WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.480 --> 00:00:01.480 It's nice Eyes. 2 00:00:04.240 --> 00:00:06.000 Boston's News Radio. 3 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:11.359 All right, everyone, welcome back here. It is eleven oh 4 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:13.839 seven and we're moving into our fourth and final hour. 5 00:00:14.000 --> 00:00:16.480 First of all, a big thank you to Mark Missilback. 6 00:00:16.519 --> 00:00:20.320 If you missed either of those hours, you can listen 7 00:00:20.399 --> 00:00:23.399 to them. Rob will have them posted at nightside and demand. 8 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:29.320 Mark is a brilliant, brilliant tax analyst, strategist, whatever you 9 00:00:29.359 --> 00:00:35.399 want to call it, a professional CPA with Cherry b 10 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:42.679 Art Beck Art Advisory LC and just does a does 11 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:45.719 a great job. And we will probably try to prevail 12 00:00:45.799 --> 00:00:50.840 upon him to come back before well maybe it's sometime 13 00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:53.840 later this month, but I think all the callers were 14 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:56.840 called and I realized that sometimes it's tough to get 15 00:00:56.840 --> 00:00:58.840 your questions out. But we tried to give everybody as 16 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:04.680 lunch time as post. Now before we I'll move on, 17 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:11.840 let me remind you that tomorrow night we have a 18 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:17.400 special guest lined up in the ten o'clock hour, Carrie Brett, 19 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:21.560 who is a professional photographer one a member of the 20 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:24.120 Brett family Bill Brett, as you all know, and she's 21 00:01:24.159 --> 00:01:29.200 written a book called Shot at Love, and her first 22 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:32.760 book as an author. She's done books with photographs. This 23 00:01:32.879 --> 00:01:37.079 is her book as an author. It's her journey that 24 00:01:39.040 --> 00:01:42.640 she found herself divorced with a with a young baby, 25 00:01:43.840 --> 00:01:50.200 and she's her journey bringing up the child, working as 26 00:01:50.239 --> 00:01:56.799 a celebrity photographer, uh and all the steps along the 27 00:01:56.840 --> 00:02:02.760 way to find love. And she has found love. And 28 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:05.439 we're going to talk about that. Tomorrow night is Valentine's Day. 29 00:02:05.480 --> 00:02:07.799 She will be my very special guest at ten o'clock 30 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:12.719 tomorrow night, and I think that all of you, whether 31 00:02:12.800 --> 00:02:16.240 you are alone this Valentine's Day or whether or not 32 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:19.000 you're in a good, solid relationship, I think that you 33 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:22.599 will enjoy her as a guest. And also the stories 34 00:02:22.719 --> 00:02:25.719 she has dealt with lots and lots of celebrities. And 35 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:28.000 one of the things she found out and that she 36 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:30.719 will talk about tomorrow night is that the celebrities who 37 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:33.520 all of us you think they never have care in 38 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:36.759 the world, they go through the same ups and downs 39 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:39.039 that all of us go through and the heartache that 40 00:02:39.080 --> 00:02:43.400 all of us periodically suffer in our own lives. It's 41 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:46.080 a pretty inspiring book, and I think you'll enjoy the 42 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:50.680 conversation tomorrow night with Carrie Brett. We also have I'm 43 00:02:50.719 --> 00:02:54.080 working on a special guest at nine o'clock tomorrow night 44 00:02:54.120 --> 00:02:56.639 as well. I do not want to identify that special 45 00:02:56.639 --> 00:03:00.400 guest until I can nail it down now tonight, in 46 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:03.159 this final hour, I want to talk about a story 47 00:03:03.159 --> 00:03:05.280 that you might say, well, Gid, and that's a local story. 