Well a week away hasn’t softened much of dotriderblog’s hard edge. It’s odd how being on an island with no paved roads and no external infrastructure should remove you from the day’s issues. Well, over 100 mylar balloons later and nearly being flattened by a young lad joy riding on the family ATV kept it real for me.
This is not bike related, but if you EVER get a helium balloon don’t ever let it go! There are literally thousands of them floating around the ocean. Is Helium a green house gas too? It’s amazing how interconnected we are…
The other observation I made is that hardly anyone walked or rode a bike on this island. Everyone rode, even a few doors on their ATV, golf cart or broken down pick up to do the most mundane things. This makes me think that our overall society is so motor vehicle centric that it will take $6 gasoline to break the cycle and it has to be ther for a long time. The idling DPW vehicle in front of the sub shop today on Centre Street is the same to me as these folks riding everywhere. One would think they’d want to save the gasoline they have to carry over to use… The DPW guy? Just wasting tax payer money and he doesn’t care…
On my way home a week ago last Friday I was riding by Franklin Field (sorry Harambee Park) and I was watching the hoard of scooters dominating the pathway across the park from Talbot to the Housing Development across the way. I was thinking, ‘who’s coming down on those guys? It’s starting to look like trouble to me…’ Well sadly my suspicions proved correct and now the Mayor and the Cops are doing mia culpa let’s fix this reaction to something that ALREADY happened instead of trying to be proactive. Now we’ll get more cops on Talbot Ave, while the punch list to finish the the parts of the lane that the contractor forgot to install won’t happen…
Which brings me to the question of why would the Mayor want to add more laws controling scooters? There are plenty already. How about getting the Cops to enforce them! Simple request no? They are hard to catch, especially when you’re sitting in your cruiser oblivous thanks to the computer and other distractions that remove you from the outside world that are inside.
Well that was a rant! Sorry it’s all over the place. I guess the week off did something. Now for another! Peddle on!
