We’ve all heard Vancouver’s bike lanes have caused a bit of “stir” recently. But all the opponents out there should remember it could be a lot worse. Don’t believe me? Check out what Arturas Zoukas, mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania recently did to a car that had “parked illegally” in a bike lane.
According to Gawker (where I found this little gem) Zoukas:
combined the focus on sustainability of 21st-century urban administrative practices with the focus on tanks of 20th-century Soviet-style urban administrative practices and took an armored personnel carrier to the streets for a video in which he ran over a Mercedes-Benz parked, illegally, in a bike lane… The run-over was all staged, which is disappointing, but it doesn’t make the sight of that car being crushed any less sweet. Mayors: This is how you may.
Don’t believe it? Watch the video. Bloggers just can’t make this stuff up.
To add to this, we must also look here at the Vancouver Bike Lane Nazis:
And as for Mayor Ford and bicycles, this speaks well to his insight on the [ahem, his] world:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwxiv2aznB0
How on earth this person was voted in as Mayor speaks to all of those who elected him. That, I realize, is not the topic of this blog post.