Good GOD, you do not live in Seattle, do you? This sounds just like the nightmare scenario I meet every day. The things the hobos do on those bikes makes me cringe when i see the tourist smiling away while pedaling along. <barf>
We have light rail, street cars, buses, and more lame excuses for transit that get just enough ridership to keep the idiot politicians smiling. The streets are clogged with Uber and Lyft goons who recklessly swerve around in traffic causing near or real accidents. The drivers are not native born, I wonder how they even understood the driver test questions. No need to mention the LEOs who have no desire to Serve or Protect. When I approach them with what should be solidly in their wheelhouse, they respond with some version of “not my job”. Parking enforcement refuses to actually enforce. They park in a manner that obstructs fire plugs, watch pedestrians nearly become hood ornaments instead of directing traffic (for which they are getting overtime pay), they do “undercover” surveillance in marked cars instead of interceding in the hobos stealing electronics, dealing drugs and selling underage hookers. I was watching this whole mess, and came to the conclusion that the simplest way to invade this nation would be to come in under cover of being homeless. Set up tents upon sidewalks and streets, parks and freeway interchanges, keep the weapons in RVs parked around town. Gather enough soldiers in this manner, which the civilian population and LEOs will ignore, then, with a few thousand invisible partisans, you take over the city and county. clay 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green 1986 SDL - Polei 1982 300 SD - Allen retired models- 2002 s430 - Victor, a Stately & well tailored crap 1976 300D - Blei Vanst - it looks silvery 1972 220D - Gump - She was green, simple and ran 1995 E300D - Gave her life to save me against a Dame in a SUV POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers > On Jun 1, 2018, at 9:33 AM, G Mann via Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > I'm seeing an excellent example of the urban socialization in action here > with bicycles. The city spent multiple Billion$ of federal money > constructing a light rail system, which destroyed established businesses > along it's entire route, because the rail line down the middle of the > street blocks access to "the other side of the street" businesses. Then, to > encourage users of the "light rail" system to ride and actually get to > their business or work, bicycle stands were placed with rent bikes unlocked > and rented by smart phone. The bikes are yellow or green. After just a few > months, the homeless have found a way to unlock the "smart phone locked > bikes" and steal and strip them, or use them at will. Yellow and Green > bikes are now found in alleys being used as free transportation by the > homeless and addicted. The bike company is part of "public transport" and > now complaining about the upkeep cost and lack of traffic. > The "light rail" company has, after 3 years of operation, failed to make a > profit, and is unable to pay it's electric bill to run the trains. During > the 3 years, trains have hit, on average, one car per month, injuring many > occupants. > Someone made the decision to spend Billions for a system that, to date, is > a business failure. > In my considered opinion, self driving cars fall into that same category. > America is a country of individual freedom. In action, the "light rail" and > "self driving cars" both push against that base mind set. Ultimately, the > law of UN-intended consequences will bite them both. > > On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 9:01 AM, Curley McLain via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> Nor maintain flight attitude. >> >> Curt Raymond via Mercedes wrote: >> >>> I'm wondering why there seems to be no focus on self driving trains. >>> Seems like thats low hanging fruit, you don't have to steer... >>> -Curt >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
