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.
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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.