"They Want You Out of Your Cars".
Kansas City planners have put the “trans” into transportation. Area makeover artists have been busily mutilating this once impressively livable city and transitioning it to something God never intended. This radical urban surgery has deformed many an American city, but none quite so thoughtlessly.
This push to eliminate cars is a nationwide problem.
ReplyDeleteMy former residence, Walla Walla, WA, has been installing bike lanes for years; at one point, the skinny jean crowd proposed converting an arterial, used by many businesses AND commuters, from two lanes and turn lane into two lanes and two bike lanes.
The general response was, "WTF are you idiots thinking!?!?!?" The plan was dropped, but bike lanes are everywhere.
Teton County, WY is another example. That's where Jackson Hole is, home to millionaires and billionaires. A former cowboy town turned into an urban nightmare by Kalifornians looking for a third summer home. And don't get me started on the trust babies!
Anywho, anyone who wanted to develop was required to include walking and bike paths. They're everywhere in the county. Indeed, the county spent $5 million putting a bridge across the Snake River, just to separate the bikers from the cars.
And the paths are all paved; local contractors picked up an asphalt paver for just that purpose. Why paved? Some of the bikers have $10,000 bikes -- carbon frames, etc. Can't have gravel popping up to damage something.
And come winter, those paths aren't cleared, they're groomed for cross country skiers.
I could rant on for a long time, but Kansas City actually sounds like they are trying to catch up to the rest of the world.
And I bet they all wear those absurd spandex shorts and helmets that look like cantaloupes.
DeleteHere where I live, there are no urban planners, or skinny jeans crowd, or misplaced Kalifornians. I feel deprived.
ReplyDeleteNo I don't. I feel grateful.
I’m lucky to live just outside a very small town and am unlikely ever to need visits to a city again, but I saw my share of this kind of thing going on in cities I lived in previously. I don’t think most people, even most urban dwellers, want to use public transportation which is likely to become a place to sleep for crazies who might take it into their minds to slash you to death.
ReplyDeleteI lived in Kansas City for 5 years, long ago when it had a Republican mayor. It was pleasant, affordable, slightly boring, a little provincial. It was a "branch office" town with second-rate arts, second-rate air connections, and first-rate sports. It's amazing what democrats can destroy.
ReplyDeleteSounds like my kinda place. And, yes, the destructive power of Democrats is a curse on our country.
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