48 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:08.919 You tend to go national. We've gone national this week. 49 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:13.879 We have talked about the the USA cuts that President 50 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:18.639 Trump has attempted to impose. We talked last night about 51 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:23.919 his step back on to the international stage, his policy change, 52 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:29.719 the administration's policy change towards Ukraine, and and also well 53 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:35.919 the implications that has for Ukraine and also for the 54 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:40.680 for Russia and and for the European Fernato. We did 55 00:03:40.680 --> 00:03:42.599 all of that last night. So I want to talk 56 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:45.960 about a local story in both the Globe and the 57 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:52.759 Herald today. Maywu apparently has decided that the bus lane 58 00:03:53.479 --> 00:03:56.280 that is on bois Boylston Street. If any of you 59 00:03:56.360 --> 00:04:00.800 have ever driven down Boyleston Street is it's a one 60 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:04.919 way street, as you know, from let's say Massachusetts Avenue 61 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:10.039 towards the Public Garden, uh and the Boston Common and 62 00:04:10.759 --> 00:04:14.360 there's a bus lane actually this this, I guess there's 63 00:04:14.360 --> 00:04:19.600 two bus lanes really and there's a you have, of course, 64 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:23.040 a but one bus lane and a bike lane. Uh, 65 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:27.959 it's a mess. It's a mess. The Back Bay Association 66 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:34.399 fought tooth and nails against this when it was when 67 00:04:34.439 --> 00:04:38.759 it was constructed, they lost. Uh. And and Mayor who 68 00:04:38.800 --> 00:04:43.279 now was having some second thoughts about that lane. Apparently 69 00:04:43.319 --> 00:04:47.240 she's also having some second thoughts about other bike lanes. 70 00:04:47.720 --> 00:04:51.079 I think the bike lanes and the bus lanes in 71 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:55.560 Boston are a disaster now. They were started in fairness, 72 00:04:56.279 --> 00:04:57.959 uh to mayor. Where when we always want to be 73 00:04:58.040 --> 00:05:02.000 fair to the mayor? Uh? Dating back to Tom Monino's administration, 74 00:05:02.040 --> 00:05:06.040 who became a bicyclist late in his life, and he 75 00:05:07.439 --> 00:05:10.839 really was the one who started bike lanes that continued 76 00:05:11.399 --> 00:05:15.519 under Boston Mayor Mighty wallsh but they have exploded under 77 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:20.120 Mayor under the Wood administration. And I don't care if 78 00:05:20.160 --> 00:05:22.319 you live in West Roxbury and you see what has 79 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:26.399 been done to Center Street what those they call it 80 00:05:26.480 --> 00:05:29.000 the diet believe it or not? D I e t 81 00:05:29.639 --> 00:05:33.360 what a meta, what a euphemism that is for what 82 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:37.800 has been done to West Roxbury. I don't know if 83 00:05:37.839 --> 00:05:40.959 we can reverse all the bike lanes in Boston, but 84 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:45.920 they're everywhere in Boston. If you've driven in Boston at 85 00:05:45.959 --> 00:05:48.480 any time in the last year, you know of what 86 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:52.279 I speak. At the same time, other communities are just 87 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:56.360 as bad. Certainly Somerville is right up there, Cambridge is 88 00:05:56.439 --> 00:06:00.800 right up there. They're now leaking into other communities. And 89 00:06:00.879 --> 00:06:03.759 I suspect that at this hour the night, at eleven o'clock, 90 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:07.480 we have listeners around the country in other parts of 91 00:06:07.519 --> 00:06:11.079 the country and other big cities where bike lanes. This 92 00:06:11.120 --> 00:06:17.240 is a national effort by I guess the progressives or 93 00:06:17.279 --> 00:06:19.759 the bike lobby, whatever you want to call it, who 94 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:24.560 would like to turn every American city into Amsterdam or Copenhagen. 