back upstate.

Sorry, but you're wrong. There's much more in there then what's on the surface. About as bad as blackface.

The Hasidim of Williamsburg originated in upstate New York? I learn so much here on Gothamist.

hey man - it's what she said. since she obviously knows jack about history, she'd likely have told them to go back to europe - after not taking WWII into account...

yes.. lets hate on people trying to change the city for the better.

also, fakefelix.. who says people protesting on a saturday dont have jobs? i dont work weekends.. are you a waiter or something?

Who can say that adding bike lanes positively effect the city as a whole?

"Does Mother Nature Hate Bike Lanes, Breasts?"

Mother nature may not like Bike Lanes, but I am positive that she still enjoys breasts. What's better than a pair of bare Breasts?

WET BARE BREASTS

I rest my case.

I feel sorry for the cop even though he was probably getting paid overtime to do what he normally doesn't do. That being work. If these bicyclists only drove cars with heaters and roofs disguised as bikes maybe they could bring off one of these protests on time.

Obviously NYC does not have a year around climate for bikers. So knock it off and come back after Easter.

Or better yet, do the ride on Easter morning. That should be a good reminder for your Hassidic friends.

the stupidity of these people is astounding.

"I want to see some boobs!" shouted one disappointed cop.

You and me both bub. The bearing of (large) breasts is an essential element in any protest.

Yep. Hipster breasts are certainly superior to any other 'creative class' breasts.

Just what I thought it would be; a bunch of hipsters doing a bunch of bullshit no one cares about. Now they get to play the "no bike-lanes kill" line since that British girl got sideswiped by a truck while presumably not wearing a helmet. Well, good luck to you, but no, I doubt the people of brooklyn or the city at large will support you or your bike lanes. Most people hate them, especially those of us with vehicles. You like 2 wheels and being "green"? Buy a motorcycle or a scooter, at least you won't slow down traffic

fucking morons. the Creative Class in New York needs to get a job.

Hipsters are not the creative class.