Mark Steyn;These bike lanes are great, aren’t they? Makes it so much easier to get a nice clear run at these cyclists.
22 Replies to “Spirits of the Age”
Interesting that foreign newspapers are becoming some of the best sources of local information, as most of them would never print stories that do go with the national/global narrative, but feel free to so if it happens somewhere else in the world.
“I was just reporting on them, not us ….”
It was 2009 when Liberal AG Michael Bryant had to cross over into oncoming traffic and mount the curb to kill his bicyclist.
Scott free!
IIRC, he was allowed to go home sleep, etc., before being “interviewed” by the cops.
A complete sham and possible murder.
Dirty bastige.
Well he had to sleep off his BAC…
When is reality going to be recognized? Bikes (bicycles), and bikers, are not road vehicles. They are wheeled pedestrians, the same as a wheelchair or a stroller, but simply used by a more able-bodied person. It doesn’t take a physicist to recognize the mass and momentum differences between a car and a bike, nor who is going to have the worse outcome from a collision between them. Pedestrians are less safe in the street, and so are bicyclists, significantly so. That’s why we have sidewalks. To deliberately put bikes in the road, simply because of some arbitrary decision that “they have the right to be there” is ridiculous. To act outraged when a biker is destroyed by two tons of steel traveling at speed is just as ridiculous. Rather than dedicating significant parts of the road to part time users (i.e., bikes, which in many parts of the world these bike lanes don’t even get used much of the year because of winter), make the sidewalks wider to better accommodate wheeled pedestrians (i.e., bikers). If you continue to ignore reality, reality will continue to ignore your philosophy. If bikers need their own road, then give them their own separate road, but to expect them to move harmoniously with motor vehicle traffic is just fantasy.
Finally someone with a grasp on reality. Care to run for public office?
They purposely ran that poor sorry bastard down with their car in Las Vegas. They planned to aim the car at him.
I get you hate bikes, bike lanes, and bikers, but they purposefully drove up behind him at speed and ran directly into his rear wheel, launching the biker into the air and bouncing his body off the STOLEN Car. It is on the freaking video and those two feral animals were laughing about it!
Would you also forgive those two maniacs for running over a pedestrian crossing the street in a crosswalk with the light? Maybe you think they should get extra points if it’s a baby in a stroller or an old woman with a walker?
I knew someone here would come out on the side of the feral murderers,
If you can’t handle dealing with cyclists on the road, you shouldn’t be licensed to drive.
Generally road-ragers get out of the car and -beat- the cyclist, they don’t run them down in cold blood. That’s not a thing that used to happen.
But it does now, baby.
Uh, cyclists take their chances with traffic (as do we all) but I think you’re missing the point that this cyclist was murdered.
I’ve lived in Toronto for 60 years. I used to ride my bike from Don Mills to Upper Canada College – about 15k – with my football gear on my back. You ever tried to ride a bike up the hill at Don Mills and York Mills road with 20 lbs of pads and helmet?
I’m used to ‘not being seen’ by motorists who don’t bother to look. I’ve been hit on a number of occasions, but if you keep your head up, you avoid the worst of them. On my bicycle, I’ve never had more than a scratch from any injury; on my motorcycle, I got crippled.
I don’t deny some cyclists are reckless, blowing through stop signs and red lights at high speed, cutting in and out through traffic, and etc. They are self-limiting, though, as that type of thinking gets you into accidents or killed. Most cyclists just want to get to where they are going, just like motorists.
I don’t understand the anger and vilification against *ANY* sort of transportation efficiency here. Bikes, public transit, EV’s – they all have something to offer, so long as we accept they are not the “ultimate” solution. What the hell did all you people do before we had cars?
As a much younger man, I used a bike as my main method of transportation. I’m thankful I survived those years. Yes, cyclists have every right to be on the road but it’s inherently less safe. You pays your money and you take your chances.
We are FORCED to accept bikes and bikers on our roads and make way for them and their shitty attitudes on display regularly. You see many of them are “Saving the Planet” and are thus better citizens than the lowly car driver (that incidentally paid for the roads and infrastructure below the pavement.)
That’s no reason to aim for the bikers but it would be nice if they were more accepting of the motorists.
Don’t worry, the city will soon change don and york mills so they are 1 lane in either direction with very wide separated bike lanes that no one will use, in the same way they destroyed bloor street our to islington.
Miller’s war on the car never stopped
A jury in Ohio couldn’t find 3 black kids who beat a white kid to death guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
Lawlessness is our crisis today. I’ll take Scott Adams advice. Mark is right to call the press comrades. Good thing they decided 30 years ago not to identify the race of criminal suspects because it has certainly improved our society. Pretty sure half the population wouldn’t believe their own eyes if they saw what the real crime statistics would show.
