Take heed, automobile enthusiasts! Car drivers in other parts of the country are being crushed beneath the bootheels of bicyclists in a terrifying War on Cars, too. In a piece headlined “Bicyclist bullies try to rule the road in D.C.,” Washington Post columnist Courtland Milloy delineated the lengths to which those bicycle bullies will go to oppress the noble few who choose automobile transportation:
They fight to have bike lanes routed throughout the city, some in front of churches where elderly parishioners used to park their cars. They slow-pedal those three-wheel rickshaws through downtown during rush hour, laughing at motorists who want them to get out of the way.
Not the elderly! Dear God, is there any way for vulnerable car owners to strike back against these two-wheeled overlords?
It’s a $500 fine for a motorist to hit a bicyclist in the District, but some behaviors are so egregious that some drivers might think it’s worth paying the fine.
Yes! Wait, no. Don’t do that! Is…is that supposed to be satire?
This column is more about the gentrification of DC than it is about bicyclists. The elderly parishioners are African-Americans who have lived in DC their whole lives and are now being priced out/forced out by new arrivals wanting bike lanes, dog parks, etc.
I’m not saying gentrification is good or bad–it’s a fact of life. But the DC-centric issues this column addresses (and the gentrification in DC is massive, much more so than here) might be lost on a bicycling columnist from a Portland alternative weekly.
Portland Mercury Comenter Calls Paul Constant “Shitty-Writer,” Makes Joke About Hitting Them with Sock Full of Quarters
Old news, this was circulating on BSNYC a couple of weeks ago..
The column was written two weeks ago, and the subsequent backlash was published from coast to coast. This is poor re-posting even by Paul Constant’s standards.
Is…is that supposed to be an ARTICLE?
So much disappoint.
^One thing is constant with Paul: …dissappoint.