by Sean Orr | Newsmaker of the Year. Not the pseudo-fascist crackdown on Olympic protesters, not the 15% income tax cut that was taken back from us, not the surprise guilty plea in the BC Rail case, not the loss of more social housing at the Olympic Village, not Translink’s bankruptcy, not the privatisation of BC Ferries, not the cuts to arts, not the murder and abuse of women by drugdealers in the DTES, not the gutting of the libraries and parks budgets, not even the smoking ban in parks. No. It’s fucking bike lanes. God we’re boring.
That being said, what is with the complete reversal by the media on the interruption to small business? It was OK when it was in the name of 2010’s Great Winter Party to decimate an entire street for years, but not OK in the name of Pinko Lefties? Hmm….
Vancouver police launch Twitter marathon. I wonder what their hashtag for #crackhead is going to be?
Surrey mom wants to save your (sexy) soul. No thanks. I’d rather listen to Sex Church than go to one.
13-year-old Nanaimo boy stabbed in a fight police believe was arranged on Facebook. Man, whatever happened to meet me at the bike rack after school?
$17.5 million home sale likely tops Vancouver record. It may not be as evocative an image of class divide as this one, but it should still make you feel pretty gross inside.
5 Vancouver Twitter accounts worth following. Again, “Why Wasn’t I Picked”? (best meme 2010?)
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I think you column is intended to be a little sarcastic but it kinda comes of as a real ultra cynical rant. You must feel as though everyone who reads scout is a pig hating anarchist and that we really do live in some kind of matrix. I just don’t get the angle of it. It must be unintended because it seems you can write quite well. Is this the editorial department demanding this or do they just turn you loose?
If he is the least bit trite it never gets published.
I don’t even understand the accusation. The news is absurd, and the first paragraph of my post proves it. The things that they are consider are important are ridiculous. I don’t think it’s so binary that you have to be a “pig hating anarchist” to enjoy Tea and Two Slices. I mean, how is a 17 million dollar house sustainable? How does that make us any better? What’s the angle? Anger mostly. Frustration. And of course, as you mentioned, deep deep cynicism.
I mean god, if nothing more, at least its an antidote to the rantings of Jon Ferry, Brian Allen, Mark Hasiuk, Mike Klassen, Bob Mackin, Christy Clarke, or Gary Mason
It’s also open season on bikes in Strathcona.
RIP Union Street bike route.
Get onto Prior with the rest of the dangerous speeding road warriors.
Stay tuned.
The Union bike route needs a solution of some kind. I just about get takin’ out there at least twice a day. People heading north/south just don’t stop.
taken…wtf?
Yeah. They need to change the direction of the stop sign.
Oh, and pedestrians should cross at the corner, or else jet a jay walking ticket.
Look both ways people.
What’s wrong with putting the bike route on Prior?
If they can put a barricaded and dedicated route on Hornby Street (which has significantly less bicycle traffic that Union/Adnac) then why not for one of the busiest bike routes in the city (3,000+/day) which is becoming increasingly dangerous for the pedestrians that live and walk in our community.
Moving the bike route to Prior could be a win win for cyclists and Strathcona.
Less car traffic on Prior, cyclists can go as fast as they please and less anxiety for the besieged residents of Strathcona (not hyperbole: observe the intersection of Hawks and Union and count the number of cyclists who bother to stop for pedestrians at the marked stop/crosswalk)
And why should the stop sign direction be changed?
Hawks and Union is the ONLY right of way for pedestrians wishing to cross Union. Is it that big a deal for you to stop at the crosswalk?
The real irony is that more and more cyclists (typically of the spandex clad, self-important, commuter class male variety) are becoming like the car drivers they so love to vilify. It’s a residential neighbourhood – not a freeway.
The hypocrisy of cyclists (including myself) cracks me up. We holler at cars to watch out as not to kill us poor, delicate riders, then cavalierly strafe pedestrians and tell THEM to watch out.
Whoa, Geoffro made a post without referencing beards.
Nearly ever time I ride on Union, I have cars speeding past me to get to Union market.
How fast must they be going?
Pardon me. Edit:
The bearded hypocrisy of cyclists (including myself) cracks my beard up. We holler at beard-cars to watch out as not to kill us poor, bearded, delicate beard-riders, then cavalierly strafe pedestrians’ beards and tell THEM to beard out.
Much better.