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Seattle bike lanes getting national coverage...

Swaye
Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,739 Founders Club
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...for how insane, overpriced, and mismanaged the effort has been. Good job Seattle. You've ruined yourself. Morons.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/23/seattle-struggling-to-pay-for-bike-lanes-as-costs-for-visionary-project-balloon-to-12-million-per-mile-report.html

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  • pawz
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,480 Founders Club
    Swaye said:

    ...for how insane, overpriced, and mismanaged the effort has been. Good job Seattle. You've ruined yourself. Morons.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/23/seattle-struggling-to-pay-for-bike-lanes-as-costs-for-visionary-project-balloon-to-12-million-per-mile-report.html

    But head tax is great idea!!1! Homeless lives matter!!!1!1!!
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  • topdawgnc
    topdawgnc Member Posts: 7,839
    There's a reason utopia doesn't exist.
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  • 2001400ex
    2001400ex Member Posts: 29,457
    pawz said:

    Swaye said:

    ...for how insane, overpriced, and mismanaged the effort has been. Good job Seattle. You've ruined yourself. Morons.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/05/23/seattle-struggling-to-pay-for-bike-lanes-as-costs-for-visionary-project-balloon-to-12-million-per-mile-report.html

    But head tax is great idea!!1! Homeless lives matter!!!1!1!!
    Head tax definitely hurts boobs.
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  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,560
    And we make fun of Eugene...
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  • Southerndawg
    Southerndawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,347 Founders Club
    Sledog said:

    A large truck with a snow plow would be the perfect vehicle for traveling the bike lanes.

    This looks like nearly as much fun


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  • TurdBomber
    TurdBomber Member Posts: 20,045 Standard Supporter
    I really, really expected this thread to be about taint-licking.

    Failing that, I hoped it would be a story about a drunk, high Native American we all know and love chopping bicyclists into bits with a tomahawk.
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  • Sledog
    Sledog Member Posts: 37,875 Standard Supporter
    edited May 2018
    I hear @Swaye ate a leather bike seat once.
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  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,560
    Southerndawg said:

    greenblood said:

    And we make fun of Eugene...

    Seattle has gone off the rails. Completely. Easy target deserving a national mockery.

    Making of fun of Eugene is a bit more focused.



    Totally agree
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  • Kaepsknee
    Kaepsknee Member Posts: 14,913
    Even my podunk little Burg is trying to ruin the literally 4 x 4 square block downtown that’s there by having a bike lane in one of the through routes. It’s been there for 2 years and there’s little impact as I’ve never seen ONE FUCKING BIKE ever. But it did take a lane of traffic away. And it fucks half the population up as they haven’t realized that they can just get in that lane and park normally. As opposed to locking it up In front of you and pulling into the pits like a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series machine.

    @creepycoug is right. People in Salem are fucking stupid and I have to add that their aspirations are to achieve Portland stupid.
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  • UWhuskytskeet
    UWhuskytskeet Member Posts: 7,113
    In other words, someone at Fox found the most expensive project in the city - something that ran for FOUR BLOCKS - then calculated that if every project cost this much per city block then the total cost per mile would be that insane number. It's bullshit because there isn't a single mile of bike lane anywhere in Seattle that cost even close to $12 million to build. Nevermind the fact that it's the entire street being rebuilt, not just a bike path.

    I'm sure Fox accidentally left out those details.


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  • UWhuskytskeet
    UWhuskytskeet Member Posts: 7,113
    greenblood said:

    UWhuskytskeet said:

    In other words, someone at Fox found the most expensive project in the city - something that ran for FOUR BLOCKS - then calculated that if every project cost this much per city block then the total cost per mile would be that insane number. It's bullshit because there isn't a single mile of bike lane anywhere in Seattle that cost even close to $12 million to build. Nevermind the fact that it's the entire street being rebuilt, not just a bike path.

    I'm sure Fox accidentally left out those details.


    $374k for streetlights?
    So maybe it isn't about bike lanes after all?
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  • UWhuskytskeet
    UWhuskytskeet Member Posts: 7,113
    greenblood said:

    UWhuskytskeet said:

    In other words, someone at Fox found the most expensive project in the city - something that ran for FOUR BLOCKS - then calculated that if every project cost this much per city block then the total cost per mile would be that insane number. It's bullshit because there isn't a single mile of bike lane anywhere in Seattle that cost even close to $12 million to build. Nevermind the fact that it's the entire street being rebuilt, not just a bike path.

