You can count me among those who were disappointed to hear that the Democratic National Convention is going to be bike free. As reported by the Colorado Independent:
Organizers for the Democratic National Convention and party leaders have touted the official greenness of the upcoming convention in Denver, including everything from biodiesel buses and recyclable materials to carbon counting.
But in the rush to secure everything green -— even setting up a “hybrid-only parking lot” at the Pepsi Center -— it seems one simple and fairly obvious LEED-certified step was overlooked: Installing bike racks.
Indeed, there will be no bikes allowed within the DNC perimeter of the Pepsi Center, nor at Invesco Field, where Barack Obama will deliver his acceptance speech, DNCC organizers confirmed this week.
I’m a bit baffled because one of the concerns sited is security. Did I miss an announcement citing the bicycle as a security threat risk? As I read this news I thought back to this picture:
What is it your are looking at here? You are looking at a taxi that just randomly caught on fire outside the NBC studio in New York City. It would seem to me that cars, with large tanks filled with highly flammable liquids would pose just the tiniest bit more of a security risk than bicycles, but that’s just me.
I am not loyal to one political party or the other, they both disappoint me on numerous counts but it is easy to see who I will be voting for by visiting a previous post.
I am disappointed by the decision of the DNCC not to promote cycling as a part of it’s convention agenda. I will not be at the convention, but I offer this up to anyone who might be. Maybe a group of like minded folks can stand outside the Pepsi Center and to the tune of Imagine by John Lennon offer the following . . .
Imagine there’s no combustion engines
It’s easy if you try
No oil streak below us
Above us only car pollution free sky
Imagine all the people
Traveling by bike…
Imagine there’s no car companies
It isn’t hard to do
No oil to drill or lie for
And reduced carbon dioxide too
Imagine all the people
Riding bikes in peace…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll pedal with us
And the world will bike in the sun
Imagine no congestion
I wonder if you can
No need for road rage
A brotherhood of bikes
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the roads…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will bike as one
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Okay the “bike” thing is just fine for day to day things, but how do you suppose i visit my daughter and get her back home in a 72 hour period on a bike? Not to mention how are we going to transport goods Nationwide let alone internationally? Have we thought about people who are physically unable to bike? There has to be a ssolution we just need to realize that one solution is not the answer, only multiple solutions will do as we are a nation spoiled by convenience.
What’s the point of this security measure? They should have banned all cars and make it all about bicycles, I don’t know what where they thinking. You are absolutely right about the danger or explosion with cars. The story makes no sense; it has to be a mistake or something. If not, I am very interested in finding the explanation.