Cool or Not Cool: Kiddies in the PPW Bike Lane?

It seems that the proverbial dust has settled with the PPW bike lane debacle and, for the time being, all can bike in peace. Or can they?

A FiPS devotee tells us that she has a new bike lane beef: too many kids in the lanes. Here's what she had to say: 

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[ROUND-UP] Bike Lane Gift Guide

I knew the issue with the Prospect Park Bike Lane had reached epic proportions when my father called me to inform me of two things:

1. The Buffalo Evening News had reported on the shit that was going on with the the bike lane.

2. I must live in the stupidest goddamned neighborhood on the planet.

It's always nice to know that no matter how old you get, your parents, as long as their dialing fingers remain in tact, will always call you up and inform you how you're doing everything wrong.  I don't even care about the bike lane, but somehow I'm lumped into this douchey group of people that MUST have an opinion just via our proximity to the issue.

So, since everyone in this neighborhood HAS to be one one side of the yellow line on this issue, we've put together a Bike Lane Gift Guide for both sides.

Put on your helmets, dbags.

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Park Slope needs A Lithuanian bike lane superhero

First the dismissed lawsuit and now THIS! 

It's every PPW bike lane supporter's wet dream: a government official literally mowing down a car illegally parked in the bicycle lane. The mayor of Lithuania's capital, Vilnius, used an armored vehicle to make an example of a Mercedes (of course!) blocking the bicycle path. Mayor Arturas Zuokas, a bicycle enthusiast and small town hero, was quoted in BBC News as saying, "That's what will happen if you park your car illegally."

The video, available on the Vilnus City website was filmed for Swedish TV series, 99 Things You Should Do Before You Die.

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Ain't Nothin' Gonna Break My Stride: The PPW Bike Lane Is Going Nowhere

Photo via Bike Blog NYCWassah bitches! After lots of drama surrounding the fate of the PPW Bike Lane, a decision has finally been made! Yesterday Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge Bert Bunyan dismissed the lawsuit to remove it. Basically, Neighbors for Better Bike Lanes and Seniors for Safety waited too damn long to formally bitch. The statute of limitations to challenge the lane had expired. 

Jim Walden, pro bono attorney for NBBL and SFS had this sore loser-y comment to make:

The judge had a very different and very independent view of the facts-in fact, than either party.

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Bike Wars: You Just Got un-Served Your Subpeonas

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Wassah!! Someone with a sense of humor other than myself has decided to throw their collective helmets in the PPW bike lane ring. Brownstoner recently reported that two new Pro-bike lane groups have formed. And get this! They've played off the lame names of the PPW bike lane opponents, calling themselves Neighbors For Better Neighbors (NFBN) and Seniors For Civility (SFC). The two new groups propose to counteract the batshit crazy witchhunt tactics of Neighbors for Better Bike Lanes (NBBL) and Seniors for Saferty (SFS).

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