95 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:30.079 And it just is. It doesn't work. It doesn't work. 96 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:33.120 The amount of space that's given to bike lanes and 97 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:36.639 bus lanes is not commensurate with the amount of people 98 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:40.759 that use bike lanes and bus lanes. In a city 99 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:46.240 like Copenhagen, where I have been, they had bike lanes 100 00:06:46.279 --> 00:06:49.399 and bike lanes. It looks like the equivalent of the 101 00:06:49.439 --> 00:06:53.639 Southeast Expressway. That is not the situation here. So I 102 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:55.920 guess what I'd like to do is just open up 103 00:06:55.920 --> 00:06:59.040 the lines and hear from you, there's no doubt in 104 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:01.319 my mind that we have gone way too far, way 105 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:05.800 too fast on bike lanes in Boston, and it will 106 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:12.720 eventually cripple Boston because you cannot bike in Boston twelve 107 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:15.240 months a year. Look at what we've been dealing with 108 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:18.560 the snow the last well the last two or three weeks. 109 00:07:19.639 --> 00:07:22.680 Very few people are fewer people than normal are in 110 00:07:22.720 --> 00:07:26.319 those bike lanes, and I suspect it's the same in 111 00:07:26.360 --> 00:07:30.439 a lot of cities and communities around the country. We 112 00:07:30.519 --> 00:07:34.360 cannot give up, we cannot assume. I was told by 113 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:39.319 a Democratic State Senator, Nick Collins that Boston has spent 114 00:07:39.360 --> 00:07:43.120 one hundred and twenty one million dollars. We have a 115 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:47.600 failing school system. We have MPTA problems that are just 116 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:52.120 extraordinary compared to other cities. You go to San Francisco 117 00:07:52.199 --> 00:07:54.720 and you look at the Bay Area rapid transit system, 118 00:07:54.759 --> 00:07:58.000 much better than Massachusetts, for that matter, even New York. 119 00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:03.160 We have just lost of our collective mind over bike 120 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:08.680 lanes because drivers who are impacted by bike lanes have 121 00:08:08.839 --> 00:08:15.879 not stood up with the same amount of uniformity unity, 122 00:08:15.920 --> 00:08:19.759 if you will. The bike lobby is very very effective 123 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:28.160 and bikes bikes pay no excise tax they use the roads. 124 00:08:28.399 --> 00:08:30.959 They're not insured, at least in Boston. I don't know 125 00:08:30.959 --> 00:08:36.679 what it is. In other communities they do not for 126 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:42.080 the most part, comply with traffic signals. It has turned, 127 00:08:42.279 --> 00:08:45.480 it will turn American cities. The effort is to turn 128 00:08:45.519 --> 00:08:48.759 it into Europe. The politicians are doing it for one reason, 129 00:08:49.080 --> 00:08:51.720 and that is to get elected. Because the bike lobby 130 00:08:51.759 --> 00:08:54.279 goes to the politicians and says, if you give us 131 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:58.039 bike lanes, we guarantee you every one of our members 132 00:08:58.080 --> 00:09:01.120 and associates will vote for you. Which is fine, But 133 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:04.039 in a city like Boston, where it's not uncommon to 134 00:09:04.080 --> 00:09:07.840 have fifteen or twenty percent of the registered voters vote 135 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:12.480 in an election, the folks who get elected are the progressives. 136 00:09:12.799 --> 00:09:16.000 Now we will have a mayor's fight here in Boston. 137 00:09:17.279 --> 00:09:20.480 Certainly Josh Kraft, who have had on the program, is 138 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:25.960 going to be a formidable opponent for Mayor Wu. It's 139 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:28.799 going to be a tough battle, There's no doubt about that. 140 00:09:28.879 --> 00:09:32.519 It is not an easy battle to unseat an incumbent 141 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:36.279 mayor in Boston, but it's happened in other cities. So 142 00:09:36.320 --> 00:09:40.639 I want to focus on bike lanes. Are you tired, 143 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:43.720 are you fed? Up. Have you had enough bike lanes? 