Dotriderblog seems to be one of the few in the Boston bike scene who dares say anything bad about the senseless and wasteful bike share plan. It started when all of Cambridge and Somerville was included but NOT an equivalent area and population of the ACTUAL City of Boston. The anti-ism goes up everytime we hear that Nicole Freedman is too busy to do what she should be doing. It went through the roof at the safety summit when Ms. Freedman was espousing on the nuances of finding local shops to offer helmet rental near kiosks…(There’s someone too far into details thus proving its unviability in one sentence). Now, what was supposed to be at no cost has snagged $3 million in Federal TAX dollars (who pays that?) to buy bikes? How about plans for a seperate bike track on Talbot Ave? How about not taking sharos south of Glovers Corner in Dorchester when the road south of Melville Ave down to Lower Mills would be plenty wide enough for lanes? How about any paving project in Boston having some form of bicycle accomodation put into it? Sorry we’re too busy making an accomodation for tourists who wouldn’t make a trip where a sharo goes in a car (unless it was a cab) anyway. I feel like the kid who said the emperor has no clothes… Why do I feel this way? 25+ years of community activism has made me a cynic I guess. Does anyone have a reasoned response to my anti-ride-sharism? So far I haven’t heard one. I’m open though….
