October 05, 2005
Blocking Boxes and Crosswalkezz
A big fuck you to all the drivers in this city who think running reds, using bus lanes, cutting over bikes paths, blocking boxes, and taking up our crosswalks is all Part & Parcel of the NYC traffic game. Cause it ain't, and best prepare yourself for the Pedestrian revolt. You've set the record this year for hit & runs, wooed our Mayor into giving you turn lanes and thru streets, run roughshod over unenforced speed limits, and ruthlessly polluted our city, using your horn even an anticipation of a green light. You just wait. Your day will come, fucking steel boxed twits. You've generally made this city a fucking frogger game, transforming the bipedal amongst us into a wrathful, misanthropic bunch. A resounding Fuck Off! Its a privelage to drive here, not your consecrated birthright. While I'm at it, Eh Bloomberg, you think you could use your traffic enforcement division for something more than accruing revenue from parking tickets? Its about more than your goddamned budget.
Posted by jmarston at October 5, 2005 12:36 PM
Comments
I absolutely agree.
What can be done?
Posted by: Mike at October 6, 2005 02:55 PM
Hell. Yeah.
One thing to do is join Transportation Alternatives: http://transalt.org
Posted by: z at October 6, 2005 03:41 PM
Done that. But buying a magazine is not very active. I've not seen much in neighborhood organizing in NYC.
Posted by: Mike at October 7, 2005 12:41 AM
Hey, easy. I hate what cars do like the next manhattanite but recently in berkeley I learned what a transportation police state is like, and it starts with ticketing "jaywalkers". Let's not go there.
Posted by: ja at October 7, 2005 01:42 AM
So that means we must put up with metal machines making left hand turns into pedestrians with children with the right of way. Somebody must police it.
Posted by: Mike at October 7, 2005 10:17 AM
HELL YES. These motorheads will have their day... It is coming soon. Fuggers.
Posted by: aaa at October 11, 2005 11:59 PM