BIKE: more No Justice

[Michael Bluejay]

On Monday, December 1, 2003, at 01:19  PM, Aaron Pollack wrote:

> And can we please pass a city ordinance prohibiting cars from parking 
> in the bike lanes?  Has anyone tried to get this before?

Oh, that's rich.  Here's a better page than the one Joel posted:

	http://BicycleAustin.info/bikelanes.html


Mike Dahmus done said:

> Out of curiousity - why did it make any difference when the trial 
> happened? Don't you think you would have gotten the same publicity 
> either way? A week's not that long in judicial time; and the local 
> suburban-centric media would have jumped all over the case of the 
> (probably communist) lunatic blocking hard-working 'merkins from their 
> god-given right to drive home as quickly as possible.

Well, that's a good point.  Probably the reason is that I knew the 
second I heard a negative verdict I'd be all fired up to go do it, 
while finding out when the verdict was already old news was kind of 
anti-climactic.  I'll keep this in mind for next time, though.  But I'm 
not sure that I'd be willing to go through with this particular plan 
again.  At the time I planned it I was kind of suicidal anyway so I 
didn't have any fear that some idiot in an SUV could angrily (or 
incompetently) drive right into the mess of bicycles.  These days it 
might be a little different....

Then again, if I got killed while protesting a cyclist being killed -- 
man, THAT would be irony, huh?  Where would it end?

-MBJ-