144 00:09:44.120 --> 00:09:48.840 Try Beacon Street. Try Beacon Street driving, drive on a 145 00:09:48.919 --> 00:09:53.039 Sunday from the top of Beacon Hill, or drive from 146 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:55.799 Charles Street down Beacon Street to Mass Avenue. It's going 147 00:09:55.840 --> 00:09:58.720 to take you fifteen or twenty minutes. Okay, that used 148 00:09:58.720 --> 00:10:02.080 to be a street where trapped moved pretty clearly, pretty cleanly, 149 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:07.519 pretty quickly. Doesn't anymore. Six one, seven, two, five, four thirty. 150 00:10:08.000 --> 00:10:10.320 I have a couple of lines there. The other lines 151 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:13.000 are filled up. I'd love to hear from you. If 152 00:10:13.039 --> 00:10:19.399 you're a real proponent of bike lanes everywhere, feel free. 153 00:10:19.440 --> 00:10:21.279 I'll be I'll be glad to talk to you. I'd 154 00:10:21.320 --> 00:10:26.240 like to talk to you. But but the bike lanes. 155 00:10:26.759 --> 00:10:29.879 We have lost our collective mind over the bike lanes, 156 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:32.759 and a lot of businesses, whether they run Mass Avenue 157 00:10:32.759 --> 00:10:37.000 and Cambridge or Center Street in West Roxbury, are absolutely 158 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:40.159 adversely affected, and that is eventually going to affect the 159 00:10:40.240 --> 00:10:44.080 quality of life in every city where bike lanes are 160 00:10:44.759 --> 00:10:51.120 so common. Simple as that, let's let's let's let's take 161 00:10:51.159 --> 00:10:54.759 a step back, stop the bike lanes and actually begin 162 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:58.440 to say, look, we don't need bike lanes on every street. 163 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:02.960 I've gone through some of the naighborhoods Dorchester, Roxbury, Mattapan. 164 00:11:03.200 --> 00:11:06.240 There are bike leans on streets in that those communities. 165 00:11:08.759 --> 00:11:12.440 There's enough that you lose the parking. You have one 166 00:11:12.559 --> 00:11:17.200 lane of traffic. That's all you have. As you can tell, 167 00:11:17.240 --> 00:11:20.879 I feel strongly about it, and I will say if 168 00:11:20.960 --> 00:11:23.679 Mayor Will takes that bus lane off of Boylston Street, 169 00:11:24.159 --> 00:11:27.440 that is a win. But it is only the first 170 00:11:27.600 --> 00:11:32.200 of many wins that motorists have to win in order 171 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:36.080 to take back the streets of Boston. They do not 172 00:11:36.360 --> 00:11:39.679 belong to bicyclists in my opinion. Back on Nightside, I 173 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:42.320 feel strongly if you disagree, love to hear from me. 174 00:11:42.360 --> 00:11:44.279 If you agree, love to hear from me. It doesn't matter. 175 00:11:44.600 --> 00:11:47.039 And if you are in another community, in another part 176 00:11:47.039 --> 00:11:49.080 of the country and you've been been set by the 177 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:52.600 same problem, whether it's whether it's Baltimore or Washington, or 178 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:57.120 Philadelphia or Detroit, Albany, New York, with any city within 179 00:11:57.159 --> 00:11:59.039 the sound of my voice, I love to hear from 180 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:01.000 you as well. Back on night we'll get it going 181 00:12:01.399 --> 00:12:02.480 right after the break. 182 00:12:03.799 --> 00:12:06.759 Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World 183 00:12:06.919 --> 00:12:10.600 night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio. 184 00:12:10.799 --> 00:12:12.360 All Right, let's get it go. I'm gonna start off 185 00:12:12.360 --> 00:12:14.639 with John and Brantree. Hey, John, welcome you a first 186 00:12:14.679 --> 00:12:15.759 this hour in Nightside. 187 00:12:16.399 --> 00:12:18.480 Hey Dan, Captain Hindsight reporting in. 188 00:12:18.639 --> 00:12:22.679 Hey, hey Captain Hindsight. Go right ahead, sir listen. 189 00:12:23.039 --> 00:12:25.679 I'm probably not the right person if you're looking for 190 00:12:25.720 --> 00:12:30.200 some an advocate for the pipe lanes. But man Senna Street. 191 00:12:29.559 --> 00:12:32.440 I got caught in that once and I haven't been 192 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:37.440 back there since. Same thing with Cummings Highway. It became ridiculous. 