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What's everyone doing for Bike Month?
In article jkYWj.5676$GK4.49@trndny01,
Peter Cole writes: Tom Keats wrote: No-helmet fines should go toward putting a cyclists' push-button traffic light @ Prince Edward St & 41st Ave. Or a repeal fund. Gov't money-grabs are never repealed. Now, my fellow British Columbians are soon to be inflicted with a so-called "carbon tax" on our fossil fuel purchases: http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/n...98e0b7&k=38130 When we buy coal oil/kerosene and other non-burnt petrochemicals such as for painting from the hardware store, we already have to pay a recycling/disposal premium on those, and that's all right by me. But watch out -- we British Columbians are the guys who originally trend-setted MHLs. It's also not okay to smoke a cigarette near a building entrance or in a bistro patio, but it /is/ okay to drive a filthy diesel exhaust-spewing dump truck past it. Even if it exceeds the posted civic speed limit. Although those big wobbly clouds of diarrhea-brown diesel exhaust seem to come mostly from engine-braking (which truck drivers are politely asked not to do in the city.) Thus is the People's Republic of British Columbia. The situation is hopeless but not serious. cheers, Tom -- "Mendacity!" I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca |
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What's everyone doing for Bike Month?
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Zoot Katz writes: On Mon, 12 May 2008 00:53:30 -0700, (Tom Keats) wrote, in part: No-helmet fines should go toward putting a cyclists' push-button traffic light @ Prince Edward St & 41st Ave. And at 33rd. I had a brief moment of apprehensiveness today. It could've turned into a moment of apprehension. Riding lid-free along 45th west from Fraser. I had to haul over to let an ambulance & fire truck by. Then I came upon a collision scene, c/w cops, tow truck taking a bashed-in SUV away, and one of those bike police Brodies parked in the middle of the street; the behelmeted bike cop was attempting to direct car traffic (but the effect was more like herding cats.) I managed to wend my way through all the CarHead idiocy, my helmetlessness going unnoticed or disregarded -- this time. Whew! I was able to continue unscathed to the Chu Kiang Restaurant @ Knight & 49th for a couple of take-out orders ofCombination Dinner #2. I've been letting my hair grow out. Except before getting longer, it gets fatter and thicker. Maybe it sorta looks at first glance like a helmet, especially with the salt-&-pepper colourations of age. Why buy a helmet when you can grow your own? cheers, Tom -- Nothing is safe from me. I'm really at: tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca |
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