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
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

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

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...

He's a runner.

Gee, I wonder how many cyclist were parked in the travel lanes without being issued parking tickets. Seems extremely unfair to me.

From the book of cabby fairy tales.

See this similar thread on the Commuting Forum, "Boston Goes Bike Friendly and The Crowd's Roar":

https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...e-Crowd-s-Roar

and this happier thread about Boston cycling on the Fifty Plus Forum, "Boston Hubway":

https://www.bikeforums.net/showthread...-Boston-Hubway

The Herald, and their "bad boy in residence", Howie Carr, do this at least once per year: Stoke the drivers Vs. cyclists war. This is done for the usual reasons: It sells a few more copies of the paper, and pumps up Carr's Arbitron ratings. To his credit, Carr is actually quite funny when he gets going on local politicians, and their various "transgressions". (Stuffing bribe money into one's bra for example, and getting busted by hidden video cam while doing it.)

What's interesting is Mr. Berger's claim that he has spent a hundred grand on a legal team, a civil engineer, and.. a historian? And he says he is not a wealthy guy. And in a down economy too.
That's impressive.

To quote a line from a movie, "You can't stop what's coming."