193 00:12:38.519 --> 00:12:40.200 I would if you don't mind, I'd like to take 194 00:12:40.240 --> 00:12:43.279 off a little bit off the subject and focusing on 195 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:49.720 bike riders and their behavior. Thank you. I'm just shocked 196 00:12:49.919 --> 00:12:54.399 at how many bike riders and let's just say cyclists, 197 00:12:54.399 --> 00:12:58.240 because you got the little scooters zipping around, and how 198 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:00.679 few of them are wearing helmets for the first thing. 199 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:04.440 Second thing is how hard they are to see sometimes 200 00:13:04.480 --> 00:13:07.440 at dusk and getting in dark. They wear such dark 201 00:13:07.720 --> 00:13:11.120 they wear earth toned clothes. And I don't know what 202 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:14.120 the I don't know what the new statistics are, but 203 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:16.960 people must be getting knocked off left and right more 204 00:13:17.000 --> 00:13:18.080 than ever before now. 205 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:20.639 I mean it's so hard. You have some of the 206 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:25.200 kids who are using these, uh the these scooters who 207 00:13:25.240 --> 00:13:28.360 are just out there raising hell. I mean they want 208 00:13:28.360 --> 00:13:31.480 to cause you know, you know, chaos. And then you 209 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:34.440 have others out there who are using them individually. And 210 00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:36.399 then you have others who are doing it for food delivery. 211 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:40.080 They're using it basically it's it's their business. 212 00:13:40.919 --> 00:13:43.639 And I did have some suggestions too, so go ahead, 213 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:48.320 go ahead, a couple of suggestions. One thing I have 214 00:13:48.519 --> 00:13:50.240 is that, by the way, if you're going to use 215 00:13:50.279 --> 00:13:53.320 our roads and share them with us, you need to 216 00:13:53.320 --> 00:13:55.440 start paying up. You need to have a license, you 217 00:13:55.480 --> 00:13:58.080 need to have the bike has to have signals, that 218 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:00.240 bike has to have lights, you have to wear a 219 00:14:00.279 --> 00:14:03.639 fluorescent jacket. And this is only if you give a 220 00:14:03.679 --> 00:14:07.759 crap about your own life. I mean I can't. 221 00:14:09.440 --> 00:14:12.519 It's your responsibility to avoid them. I mean, there's a 222 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:15.000 Laura in Massachusetts. I think if you come up on 223 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:21.159 a bike bicyclist who's on I'm sure, but you get 224 00:14:21.200 --> 00:14:24.120 the right away like four feet no, no, four feet 225 00:14:24.399 --> 00:14:27.639 give them four feet room. A lot of roads, you 226 00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:31.600 legitimately can't give them four feet road four feet of space. 227 00:14:31.960 --> 00:14:34.440 So what you're left to do you got to stand 228 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:37.120 behind them while they're going five miles or six miles an. 229 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:40.879 Hour, right. And the other thing is, would there be 230 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:47.120 any issue with taking sidewalks and on alternate years making 231 00:14:47.240 --> 00:14:50.399 a sidewalk one side for pedestrians in the other side 232 00:14:50.399 --> 00:14:53.399 for bicyclists each you know, every other year. I mean, 233 00:14:53.639 --> 00:14:56.720 I can't imagine the businesses that are money. 234 00:14:56.799 --> 00:14:58.440 What do you say, what do you say to the 235 00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:00.360 to the to the business own on? 236 00:15:01.879 --> 00:15:04.320 No, that's okay. You can still walk across the street 237 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:06.399 and go to a business. It would still be easier 238 00:15:06.399 --> 00:15:09.159 than what's going on with the bike lanes now. It's 239 00:15:09.240 --> 00:15:11.480 just that you would have more parking for the cars 240 00:15:12.039 --> 00:15:15.279 and people could I can't even go to a hardware 241 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:17.440 store on Center Street. You can't find a spot, and 242 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:20.279 I can't take twenty minutes to go up and down 243 00:15:20.279 --> 00:15:20.879 there during this. 244 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:25.159 By the way, I just so you know, ironically, you 245 00:15:25.240 --> 00:15:27.559 mentioned I know the hardware store you're talking about. I 246 00:15:27.600 --> 00:15:29.360 go to that hardware store. And the reason I go 247 00:15:29.399 --> 00:15:31.919 to the hardware store it's a small hardware store. It's 248 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:35.480 a small business. I hate going to the so called 249 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:38.399 big box stores, and so I would rather pay a 250 00:15:38.440 --> 00:15:41.559 little extra go because I saved the time and money. 