I was amazed to see a clip from the View of Whoopi Goldberg complaining Deblaso has messed up the city with too many bike lanes. Apparently she’s all fine with eco stuff as along as it does not slow down her driver during her commute in. De Blasio had the perfect leftist answer for traffic grid lock. He said it was “safer”…Perfect!.
But, gosh mayor don’t all those idling care produce CO2 and just plain pollution?
Whoopi’s complaint, and it is a valid one that some of the bike lanes have been placed in useless paths… like I won’t take the one going up 8th Ave because it is a dangerous and congested road where cars do not respect the bike lanes… and that the paths do not go into the Upper East Side because the rich people there have been more successful at their NIMBY than other neighborhoods.
But… it still isn’t a liberal/conservative issue… it is a transportation issue.