RACIST BIKE LANES

[Guest Frail4Life]

I just phoned this Tony. Asked if he could Help me get to Work as the bike was damaged. He did not answer.

[GTRacing]

@ Loudmac. I am not so sure that no more will be built.

And the way I view things is like this - the NP was in power. Then they were not in power. Now the ANC is in power. One day they will not be in power.

Today I might be struck by lightning. But today I might not be struck by lightning.

The term "struck by lightning" is a collection of words put together for the purpose of projecting a horrendous experience. But it is an experience which may, or may not, be experienced.

The collection of the words "Bike Lanes are Racist" is put together for the purpose of projecting a historically horrendous experience.

 

The lanes are built. The haters will hate and the non haters will not hate.

 

In the meantime ride and be alive.

Got to love your work buddy... "historically horrendous experience" sounds epic.

[Mackie]

This what happens when daddy doesnt teach his children how to ride a bicycle

[Lucky Luke.]

This guy is an idiot. Obviously if all the whites ride their bikes there will be far fewer single driver vehicles on the road and the taxis will be free to play bumper cars across every lane.

[Tiny K]

It's on page three of the Cape Times. I've tried to find a link, but can't.

 

Maybe he retracted his statement already :clap: :clap: What a tjop!

[GTRacing]

This guy is an idiot. Obviously if all the whites ride their bikes there will be far fewer single driver vehicles on the road and the taxis will be free to play bumper cars across every lane.

You are waisting your time trying to reason on there behalves, the objective in there contraversial statement is to raley the seporters at the cost of the minorety. sorry about the spelling.

[Shebeen]

more in the times today, don't think it's available online so here's a summary.

response from the transport MEC Robin Carlisle in today's paper, basically slated all of ehrenreich's claims. The lanes form part of the city's overall integrated rapid transport scheme. The metrorail is actually a state concern, and he shoots back at the ruling party/alliance for doing almost nothing to maintain or improve this resource since 1994. At the same time the mayoral commitee transport liason pointed out that there were lanes in the cape flats areas.

 

few letters about it too.

*Andrew from BEN asked big Tony not to politicise the humble bicycle which is used by all sectors of the population for transport.

*a crash survivor explained how 20 years ago he was run over by a truck when cycling and how the lanes would help prevent this.

*some ehrenriech supporter wrote in that the mayoral response was patronising as the poor could afford bikes anyway

*a dr Khan dismissed it all as politicking in election year, but would prefer it if big Tony would at least do a bit of homework before mouthing off

*some dude referred to the comment of the lanes only benefitting the rich white larneys, when big tony himself used expensive private health care recently.

 

expect more tomorrow

[bontie]

Travel by bike is often faster than a properly functioning commuter rail service.

Take London - 16km to work takes me 50-60min by rail, by foot it takes me about 1:20 and have not tried bike, but surely that will be about 40min (along the river and through parks, most of the time). They hang out of the trains, because they don't know...

[EtienneB]

Poor cosatu. They obviously think bicycles are only available to the rich.

 

Maybe they hang out of the trains so they can feel what it is like on a bike...

[drugslinger]

that article will, unfortunately, promote and provoke "socio-economic" bike jackings along the route. There have been 1 or 2 incidents prior to said article, it will be interestingly unfortunate to hear or see more due the ARGUS article.

[Eugene Oppelt]

Most black commuters face tremendous challenges day-to-day.

With an consistently unreliable railway system and only the fast-moving taxis (in majority as I see it) at their disposal, the availability of cycle lanes is a real privilege and great benefit to a few.

There is nothing wrong or bad with privilege.

Only for South African cyclists to appreciate the privilege within the greater context of the SA public transport system.

[covie]

What a twat, what next.

 

 

He Probably has shares in spoornet while his other lackys steal the copper

[Caerus]

Most black commuters face tremendous challenges day-to-day.

With an consistently unreliable railway system and only the fast-moving taxis (in majority as I see it) at their disposal, the availability of cycle lanes is a real privilege and great benefit to a few.

There is nothing wrong or bad with privilege.

Only for South African cyclists to appreciate the privilege within the greater context of the SA public transport system.

 

 

In an ideal world we would all ride bikes, its a pity that the government fat cats dont live in the real world.

[vanniri]

Great opportunity for the cycling community to invite this guy (very publicly) to one of the bicycle donation activities (recall a number of them - Cape Epic also have one if not mistaken), ask him to be the official person at the hand-over.

 

Also send him a copy of the photo coffee table book currently underway by the two Cape Town guys or better ask him for a statement to include.

 

Ensure the invite is public and very high profile

[Johan Bornman]

more of this here;

http://groups.google.com/group/cosatu-press/msg/f71ee7e3532d218b

 

i like the way they use the word 'larney' and expect to get taken seriously.

i also like the way they complain about a 3 year project on the day it's launched, and want the money back somehow

I also like the way they include tony's number. i will send him a 'please call me'. surely a man in his position would reply to those of us who have a lot to say, but can't afford to pay for phonecalls?

 

ps. anyone know how you send a 'please call me' on vodacom network?

 

 

I like your suggestion. How does one sent a PCM?

[Lucky Luke.]

I wonder if Tony has a clue about the key role the bicycle has played in the left wing history books, solving exactly the problems which he is bemoaning.

 

Is Tony a bit thick? politically myopic? both? or just desperate to score cheap points with the electorate?

 

After 1949, when the People's Republic of China was founded, the bicycle soon found a strong advocate in the communist government. Whether problems in the building of a public transport system, adequate to the needs of a "socialist" society, were the practical arguments for the endorsement of bicycle traffic, or whether there were ideological reasons, may be left to further research.

 

...the bicycle received strong support by the Chinese government ... was given preferential allowances of rationed materials. The nascent bicycle industry thus was able to accomplish growth rates of 58.7% annually -ambitiously charted out in the first Chinese Five-Year-Plan.

 

The level of one million bicycles was reached in 1958. Bicycle lanes became part of urban street planning and commuting workers received financial subsidies when purchasing a bicycle. To conclude the development, up to the founding of the Peoples' Republic of China in 1949, we can define three stages:

1) There are four decades (from 1870 to 1910), when the bicycle as a technological object was known and reported on by the press in China, at least in the larger cites, but hardly any Chinese were using it.

2) For the following three decades, bicycle traffic increased, but stayed on a comparatively low level. Cycling was limited to the coastal commercial centres with a strong foreign influence.

3) Only with the establishment of a domestic bicycle industry in 1930 and succeeding price cuts, the use of bicycles slowly increased and became widely disseminated geographically.

The spread of the bicycle as a common means of transportation was further fostered, after the foundation of the People's Republic of China, by subsidies to the cycle industry and to cycle users.

 

http://www.imperialtours.net/images/inside_china/history/bicycle/bicycle_img_04.jpgToday's ubiquity of the bicycle in China has led to the widespread assumption of a cultural inclination of Chinese to bicycling. A deeper investigation into pre-1949 cycle history unveils quite a different image: it seems that economic and modern infrastructural reasons, rather than cultural preconditions, can explain China's development into the bicycle nation of the 20th century.

 

 

 

http://www.imperialt...net/bicycle.htm

Edited February 7, 2011 by Luke.