251 00:15:41.600 --> 00:15:44.279 I walk in the door, I see someone there, I say, hey, 252 00:15:44.320 --> 00:15:46.360 can you tell me where this is? In most of 253 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:49.000 the cases at that hardware store, they'll walk you down 254 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:52.799 the aisle and they'll show you exactly down. 255 00:15:53.200 --> 00:15:56.399 I don't have the time any store. Yeah, you still 256 00:15:56.440 --> 00:15:58.879 have the time the extra fifteen to twenty minutes ago. 257 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:02.519 Now I avoid Center Street. I'm just going down the 258 00:16:02.600 --> 00:16:05.559 VFW Parkway and I'll catch it back up on Center 259 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:09.600 Street or Baker Street up. It's just easier, you know. So. 260 00:16:09.960 --> 00:16:12.639 And I just wish any bicyclists listening to if you've 261 00:16:12.679 --> 00:16:15.480 got kids riding bikes, make sure they're wearing some bright 262 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:18.000 colors and get them some lights. Jesus, And there's not 263 00:16:18.080 --> 00:16:20.440 too much to ask. It's for their lives, it's not 264 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:23.200 for us. I'd feel horrible if I ever hit one. 265 00:16:23.320 --> 00:16:25.759 And I was hit as a youngster by a car 266 00:16:25.960 --> 00:16:29.639 and it was horrible. But today I can see how 267 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:35.519 people are easily getting knocked up. They're wearing earth toned grays, blacks, browns, 268 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:37.519 and you can't see them. 269 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:41.759 So they view themselves as kings of the road and 270 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:46.559 that they have really priority, they have special protection, special lanes. 271 00:16:46.759 --> 00:16:48.399 I don't want to see when we get hurt either. 272 00:16:48.759 --> 00:16:53.519 But I think that the bicyclists have really exercised political 273 00:16:53.559 --> 00:16:57.279 cloud with this mayor in this city council in Boston, 274 00:16:57.320 --> 00:16:59.320 and I'm sure they've done it elsewhere as well. I 275 00:16:59.399 --> 00:16:59.840 hate to do it. 276 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:06.839 Thanks for taking a call. Someday get somebody from episodes 277 00:17:06.880 --> 00:17:09.119 to explain our Raising dills is a topic if you 278 00:17:09.160 --> 00:17:10.799 have here care for Thanks. 279 00:17:11.079 --> 00:17:14.559 We're working on that. I'm actually working on that, and 280 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:17.160 that might be my topic tomorrow night at nine o'clock. 281 00:17:19.039 --> 00:17:22.000 I guessed it. You thought you would keeping as a 282 00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:23.519 secret until you know for sure. 283 00:17:24.440 --> 00:17:27.039 That's fine. We'll see, we'll see. Thanks, Thank you, John, 284 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:30.240 appreciate it. Good night. Let me go to Joe and Boston. 285 00:17:30.319 --> 00:17:32.240 Joe your next time nights, I go right ahead. 286 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:36.480 Good evenings on my brother, My brother, I. 287 00:17:36.440 --> 00:17:39.480 Know how you feel about bike lanes. Go ahead, Joe, 288 00:17:41.680 --> 00:17:42.720 drive a lot. 289 00:17:42.400 --> 00:17:46.160 Yes, you're just spoke, he talked in a few points 290 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:49.519 in works Rosy. My favorite restaurant is I'm gonna give 291 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:51.559 him a plug. My Sun Center. 292 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:54.359 I know a great restaurant. 293 00:17:55.519 --> 00:17:56.359 They are great. 294 00:17:57.000 --> 00:17:58.680 They are ten minutes for my house. 