As for bike lanes, I imagine those in city hall who supported them envisioned thousands of cyclists merrily pedaling to work and play every day. Apparently, not the case. I rarely see more than the odd bike in the dedicated lane. Taxpayers get grumpy. Fortunately, very few are as deranged as these vicious teens.
I think it should be a provincial law that any municipal politician so much as suggesting a bike lane be required under pain of imprisonment to bicycle to work every day from October to May.
My city has just installed brand new, very expensive bike lanes on a road that has seen maybe a dozen cyclists in the twelve years I’ve been living here. Worse, they’ve redesigned the intersections to do it such that it’s now more dangerous for cars to turn there because they’ve cut into the available turning space.
I rode a bicycle to work for many years and still ride for pleasure but I do deplore the obsession with creating these stupid bike lanes. We live in a northern country with sometimes harsh winters which only the hardcore bicyclist will brave. The wet dreams of the woke/delusional that most will give up their automobiles for pedal power is absurd. Meanwhile, the shoehorning in of bike lanes in existing roadways is disruptive of automobile traffic ans not always safer for the cyclist. But then, disruption/mischief is the unsaid goal of many of the “do-gooders” perpetrating this nonsense.
Bike lanes give cyclists a false sense of security.
Liberal Wedge Politics plus dishonest Canadian Media makes a Get Whitey future quite probable.
White folks’ inherent guilty conscience and weird suicidal tendencies, to say nothing of white children insidiously programmed from birth, all points to an “interesting” future.
White women en masse voting for Liberals who are doing their utmost to ensure said voters have a second class citizenship future accompanied by bag wearing and crime.
Lots and lots of unpunished, justice definitely not blind crime. (see Europe you maroons)
The Canadian Government, Canadian Education System and Canadian Media deserve kudos for their fantastic work in dumbing down and lying to Canadians so much that they vote for their own demise.
Just what are those gender vote numbers?
Just another state secret in murky, no checks and balances, co-opted Media Canada.
Canada.
Country of liars, lies and ladies lapping it up.
16 yrs and up, bike license to be paid and readily available to show… Don’t make it expensive, just make the by-laws. Make the penalty for not abiding very, very expensive.
Interesting that foreign newspapers are becoming some of the best sources of local information, as most of them would never print stories that do go with the national/global narrative, but feel free to so if it happens somewhere else in the world.
“I was just reporting on them, not us ….”
It was 2009 when Liberal AG Michael Bryant had to cross over into oncoming traffic and mount the curb to kill his bicyclist.
Scott free!
IIRC, he was allowed to go home sleep, etc., before being “interviewed” by the cops.
A complete sham and possible murder.
Dirty bastige.
Well he had to sleep off his BAC…
When is reality going to be recognized? Bikes (bicycles), and bikers, are not road vehicles. They are wheeled pedestrians, the same as a wheelchair or a stroller, but simply used by a more able-bodied person. It doesn’t take a physicist to recognize the mass and momentum differences between a car and a bike, nor who is going to have the worse outcome from a collision between them. Pedestrians are less safe in the street, and so are bicyclists, significantly so. That’s why we have sidewalks. To deliberately put bikes in the road, simply because of some arbitrary decision that “they have the right to be there” is ridiculous. To act outraged when a biker is destroyed by two tons of steel traveling at speed is just as ridiculous. Rather than dedicating significant parts of the road to part time users (i.e., bikes, which in many parts of the world these bike lanes don’t even get used much of the year because of winter), make the sidewalks wider to better accommodate wheeled pedestrians (i.e., bikers). If you continue to ignore reality, reality will continue to ignore your philosophy. If bikers need their own road, then give them their own separate road, but to expect them to move harmoniously with motor vehicle traffic is just fantasy.
Finally someone with a grasp on reality. Care to run for public office?
They purposely ran that poor sorry bastard down with their car in Las Vegas. They planned to aim the car at him.
I get you hate bikes, bike lanes, and bikers, but they purposefully drove up behind him at speed and ran directly into his rear wheel, launching the biker into the air and bouncing his body off the STOLEN Car. It is on the freaking video and those two feral animals were laughing about it!
Would you also forgive those two maniacs for running over a pedestrian crossing the street in a crosswalk with the light? Maybe you think they should get extra points if it’s a baby in a stroller or an old woman with a walker?
I knew someone here would come out on the side of the feral murderers,
If you can’t handle dealing with cyclists on the road, you shouldn’t be licensed to drive.
