INVASION BY THE PARKING SNATCHERS (A BAD SCIENCE FICTION MOVIE BY THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION) (DOT)

 #InvasionbytheParkingSnatchers (A Bad Science Fiction Movie by the New York City Department of Transportation) (DOT)

    MY RESPONSE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (DOT) ON THEIR BIKE PROGRAM INSANITY IN NEW YORK CITY... IT IS CAUSING PARKING ISSUES, SAFETY ISSUES (FOR BIKERS, DRIVERS, PEDESTRIANS - CHILDREN, ADULTS, AND OUR MOST VULNERABLE - THE ELDERLY), GARBAGE ISSUES (WHICH THEY DO MAKE AN EFFORT TO CLEAN UP), AND NOISE ISSUES (LOUD CLANGING BIKE RACK SOUNDS OUTSIDE OUR BEDROOM WINDOWS DURING SLEEPING HOURS)...

 

...You people at NYC DOT are destroying our City with every bike station you install. Are bikers the only people you care about? You are making the city unsafe and dangerous for bikers, pedestrians, drivers; stealing parking from drivers amuses you! The loud clanging of bikes being put back on racks outside our windows/bedroom windows is an added gift to us from your insanity. Criminal! - Shame on you for getting away with this. Bicyclists feel so entitled by your program that they feel drivers who lose parking because of this program should pay for garages. They believe the streets are only for them, not the drivers. Your doing, DOT! Our community leaders here are in cahoots with the DOT. Vote them out and defund the DOT! Take our City back! DOT is like a bad science fiction movie... #InvasionbytheParkingSnatchers

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(See the Department of Transportation's (DOT) Post on Facebook, below):  (INSANITY THROUGHOUT NYC)

NYC DOT 

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We want NYC to be the most bike-friendly city, and that includes expanding bike parking. Today we installed a new #BikeNYC corral on 7th Ave between W 42nd-W 41st St that is 39 racks long!

Check out our bike parking map for more locations: nyc.gov/bikeparking

 

 

 

 

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Good Day All:

Just wanted to share a photo of this table lamp (bought two of them at "Wayfair" online). I fell in love with these lamps as I kept looking at them online for about a week, until I decided that they should be mine - so I ordered them. They found a home in my living room and I am glad they did, because they are stunning to me. They add a touch of romance with a hint of the Victorian era, which I find absolutely intriguing.

 

SO I SAY:

"Let the Light Shine"

(A Victorian Lamplight)

 

A Lamplight glows

A Lamplight speaks

It tells a tale of romance

It lights up a room with love

Victorian-era essence

Casts its glow from long ago

Shadows of the past

Visits in the Present

Taking a seat in my welcoming home

Transcending time forever

Telling the Secrets generations kept hidden

Some were quite endearing

While others sadly forbidden

Its Lamplight lives on

Nurtured by spirits of the past

Existing by lives of the present

Oblivious to a new future

While gracing this lovely abode

It has seen life, death, joy and love

Peace, hope; prayers from up above

With flickering stare and eternal light

It comforts us from morning ‘til night

It has wiped away our tears

It has stripped away our fears

It has laughed as loud as I

It has separated truth from lie

It has blanketed us on a winter’s night

When we felt cold and full of fright

It shielded us from thrashing winds outside

And flickered a smile from our table with pride

It hears our conversations

With family and friends upon the sofa

Some words are harsh, many are kind

My lamplight knows what was on our mind

It understands the human way

It shares our lives every day

It never judges or turns its back

Always filled with patience

A virtue we humans sometimes lack

...Yesterday, Today or Tomorrow

History will come and go

New faces will make their entrance

Greeted by the mystical glow

of a stately Victorian Table Lamp

…One I will forever be honored to know!

 

BIKE STATION ON MANHATTAN AVENUE BETWEEN AINSLIE AND DEVOE STREET

LISTEN AND WATCH (CLICK LINK BELOW) THE NEWS STORY, COVERING THIS ISSUE, FROM NEWS12 BROOKLYN - NEWSREPORTER FAITH GRAHAM:

 

 https://brooklyn.news12.com/new-citi-bike-station-causes-community-unease

 

The NYC Bike Share Program is causing chaos in NYC, especially in front of residential properties. A Bike Station has been installed on our stretch of Manhattan Avenue, between Ainslie and Devoe Streets, Brooklyn, NY, going across/in front of four properties, including mine. We have lost 100 plus feet of much needed and much used parking space.

This insane plan is a danger for elders who cannot safely walk from their front doors (and vice versa) to waiting cars, cabs or access-a-ride without navigating in between and/or around these bikes. 

All residents on these four properties are blocked from immediate access to their street, and the NYPD, FDNY and EMS will have to navigate around this bike station in order to get to these residents in an emergency.

What about furniture and appliance deliveries? Sidewalk repairs/construction/cement trucks - no access to the sidewalk. We can no longer hook up a garden hose to wash our cars in front of our homes. What about snow removal? No room to push the snow into the street.

We now have parking and safety issues; garbage issues in and around the bikes and bike station; noise issues as the bikes are removed and put back on the bike racks; The constant clanging of bikes, especially at night, while we are sleeping, and right in front of our bedroom windows, is causing a noise issue way beyond the decibel pitch acceptable during evening hours. 

The DOT is okay with their reckless bike program and they refuse to compromise with us in relocating this bike station to a commercial property, a park, a vacant lot, a school, etc...all available spaces within this same vicinity. These spaces have wide sidewalks to place the bike station on which would keep both bikers and drivers happy, saving much needed parking space. 

The DOT should be defunded for their role in hurting residents on residential properties and causing chaos on our streets. They are pushing the Green New Deal, and trying desperately to get rid of cars. Communism in America.

GREAT ARTICLE:

https://gothamist.com/news/dot-is-not-god-it-is-possible-to-get-citi-bike-racks-removed

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