295 00:17:59.160 --> 00:18:00.279 I'm able to her. 296 00:18:00.680 --> 00:18:04.799 Tell me why and you're not cooking tonight. We'll gonna 297 00:18:04.880 --> 00:18:08.680 share a meal, you know. For me to go down there, 298 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:10.839 I can never find a parking spa. I just park 299 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:15.119 on them, literally on the bike leans, and its insane 300 00:18:16.799 --> 00:18:19.880 right there. I mean, I heard that Mayo Wood decided 301 00:18:19.920 --> 00:18:22.039 to do away with the bus lanes and now on 302 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:23.119 Boston streets. 303 00:18:25.960 --> 00:18:29.079 Yeah, let's but that's a start. But but let's keep going. 304 00:18:30.599 --> 00:18:34.319 Another thing that I heard is that he got rid 305 00:18:34.359 --> 00:18:37.079 of a few bumps, those new bumps that they put 306 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:43.200 on the streets speed so that they're everywhere. Yeah, speat bumps. However, 307 00:18:43.519 --> 00:18:47.200 what they instead of putting these speed bumps, what they 308 00:18:47.200 --> 00:18:50.599 don't take the output and fill up the holes that 309 00:18:50.680 --> 00:18:52.359 they got, the path holes that they got all over 310 00:18:52.400 --> 00:18:55.240 the streets is insanity dead. 311 00:18:56.000 --> 00:19:00.440 No, No, you're right. If this, if the speed don't 312 00:19:00.440 --> 00:19:03.640 slow you down, the potholes will. Maybe they don't feel 313 00:19:03.680 --> 00:19:09.519 them for a reason, I don't know. Yeah, but no street. 314 00:19:10.519 --> 00:19:11.240 The worst. 315 00:19:12.519 --> 00:19:14.680 I heard about this guy that he wants to get 316 00:19:14.799 --> 00:19:15.599 rid of the bike lanes. 317 00:19:15.640 --> 00:19:21.880 No more bike lanes. So I think in fairness, what 318 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:25.279 Josh Kraft has said is he doesn't want any more 319 00:19:25.400 --> 00:19:28.480 bike lanes. I think he should look, you know, his 320 00:19:28.599 --> 00:19:31.400 campaign's going to evolve. He did. He didn't come across 321 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:35.359 as anti bike lanes, but I think that that he's saying, hey, 322 00:19:35.400 --> 00:19:37.319 we got enough as it is. I think we need 323 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:39.519 to pair back. I think they need to get those 324 00:19:39.559 --> 00:19:42.039 bike lanes out of Senate Street. In West Roxbury. There 325 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:45.039 were community meetings though out there. The Mayor's office went 326 00:19:45.079 --> 00:19:48.599 out and they basically rolled over the residents of West Roxbury. 327 00:19:48.920 --> 00:19:51.640 It was like, we're gonna do it. Tell us what 328 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:53.920 you think, but it doesn't matter what you think, and 329 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:56.160 we're gonna do it. And they did it. 330 00:19:56.720 --> 00:19:59.599 And that's the thing with Michelle Woods. She's also listened 331 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:01.599 to any but it. She's always going to do it 332 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:04.440 this way and that's it. You take it and you're 333 00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:08.200 gonna like it. And you know, that's why she's. 334 00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:08.559 Going to lose. 335 00:20:08.559 --> 00:20:10.160 He's going to be a one term maya. 336 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:13.359 She's gonna I mean, he's probably having panic attacks right 337 00:20:13.400 --> 00:20:16.720 now because this guy is going to win. Everybody's going 338 00:20:16.799 --> 00:20:18.839 to back them up. I'm going to back them up myself. 339 00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:22.319 Well, I think that he's done a lot. You know, 340 00:20:22.400 --> 00:20:24.559 Josh Kraft has done a lot in the community, has 341 00:20:24.599 --> 00:20:27.440 been involved in the Boys and Girls clubs. Uh, with 342 00:20:27.559 --> 00:20:33.359 the the Urban League and you have. He has tremendous 343 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:36.960 support in minority communities here in Boston particularly. 344 00:20:37.799 --> 00:20:40.240 He's been bringing out to a lot of people. 345 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:42.519 Yeah. Absolutely, I've been bringing. 