Opinion of Michael Bloomberg

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

One of the best mayors in NYC history.  I don't understand the hate for Bloomberg.  You must be overrating a few political issues, I don't think being a mayor is like being a governor or Senator.  It's mostly about being an executive who manages a bureaucracy, makes deals and markets your city to the rest of the world.  On the major issue, land use, Bloomberg was actually been great in rezoning the city and supporting a more bike-friendly-pedestrian friendly city.

Why is a more bike-friendly city a good thing?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Why wouldn't it be?

They get in the way of people who actually have things to do, work to go to, and restaurants to eat at. Without bike lanes, cyclists tend to pretend like they're actually part of traffic and get in the way of those who don't pretend that the world was made for their exercise fetishes. I don't see any merit in rewarding them, especially when a perfectly good sidewalk is only a few feet away.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Why wouldn't it be?

They get in the way of people who actually have things to do, work to go to, and restaurants to eat at. Without bike lanes, cyclists tend to pretend like they're actually part of traffic and get in the way of those who don't pretend that the world was made for their exercise fetishes. I don't see any merit in rewarding them, especially when a perfectly good sidewalk is only a few feet away.

That might be the case out where you are, but it's not the case here. And we have increased the number of bike lanes.

I can only hope that their horrible behavior here is not a widespread phenomenon. More than once I've had to deal with oncoming traffic on my left and cyclists on my right (though still on the road) so that driving at anything close to a normal speed would be impossible, and they have little inclination in this neck of the woods to give a darn about that.