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08-20-11, 01:23 PM
Yesterday and today, the Boston Herald started stoking the flames of a car vs. bike war of their own creation...:
Cyclists, drivers are wheeling and dealing (http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2011_0819cyclists_drivers_are_wheeling_and_dealing_wars_one_for_the_road/)
War’s one for the road
By Chris Cassidy and Natalie Sherman
Friday, August 19, 2011
There’s a war of wheels being waged on Boston’s streets — and ticketing data indicate the city has taken sides with the pedal-pushing two-wheelers, to the chagrin of carbon-belching car drivers and city councilors who say it just isn’t fair. ...
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Cyclists plan provocations in Hub’s car-bike war (http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1360124)
By Chris Cassidy
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Cyclists, fanning the flames of a roadway turf battle with car drivers, continue to organize monthly gatherings in downtown Boston to cruise — sometimes hundreds at a time — through congested intersections during evening rush-hour. ...
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Activist seeks to hit brakes on bike lanes (http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2011_0819activist_seeks_to_hit_brakes_on_bike_lanes/)
By Chris Cassidy
Friday, August 19, 2011
One irked Arlington octane enthusiast, tired of what he sees as insidious bike encroachment on his town’s blacktop, is putting his money where his motor is.
Eric Berger claims he has spent more than $100,000 on a legal team, a civil engineer and a historian to fight Arlington’s plan to take away drivers’ lanes on both sides of busy Massachusetts Avenue and designate them . . . bike-only.
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In the Friday paper, there was also an anti-bike editorial, which I can't find online. Apparently BH's Chris Cassidy has a hair across some anatomical excretory orifice regarding cyclists in Boston...
Cyclists, drivers are wheeling and dealing (http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2011_0819cyclists_drivers_are_wheeling_and_dealing_wars_one_for_the_road/)
War’s one for the road
By Chris Cassidy and Natalie Sherman
Friday, August 19, 2011
There’s a war of wheels being waged on Boston’s streets — and ticketing data indicate the city has taken sides with the pedal-pushing two-wheelers, to the chagrin of carbon-belching car drivers and city councilors who say it just isn’t fair. ...
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Cyclists plan provocations in Hub’s car-bike war (http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1360124)
By Chris Cassidy
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Cyclists, fanning the flames of a roadway turf battle with car drivers, continue to organize monthly gatherings in downtown Boston to cruise — sometimes hundreds at a time — through congested intersections during evening rush-hour. ...
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Activist seeks to hit brakes on bike lanes (http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2011_0819activist_seeks_to_hit_brakes_on_bike_lanes/)
By Chris Cassidy
Friday, August 19, 2011
One irked Arlington octane enthusiast, tired of what he sees as insidious bike encroachment on his town’s blacktop, is putting his money where his motor is.
Eric Berger claims he has spent more than $100,000 on a legal team, a civil engineer and a historian to fight Arlington’s plan to take away drivers’ lanes on both sides of busy Massachusetts Avenue and designate them . . . bike-only.
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In the Friday paper, there was also an anti-bike editorial, which I can't find online. Apparently BH's Chris Cassidy has a hair across some anatomical excretory orifice regarding cyclists in Boston...