<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for SanFran anti-transit activist puts $1 million between the city and bike infrastructure]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by gregobad http://www.grist.org/article/never-doubt-that-a-single-crank-can-change-the-world/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:20:48 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/never-doubt-that-a-single-crank-can-change-the-world/1 Rob Anderson

To make things even more nonsensical, Rob Anderson himself doesn't own a car and gets around entirely via public transit. He's also unemployed and survives on a stipend he gets for taking care of his elderly mother. Why he has decided to devote himself to his bizarre anti-bike jihad - going so far as to run for city supervisor on an anti-bike platform this year - is beyond my comprehension.

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To make things even more nonsensical, Rob Anderson himself doesn't own a car and gets around entirely via public transit. He's also unemployed and survives on a stipend he gets for taking care of his elderly mother. Why he has decided to devote himself to his bizarre anti-bike jihad - going so far as to run for city supervisor on an anti-bike platform this year - is beyond my comprehension.

]]> Comment #2 by Delay And Deny http://www.grist.org/article/never-doubt-that-a-single-crank-can-change-the-world/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 10:57:04 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/never-doubt-that-a-single-crank-can-change-the-world/2 Petition P-Elect Obama


Sign the petition to our president-elect and congressional leaders, encouraging them to provide explicit funding for biking and walking in the economic recovery package.

http://support.railstotrails.org/recovery

Rails-to-Trails Conservancy will deliver the petition with your name and the many others who believe that balance is critical to our nation's transportation system.

Please ask at least five friends to sign the petition.

http://support.railstotrails.org/recovery

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]]> Petition P-Elect Obama


Sign the petition to our president-elect and congressional leaders, encouraging them to provide explicit funding for biking and walking in the economic recovery package.

http://support.railstotrails.org/recovery

Rails-to-Trails Conservancy will deliver the petition with your name and the many others who believe that balance is critical to our nation's transportation system.

Please ask at least five friends to sign the petition.

http://support.railstotrails.org/recovery

Texeme.Construct.Questioner


]]> Comment #3 by DebraB http://www.grist.org/article/never-doubt-that-a-single-crank-can-change-the-world/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:07:44 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/never-doubt-that-a-single-crank-can-change-the-world/3 it's the judge

The one single crank, that's the judge, right? For being cranky enough to allow the injunction through.

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The one single crank, that's the judge, right? For being cranky enough to allow the injunction through.

]]> Comment #4 by archigeek http://www.grist.org/article/never-doubt-that-a-single-crank-can-change-the-world/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:41:39 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/never-doubt-that-a-single-crank-can-change-the-world/4 Debra...

Word...

The mellotron is your friend.

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Word...

The mellotron is your friend.

]]> Comment #5 by amazingdrx http://www.grist.org/article/never-doubt-that-a-single-crank-can-change-the-world/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:57:31 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/never-doubt-that-a-single-crank-can-change-the-world/5 Team up

The pro-prostitution faction ought to team up with the bike people.  

Rob just needs to get some and relax.  Trying to date a 60 something lawyer is most likely causing much of his crankery?  Just a guess, but imagine negotiating  a once a year tryst with her!

Get him out on a bike with a well mannered prostitute, his mood will improve signifigantly with the exersize, fresh air, and regular sex.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

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The pro-prostitution faction ought to team up with the bike people.  

Rob just needs to get some and relax.  Trying to date a 60 something lawyer is most likely causing much of his crankery?  Just a guess, but imagine negotiating  a once a year tryst with her!

Get him out on a bike with a well mannered prostitute, his mood will improve signifigantly with the exersize, fresh air, and regular sex.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

]]> Comment #6 by JMG http://www.grist.org/article/never-doubt-that-a-single-crank-can-change-the-world/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:02:42 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/never-doubt-that-a-single-crank-can-change-the-world/6 Easier to stop things than start them

Debra, the judge is probably not the crank here.  The basis for issuing injunctions is not whether the judge likes the person seeking it, or supports the program being enjoined, or hates it, or whatever.

Any enviro assessment like an EIS is subject to challenge.  Big EISes are even more so, especially on procedural grounds (i.e., the substance is fine, but the rules weren't followed along the way at some point).

While it's a pain when a project you like gets held up by an objection to the substance or process for an enviro assessment, remember that providing opportunities for such challenges is the whole point of making agencies do them.  If the public couldn't raise objections---and enjoin further work until those objections are shown to be baseless---then the assessment process would be simply useless paperwork.

The 5% Project Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay.


]]> Easier to stop things than start them

Debra, the judge is probably not the crank here.  The basis for issuing injunctions is not whether the judge likes the person seeking it, or supports the program being enjoined, or hates it, or whatever.

Any enviro assessment like an EIS is subject to challenge.  Big EISes are even more so, especially on procedural grounds (i.e., the substance is fine, but the rules weren't followed along the way at some point).

While it's a pain when a project you like gets held up by an objection to the substance or process for an enviro assessment, remember that providing opportunities for such challenges is the whole point of making agencies do them.  If the public couldn't raise objections---and enjoin further work until those objections are shown to be baseless---then the assessment process would be simply useless paperwork.

The 5% Project Let's live on the planet as if we intend to stay.


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