{"id":63496,"date":"2017-06-16T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63496"},"modified":"2017-06-16T07:07:39","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T12:07:39","slug":"our-passive-aggressive-overlords-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63496","title":{"rendered":"Our Passive-Aggressive Overlords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thought you&#8217;d enjoy this, from the people who say, &#8220;it&#8217;s not about entitlement for bicyclists, and we don&#8217;t hate cars&#8221; oh really? Yet you say Summit Ave should look like this, congested for one bike rider?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is what Summit should look like. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9cvA7u9k1y\">https:\/\/t.co\/9cvA7u9k1y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Father Sonn (@mikesonn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikesonn\/status\/875338312462073856\">June 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Which links to&#8230;:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is what Summit should look like. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9cvA7u9k1y\">https:\/\/t.co\/9cvA7u9k1y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Father Sonn (@mikesonn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikesonn\/status\/875338312462073856\">June 15, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-image\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/DCOM0BlVoAAM3Wd.jpg:large\" alt=\"\" width=\"447\" height=\"288\" data-height=\"727\" data-width=\"1140\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First things first: I love biking. I love biking on Summit. And there are days when Summit, especially down by Lexington, does look exactly like that.<\/p>\n<p>But the correspondent is right. \u00a0When you watch &#8220;Urban Planners&#8221; (the people who make cyclocentrism possible) when they think nobody&#8217;s watching, the level of Urban Minnesotan Passive-Aggression is nauseating. \u00a0The primary goal is as much about sticking it to drivers as it is about &#8220;bike-friendliness&#8221;; de-timing stoplights, putting obstacles and chicanes in roads to &#8220;calm&#8221; (read: snarl) traffic, and giving away traffic lanes to bikes, transit and trains.<\/p>\n<p>Or whatever. \u00a0As long as the Car People end up getting pissed on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of the blog writes: Thought you&#8217;d enjoy this, from the people who say, &#8220;it&#8217;s not about entitlement for bicyclists, and we don&#8217;t hate cars&#8221; oh really? Yet you say Summit Ave should look like this, congested for one bike rider? &nbsp; This is what Summit should look like. https:\/\/t.co\/9cvA7u9k1y \u2014 Father Sonn (@mikesonn) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63511,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63496\/revisions\/63511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}