Seattle bike lane reversal-part of national trend. Att. Christopher LeGras All Aspect Rpt

Sliver of sanity beginning to catch on nationally.

• https://allaspectreport.com/2019/06/19/seattle-bike-lane-reversal-a-sliver-of-sanity-reflecting-a-growing-national-trend/

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Cristopher LeGras-"Bike Lanes won't save cyclists who won';t save themselves" July 29th 2019*All Aspect Report*

Attorney & investigative journalist from L.A. shows more awareness from 3000 miles away than
the NYC "visionaries" with their heads in the sky and their minds in the sewer. Also present greater statistical grasp of reality than serial sophist Charles Komanoff-who displays a reckless indifference to human life.

"The response to the accident was predictable to anyone familiar with bike activists and their radical agenda. Rather than using the tragedies of Freelander’s and Highman’s deaths as a teachable moment New York’s bike activists (all 37 of them) went into full outrage mode."


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https://allaspectreport.com/2019/07/29/bike-lanes-cant-save-cyclists-who-wont-protect-themselves-2/

E bike cyclist succumbs to head trauma** Central Park fatality.

Mr. Charles Cheeseboro perished from head trauma suffered when he collided with a 77 year old
man around a 72nd St crosswalk in Central Park.  Wearing no helmet.R.I.P.

Man on e-bike killed in crash with pedestrian in Central Park

Photo: GETTY

By FOX 5 NY STAFF

Posted Aug 29 2019 07:44AM EDT

Updated Aug 29 2019 08:08AM EDT

NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) - A man riding an electronic bicycle in Central Park who collided with a 77-year-old pedestrian has died, according to the NYPD.
Police responded to a 911 call about the man lying on the ground on Aug. 26 at about 3:21 p.m.
Charles Cheeseboro, 43, of Manhattan, suffered head trauma when he was rushed to NY Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He died on Wednesday.

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Cheeseboro was riding the 3-bike on East Drive when he collided with the male pedestrian who was crossing in the crosswalk at 74th St.
An investigation was ongoing.

Christopher Le Gras "Time for cities to acknowledge that Vis-0 & road diets R KILLING PEOPLE

https://allaspectreport.com/2019/08/26/its-time-for-cities-to-acknowledge-that-vision-zero-and-road-diets-are-killing-people/#respond

Fellow citizens: Another penetrating piece by Christopher LeGras. Here he pops the bubble-the sophistry-the myth-the delusion of the "visionaries" and the bodies connected to the arms they twisted-***THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES.*** Right from the misguided beginning Transportation Alternatives displayed a holier than thou-know it all hubris. Refusing to "cooperate" with city agencies to establish a responsible bike culture. Moreover in another act of high arrogance they twisted the arms of Mayors Bloomberg and De Blasio to suppress enforcement by the NYPD. A neat act of subversion. At once undermining the authority of the NYPD and likely undermining the morale. Note the number of police suicides. Note the likely spillover acts of disrespect. The irrational reasoning is that the more bike riders-the safer the streets.( & SIDEWALKS-please ?!). This displayed a reckless disregard for human life.

By conflating a climate change panic with an outsized projection of the virtue of "going green with bikes"-"Praying to a false green God"

the city unleashed bike bedlam. Further the bike infrastructure constrained emergency vehicles. Set the table for world class congestion. Generated 35 billion dollars in lost business in NYC in 2017. Let's give credit where credit is due. Serial sophist Charles

Komanoff  and principal funder Mark Gorton have realized one aspect of their goal. Within the exercise in zealotry they have exerted an undue influence on New York City.  Acutely damaged the quality of life.Successfully become an anti-Robert Moses presence which in the relatively short term has created a comparably unwelcome effect on city well being.Now acknowledged wouldn't it be fair and appropriate to have them be liable for the deaths-the injuries-the level of stress their machinations brought about?

Let's give credit where credit is due.

