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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

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MisterP

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Fri Oct 23, 2015, 10:00 PM Oct 2015

"taking all three of my daughters to a tattoo parlor and having them completely body tattooed" [View all]

the blue-rinse gentry strike again! and this time Coronado, CA's city council backs down in the face of the rich people's brain-rotting equivalent to meth: insular utter privilege

Then at a City Council meeting last week, residents started putting on the brakes. Although the proposed bike markings would not eliminate parking spaces or driving lanes, they still had complaints. They did not like how the bike lanes would look.
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The lanes “bring to mind a visual cacophony that if you look there long enough it will induce a dizzying type of vertigo,” said Carolyn Rogerson.
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“It’s very similar to personally taking all three of my daughters to a tattoo parlor and having them completely body tattooed,” she said.
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Between 2005 and 2013 there were 803 collisions between bicycles and cars, motorcycles, or trucks in Coronado, according to state data. Seven were fatal and 48 caused severe injury.


http://www.kpbs.org/news/2015/sep/23/coronado-puts-brakes-all-future-bike-lanes-after-r/
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