The sordid relationship is as cryptic as staggering poetry hobbyist trying to make sense of the information age and environmental movement. “Contained within a tantalizingly despondent genealogical quandary, identifying the Y chromosome hereditary traits in the aftermath of the unlikely post-EDM party coupling between bike clubs and land developers remains a contemporary mystery saturated with urban legends.”
British activist group and purveyors of invasive sustainability practices, Sustrans, released a study claiming that automobiles are “discriminatory” towards active lifestyles by preventing empty pavement inspiring individuals to immediately begin training for the next Ironman megathon. In the Beta O’Rourke unbelievable retraction news of the week, the corporatized media released word that the private property seizing organization, disguised as advocates for more pedaling and less talking, is alliterating inanimate objects in promoting an insidious narrative. The UK group recommends that cars should be banned roadways, opening up the floodgates for a celebration of alternative methods of transportation, including a fleet of wheeling desks.
Sustrans CEO Xavier Brice, authored this chilling and telling statement, “Pavement parking is discriminatory against wheelchair and mobility scooter users, other disabled people, those with visual impairments and more.”
The rhetoric indicates the entire gamut of what is wrong with the world today, as the 15-second attention span has marred the mental faculties of those still hanging onto the latent emotions of life is not fair derived on the playgrounds of youth. While, the visceral mentality is lacking, the infrastructure behind the vision of bike riders holding hands to the mawkish choruses of John Denver things are callous and cut throat. Freddy Mercury would have been disappointed in what cycling culture has become.
On the West coast of the US in the deepest of the deepest blue seas of radicalized political depths, the adult stage of the cycling club business model is far from idealistic and closer to the feudal in the aggressive approach to seizing private property and basic rights in exchange for vast profits. The Cascade Bicycle club, a formidable entity based in Seattle, that on the surface advocates for the construction of bike lanes and increased rider-friendly trails, is at the forefront of this controversy. Enter stage right, the developer element, and the entire upside down ponzi-scheme gives an eye-opening look into the disgusting inner workings of crony-Capitalism.
Supported by elected officials of the Seattle city council, the Cascade Bicycle club is currently lobbying for a bike route that will follow a marine route within the Ballard neighborhood and connect with a major conduit, at a price tag of $12 million per mile, not to mention the displacement of light industrial and manufacturing businesses. While the route is illogical on a cavalcade of levels, including adding more distance for riders, the ramifications on the nearby companies that still provide working class jobs within the vortex of high tech salaries will creating an impossible business environment.
Members of the Cascade Bicycle and area developers are hoping that if approved and built, the new trail will eventually force legacy business out, as cyclists and lobbyists will cite safety concerns and noise issues coming from operations and the utilization of semi-trucks. The aforementioned city council, consisting of “elected” officials who are prone to making questionable voting citizens will almost certainly side with the bike lobby, as the ruling organ suffers from a progressive fetish. (Even though Seattle endures roughly nine months of rainy season, and is built upon steep hills, the council allowed a bike sharing group to litter the entire city with electric bicycles that wound up in trees, under water and clogged the sidewalks with discarded machines that the average person gave up riding due to the rigorous conditions). Once it has been established that the local businesses are complicit in creating a hazardous environment for cyclists and pedestrians, the battle begins, with the goal of the club and developers to eventually replace the existing industrial concerns with multi-use facilities that generate tens of millions in tax revenue. Neighborhood property values will likely skyrocket.
While the city of Seattle and King County is thrilled with this possible scenario and the infusion of tax dollars, the dwindling middle class all by disappears from the equation.
A similar phenomenon is occurring with Sustran’s assault on vehicles, as cars are made extinct and developments thrive conducive to pedestrians and bike riders. Businesses that rely on transportation are left to perish within the contrived environment of false pretenses and unsubstantiated studies that are in reality propaganda hit pieces promoting high end urban real estate. While not as egregious as the vast land grabbing scheme of the US federal government exploiting the Endangered Species act to facilitate eminent domain, the ulterior motives of apparent environmental activists waltzing with developers to the lucrative tune of excess cash, is another concrete example of the farce that the Green New Deal is.
For reactionaries, it is all eliminating free will by forcefully removing the driving privileges of residents, unless of course, the vehicle in question is a self-driving Tesla pedestrian killing machine that requires an entire oil tanker payload to construct. If it feels good, all sensibility is paved over by luxury bike lanes. Across the expanse of the globe, citizens must deal with the fringe causes, that naturally are given a voice by social media, and embraced by the numerous pawns of the gullible.