    I'm sure Fox accidentally left out those details.


    $374k for streetlights?
    46 lights over 4.5 blocks = 10 a block. $8,000 a light = $368,000
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  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,560
    UWhuskytskeet said:

    greenblood said:

    UWhuskytskeet said:

    In other words, someone at Fox found the most expensive project in the city - something that ran for FOUR BLOCKS - then calculated that if every project cost this much per city block then the total cost per mile would be that insane number. It's bullshit because there isn't a single mile of bike lane anywhere in Seattle that cost even close to $12 million to build. Nevermind the fact that it's the entire street being rebuilt, not just a bike path.

    I'm sure Fox accidentally left out those details.


    $374k for streetlights?
    46 lights over 4.5 blocks = 10 a block. $8,000 a light = $368,000
    It said "new" street lights. Couldn't they just move the old ones?

    Street lights usually don't deteriorate. It's fabricated metal with wires running inside connected to a bulb.
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  • TurdBomber
    TurdBomber Member Posts: 20,045 Standard Supporter
    Swaye said:

    greenblood said:

    UWhuskytskeet said:

    greenblood said:

    UWhuskytskeet said:

    In other words, someone at Fox found the most expensive project in the city - something that ran for FOUR BLOCKS - then calculated that if every project cost this much per city block then the total cost per mile would be that insane number. It's bullshit because there isn't a single mile of bike lane anywhere in Seattle that cost even close to $12 million to build. Nevermind the fact that it's the entire street being rebuilt, not just a bike path.

    I'm sure Fox accidentally left out those details.


    $374k for streetlights?
    46 lights over 4.5 blocks = 10 a block. $8,000 a light = $368,000
    It said "new" street lights. Couldn't they just move the old ones?

    Street lights usually don't deteriorate. It's fabricated metal with wires running inside connected to a bulb.
    I'm sure these new ones are solar powered to reduce carbon footprint or some shit.
    And high-intensity LEDs to bake your retinas.
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  • UWhuskytskeet
    UWhuskytskeet Member Posts: 7,113
    greenblood said:

    UWhuskytskeet said:

    greenblood said:

    UWhuskytskeet said:

    In other words, someone at Fox found the most expensive project in the city - something that ran for FOUR BLOCKS - then calculated that if every project cost this much per city block then the total cost per mile would be that insane number. It's bullshit because there isn't a single mile of bike lane anywhere in Seattle that cost even close to $12 million to build. Nevermind the fact that it's the entire street being rebuilt, not just a bike path.

    I'm sure Fox accidentally left out those details.


    $374k for streetlights?
    46 lights over 4.5 blocks = 10 a block. $8,000 a light = $368,000
    It said "new" street lights. Couldn't they just move the old ones?

    Street lights usually don't deteriorate. It's fabricated metal with wires running inside connected to a bulb.
    I couldn't tell you. Maybe. Who gives a shit.

    The point is the Fox News article is bullshit because there isn't a $12M bike lane. It's a bike lane added on to four blocks of new streets, sidewalks, street lamps, sewers, etc.
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  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,560
    edited May 2018
    Swaye said:

    greenblood said:

    UWhuskytskeet said:

    greenblood said:

    UWhuskytskeet said:

    In other words, someone at Fox found the most expensive project in the city - something that ran for FOUR BLOCKS - then calculated that if every project cost this much per city block then the total cost per mile would be that insane number. It's bullshit because there isn't a single mile of bike lane anywhere in Seattle that cost even close to $12 million to build. Nevermind the fact that it's the entire street being rebuilt, not just a bike path.

    I'm sure Fox accidentally left out those details.


    $374k for streetlights?
    46 lights over 4.5 blocks = 10 a block. $8,000 a light = $368,000
    It said "new" street lights. Couldn't they just move the old ones?

    Street lights usually don't deteriorate. It's fabricated metal with wires running inside connected to a bulb.
    I'm sure these new ones are solar powered to reduce carbon footprint or some shit.
    Couldn't they just offer jobs for some of the homeless, by having them stand on step ladders holding flashlights? Small footprint and you help with the homeless crises.

    Get somebody like me in charge. I'll solve your problems
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