Now it's time for a turnabout. An independent study is critical. Please extricate the people from this miasma of irrationality and hubris. Faulty thinking. High minded rhetoric and low ball tactics. Time's Up. The  Emperor Wears No Clothes.

Jack Brown

Coalition Against Rogue Riding

Central Park Bike/Ped accident-2 to Cornell Hosp NY 1 & NYDN

More accounts of the Delivery agent pedestrian accident in CP.77 year old ped-43 year old helmetless

biker. Biker seriously injured. Both to Cornell Hospital. All too common occurence. Now tell me citizens do you think this is what the "VISIONARIES" of Transportation Alternatives envisioned? Or did they just overshoot by the dimension of their ego and the profiteers they front for? Think on it.

NY1 News reported 303 ped-cyclist accidents 2018.

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2019/08/27/cyclist-and-pedestrian-collide-in-central-park-

3 more solo bike accidents in park yesterday.

https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-bicylist-critical-after-striking-pedestrian-central-park-20190827-3sfdl2zvqbehtoungcbqeptzhq-story.html

Another day another crash-NO WAIT 3 crashes in one hour Central Park 8-26-19

Another Day Another BIKE CRASH-***Try 3 in one hour*** in Central Park.
NYPD out motioning for cyclists to slow down. Try enforcing the law. Try establishing a
responsible bike culture-if one existed helmets would not be so vital. Another lack. Is it
the New York hustle that creates the bike bedlam? Well if Transportation Alternatives
had run toward instead away from a RESPONSIBLE BIKE CULTURE NYC would be a
safer more prosperous place.

Reporter Gary

Aug 26 at 10:46 PMTHREE bicycle crashes in one hour in Central Park. Cops out telling cyclists to SLOW DOWN. https://twitter.com/JLaytonTV/status/1166175713063591941?s=20 

Electric scooters-15 mph-overrun downtown San Francisco

Electric scooters have overrun downtown San Francisco. The city is setting a 1250 scooter limit-total-
on the last mile transportation vehicles. The darlings of venture capitalists contend that in the end
demand will prevail. Bring on the San Diego scooter Repo Men.

The electric scooter deluge is dividing San Francisco

Published Mon, May 7 2018 8:05 PM EDT

Darren Weaver@dgweav

Ari Levy@levynews

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Electric scooters have overrun downtown San Francisco

In cities all over the U.S., electric vehicles have been popping up from companies like LimeBike, Spin, Bird and Uber’s Jump Bikes. These start-ups have raised hundreds of millions of dollars to solve what some call the last mile transportation problem — the symbolic distance between public transit and the final destination. While consumers may be excited about this influx of new vehicles hitting the road, cities aren’t quite ready for them yet.
Here’s how they work:
First, you use an app on your phone to find a scooter or bike you want to rent. Then walk to it on the street. You unlock it by scanning a QR code on the handle and then you’re off. There’s a brake on one side and a throttle on the other that’ll propel you up to 15 miles per hour.
In downtown San Francisco, the number of electric scooters has surged recently, introducing a host of problems, including people illegally riding on sidewalks, vandalization and parked scooters blocking the walkways. The city even began impounding scooters that are parked illegally.

Aaron Peskin, an elected official from San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors has been swamped with thousands of complaints from frustrated residents, including some who have actually been injured by a scooter. The city’s laws require electric scooter operators to not ride on the sidewalk and to wear a helmet, but looking around this city you’ll notice that barely anyone is following these rules.
“I don’t want these folks ending up in my hospital at the taxpayers’ expense,” Peskin said. “I want our sidewalks to be safe.”
San Francisco will soon start seeing fewer scooters on the road. A new permit process will begin limiting the number of scooters to just 1,250 for the entire city and require companies to register them with the Municipal Transit Authority.
But executives at these companies say this is just the beginning. Ben Bear a VP at Spin told CNBC that “consumer demand will win out in the long run."