Generally road-ragers get out of the car and -beat- the cyclist, they don’t run them down in cold blood. That’s not a thing that used to happen.
But it does now, baby.
Uh, cyclists take their chances with traffic (as do we all) but I think you’re missing the point that this cyclist was murdered.
I’ve lived in Toronto for 60 years. I used to ride my bike from Don Mills to Upper Canada College – about 15k – with my football gear on my back. You ever tried to ride a bike up the hill at Don Mills and York Mills road with 20 lbs of pads and helmet?
I’m used to ‘not being seen’ by motorists who don’t bother to look. I’ve been hit on a number of occasions, but if you keep your head up, you avoid the worst of them. On my bicycle, I’ve never had more than a scratch from any injury; on my motorcycle, I got crippled.
I don’t deny some cyclists are reckless, blowing through stop signs and red lights at high speed, cutting in and out through traffic, and etc. They are self-limiting, though, as that type of thinking gets you into accidents or killed. Most cyclists just want to get to where they are going, just like motorists.
I don’t understand the anger and vilification against *ANY* sort of transportation efficiency here. Bikes, public transit, EV’s – they all have something to offer, so long as we accept they are not the “ultimate” solution. What the hell did all you people do before we had cars?
As a much younger man, I used a bike as my main method of transportation. I’m thankful I survived those years. Yes, cyclists have every right to be on the road but it’s inherently less safe. You pays your money and you take your chances.
We are FORCED to accept bikes and bikers on our roads and make way for them and their shitty attitudes on display regularly. You see many of them are “Saving the Planet” and are thus better citizens than the lowly car driver (that incidentally paid for the roads and infrastructure below the pavement.)
That’s no reason to aim for the bikers but it would be nice if they were more accepting of the motorists.
Don’t worry, the city will soon change don and york mills so they are 1 lane in either direction with very wide separated bike lanes that no one will use, in the same way they destroyed bloor street our to islington.
Miller’s war on the car never stopped
A jury in Ohio couldn’t find 3 black kids who beat a white kid to death guilty of involuntary manslaughter.
Lawlessness is our crisis today. I’ll take Scott Adams advice. Mark is right to call the press comrades. Good thing they decided 30 years ago not to identify the race of criminal suspects because it has certainly improved our society. Pretty sure half the population wouldn’t believe their own eyes if they saw what the real crime statistics would show.
As for bike lanes, I imagine those in city hall who supported them envisioned thousands of cyclists merrily pedaling to work and play every day. Apparently, not the case. I rarely see more than the odd bike in the dedicated lane. Taxpayers get grumpy. Fortunately, very few are as deranged as these vicious teens.
I think it should be a provincial law that any municipal politician so much as suggesting a bike lane be required under pain of imprisonment to bicycle to work every day from October to May.
My city has just installed brand new, very expensive bike lanes on a road that has seen maybe a dozen cyclists in the twelve years I’ve been living here. Worse, they’ve redesigned the intersections to do it such that it’s now more dangerous for cars to turn there because they’ve cut into the available turning space.
I rode a bicycle to work for many years and still ride for pleasure but I do deplore the obsession with creating these stupid bike lanes. We live in a northern country with sometimes harsh winters which only the hardcore bicyclist will brave. The wet dreams of the woke/delusional that most will give up their automobiles for pedal power is absurd. Meanwhile, the shoehorning in of bike lanes in existing roadways is disruptive of automobile traffic ans not always safer for the cyclist. But then, disruption/mischief is the unsaid goal of many of the “do-gooders” perpetrating this nonsense.
Bike lanes give cyclists a false sense of security.
Liberal Wedge Politics plus dishonest Canadian Media makes a Get Whitey future quite probable.
White folks’ inherent guilty conscience and weird suicidal tendencies, to say nothing of white children insidiously programmed from birth, all points to an “interesting” future.
White women en masse voting for Liberals who are doing their utmost to ensure said voters have a second class citizenship future accompanied by bag wearing and crime.
Lots and lots of unpunished, justice definitely not blind crime. (see Europe you maroons)
The Canadian Government, Canadian Education System and Canadian Media deserve kudos for their fantastic work in dumbing down and lying to Canadians so much that they vote for their own demise.
Just what are those gender vote numbers?
Just another state secret in murky, no checks and balances, co-opted Media Canada.
Canada.
Country of liars, lies and ladies lapping it up.
16 yrs and up, bike license to be paid and readily available to show… Don’t make it expensive, just make the by-laws. Make the penalty for not abiding very, very expensive.
No doubt one of Trudeau’s wet dreams.