346 00:20:42.279 --> 00:20:44.279 Out to a lot of people that I actually know 347 00:20:44.519 --> 00:20:47.960 involved in politics in Boston. In myself that I very 348 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:51.680 seldom get involved. I have been involved with a few 349 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:56.759 condiments in the past, and they've been winners. And I mean, 350 00:20:56.880 --> 00:20:59.119 I'm willing to go all out for him. 351 00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:02.000 All right, Joe, I'm up on my break here. I 352 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:03.960 don't mean to cut you short, but I got a 353 00:21:04.000 --> 00:21:07.680 break for news as always. Thank you for your friendship, 354 00:21:07.720 --> 00:21:10.839 thank you for your loyalty. And I'll see you at 355 00:21:11.440 --> 00:21:13.920 that restaurant in West Roxbury. Maybe, yes, some night we 356 00:21:14.039 --> 00:21:17.039 grab some week weeknight, we'll grab dinner or something. 357 00:21:17.079 --> 00:21:19.640 Okay they got. 358 00:21:20.799 --> 00:21:24.279 Not weeknight, weekend night, like I said, Sunday Saturday or 359 00:21:24.359 --> 00:21:28.319 Sunday night. Okay, we'll talk about it. Thanks Joe, very 360 00:21:28.440 --> 00:21:30.920 good dad, Thank you, my friend. Don't you soon. Good night. 361 00:21:31.599 --> 00:21:33.680 Here comes the news at the bottom of the hour. 362 00:21:34.279 --> 00:21:34.400 Uh. 363 00:21:35.240 --> 00:21:38.680 Everything. The only line that's open right now is six, one, seven, nine, three, one, 364 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:41.960 ten thirty. Uh. And if you're calling from out of town, 365 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:44.960 and you have concerns about bike lanes in your community. 366 00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:49.000 Whatever your point of view is is welcome. Okay. I 367 00:21:49.319 --> 00:21:51.279 will admit to you I have a very strong point 368 00:21:51.279 --> 00:21:55.000 of view. I think that they're incompatible with Boston. It's 369 00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:58.599 as simple as that. They're absolutely incompatible. But they have 370 00:21:58.680 --> 00:22:05.119 a very effective bike lobby, which I think has influenced 371 00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:10.119 mayoral elections. And I think that we've reached a point where, 372 00:22:10.920 --> 00:22:13.640 if the mayor are smart, she's gonna take the buck 373 00:22:13.799 --> 00:22:16.000 bus lane out on Boylston Street. There were some other 374 00:22:16.039 --> 00:22:18.200 bike lanes that kind of go. Let's start with Center 375 00:22:18.240 --> 00:22:21.519 Street in West Roxbury. Back on Nightside, right after this. 376 00:22:25.599 --> 00:22:30.759 Night Side with Dan Ray on w B Boston's news radio. 377 00:22:31.720 --> 00:22:33.680 All right, thank you, Dan Watkins. It's got right back 378 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:35.440 to the call. It's gonna go to gym in Kansas City. 379 00:22:35.480 --> 00:22:36.960 Gym next one nights. I go right ahead. 380 00:22:38.319 --> 00:22:39.960 Yeah, hey, thanks for taking my call. 381 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:41.119 How are you? 382 00:22:41.079 --> 00:22:44.480 You were great? Are you in downtown Kansas City? Can 383 00:22:44.519 --> 00:22:47.079 you tell us what the bike lane situation is like there? 384 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:50.920 I'm not in it, but yeah, I've been down there 385 00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:54.119 quite a bit. Yeah I can tell you what it's like. Yeah, 386 00:22:54.160 --> 00:22:59.799 there are bike lanes almost everywhere. It's from what I gather, 387 00:23:00.039 --> 00:23:03.839 it's not as I look at the map a little bit. Uh, 388 00:23:04.279 --> 00:23:07.599 Kansas City is not quite as crowded and chopped up 389 00:23:07.640 --> 00:23:09.039 as Boston is. 390 00:23:09.720 --> 00:23:11.640 I have been to Kansas City. It's a nice It's 391 00:23:11.640 --> 00:23:14.920 a much more effectively laid out city. I would agree 392 00:23:14.960 --> 00:23:15.240 with you. 393 00:23:16.599 --> 00:23:17.599 Well, in a certain way. 394 00:23:17.680 --> 00:23:19.480 It kind of is. I don't know how many real 395 00:23:19.640 --> 00:23:21.920 how many trains you got there? I mean, you got 396 00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:25.680 the ocean, I mean so, I don't know, but yeah, 397 00:23:25.720 --> 00:23:28.480 there's bike lanes there. The bike lanes quite a few 398 00:23:28.480 --> 00:23:28.759 of them. 399 00:23:29.279 --> 00:23:30.200 Do people like them or. 400 00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:35.599 I don't know. I don't know. I haven't done much 401 00:23:35.599 --> 00:23:37.400