Bike lanes cause impure thoughts

Where are those naked Canadians when you need them

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09122008/news/regionalnews/hasid_lust_cause_128750.htm

It's the Hasids vs. the hotties in a Brooklyn bike war. Leaders of South Wil liamsburg's Hasidic community said yesterday that bike lanes that bring scantily clad cyclists - especially sexy women - peddling through their neighborhood are definitely not kosher. The red-faced religious sect is calling on city officials to eliminate the car-free lanes on Wythe and Bedford avenues, and to delay construction of a new one planned for Kent Avenue. "I have to admit, it's a major issue, women passing through here in that dress code," Simon Weisser, a member of Community Board 1 in Williamsburg-Greenpoint, told The Post. "It bothers me, and it bothers a lot of people." The existing, one-way lanes are popular with North Williamsburg hipsters - many who ride in shorts or skirts. The temporary lane planned for Kent Avenue would be a precursor to a 14-mile greenway stretching from Newtown Creek in Greenpoint to Sunset Park. Hasids are forbidden from looking at members of the opposite sex who aren't fully dressed, said local activist Isaac Abraham. Weisser and other Hasids said during a Sept. 8 community-board meeting that the lanes on Bedford and Wythe avenues should be eliminated if the neighborhood has to accept being part of the greenway. The issue of dress - or lack of it - wasn't brought up at the meeting. Weisser and the other Hasids instead complained publicly about bike lanes allegedly causing parking problems and traffic congestion. Abraham later said another major concern is the safety of children, noting that cyclists "aren't obeying traffic laws. Green lights and red lights are the same." Hasids last month complained about a sexy billboard promoting the teen drama "90210" that could be seen from the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and that featured swimwear-clad characters. A few years back, some residents complained about billboards for "Sex and the City."

and if it was a Musslim group making the complaint...

sorry, that was just my first thought.

It would be just as stupid.

Oh No, sexy women! If we eliminate the bike lanes they will be forced to ride sexily down the street with no bike lane. That will show them.

I was thinking more along the lines of backlash from anti-muslim people and groups.

It's the Hasids vs. the hotties in a Brooklyn bike war. Hasids are forbidden from looking at members of the opposite sex who aren't fully dressed, said local activist Isaac Abraham.

Then they should look the other way. Are their necks broken?

"I am not allowed to look at you so you should change your behavior so that you don't come near me."

EastCoastMojo wrote: "I am not allowed to look at you so you should change your behavior so that you don't come near me."

Yep, f these guys. They want to remove a safety feature on the road so that they will be less likely to have their delicate sensibilities offended.

Offer to move them to the dessert southwest, give them a nice walled-in town? Then they wouldn't have to see anyone they didn't want to.

GlennS wrote: Yep, f these guys.

Are we allowed to f the scantily clad female cyclists as well?

Salanis wrote:

GlennS wrote: Yep, f these guys.

Are we allowed to f the scantily clad female cyclists as well?

Only if you can catch one.

I think their answer is that they need a private compound that they can live on that serves Kool Aid. I like the desert idea too.

Salanis wrote:

GlennS wrote: Yep, f these guys.

Are we allowed to f the scantily clad female cyclists as well?

Nope, i already got dibs.

I'd be more worried about the drivers running into the bicyclists!

They're right... so scandalous!

MitchellC wrote:

What does Abe Lincoln have to do with this?

And it is a woman who was checking out the lady cyclist! LOL

I dunno, but the rider might want to read up on Isadora Duncan. Spokes and long scarves are a bad combination.

Not to mention riding against traffic.

Maybe he's too worried he'll run into his old nemesis, Kung Jew:

That looks more like the ol' reach-around than Kung anything

I love it.

"We moved to a city filled with people and now we want the rest of the city to conform to our religious beliefs."

That's like moving near and airport and complaining about jet noise.

Actually, in Williamsburg, the Hasids have been there much, much longer than the hipsters. Not that it makes their demands any less silly.

....and how often have people gotten the race tracks or airports to change their policies and procedures?

the squeaky wheel(s) get the grease, unfortunately sometimes the nut holding the wheel on instead needs to be adjusted. I just wish there was more of the former rather than the latter going on around the world.

I can't wait for the next round of this, when there is a clash between the bicyclists and the church goers.

i dunno....

I'm pro-lycra on athletic girls..