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Speaker 3: All right, everyone, welcome back here. It is eleven oh
Speaker 3: seven and we're moving into our fourth and final hour.
Speaker 3: First of all, a big thank you to Mark Missilback.
Speaker 3: If you missed either of those hours, you can listen
Speaker 3: to them. Rob will have them posted at nightside and demand.
Speaker 3: Mark is a brilliant, brilliant tax analyst, strategist, whatever you
Speaker 3: want to call it, a professional CPA with Cherry b
Speaker 3: Art Beck Art Advisory LC and just does a does
Speaker 3: a great job. And we will probably try to prevail
Speaker 3: upon him to come back before well maybe it's sometime
Speaker 3: later this month, but I think all the callers were
Speaker 3: called and I realized that sometimes it's tough to get
Speaker 3: your questions out. But we tried to give everybody as
Speaker 3: lunch time as post. Now before we I'll move on,
Speaker 3: let me remind you that tomorrow night we have a
Speaker 3: special guest lined up in the ten o'clock hour, Carrie Brett,
Speaker 3: who is a professional photographer one a member of the
Speaker 3: Brett family Bill Brett, as you all know, and she's
Speaker 3: written a book called Shot at Love, and her first
Speaker 3: book as an author. She's done books with photographs. This
Speaker 3: is her book as an author. It's her journey that
Speaker 3: she found herself divorced with a with a young baby,
Speaker 3: and she's her journey bringing up the child, working as
Speaker 3: a celebrity photographer, uh and all the steps along the
Speaker 3: way to find love. And she has found love. And
Speaker 3: we're going to talk about that. Tomorrow night is Valentine's Day.
Speaker 3: She will be my very special guest at ten o'clock
Speaker 3: tomorrow night, and I think that all of you, whether
Speaker 3: you are alone this Valentine's Day or whether or not
Speaker 3: you're in a good, solid relationship, I think that you
Speaker 3: will enjoy her as a guest. And also the stories
Speaker 3: she has dealt with lots and lots of celebrities. And
Speaker 3: one of the things she found out and that she
Speaker 3: will talk about tomorrow night is that the celebrities who
Speaker 3: all of us you think they never have care in
Speaker 3: the world, they go through the same ups and downs
Speaker 3: that all of us go through and the heartache that
Speaker 3: all of us periodically suffer in our own lives. It's
Speaker 3: a pretty inspiring book, and I think you'll enjoy the
Speaker 3: conversation tomorrow night with Carrie Brett. We also have I'm
Speaker 3: working on a special guest at nine o'clock tomorrow night
Speaker 3: as well. I do not want to identify that special
Speaker 3: guest until I can nail it down now tonight, in
Speaker 3: this final hour, I want to talk about a story
Speaker 3: that you might say, well, Gid, and that's a local story.
Speaker 3: You tend to go national. We've gone national this week.
Speaker 3: We have talked about the the USA cuts that President
Speaker 3: Trump has attempted to impose. We talked last night about
Speaker 3: his step back on to the international stage, his policy change,
Speaker 3: the administration's policy change towards Ukraine, and and also well
Speaker 3: the implications that has for Ukraine and also for the
Speaker 3: for Russia and and for the European Fernato. We did
Speaker 3: all of that last night. So I want to talk
Speaker 3: about a local story in both the Globe and the
Speaker 3: Herald today. Maywu apparently has decided that the bus lane
Speaker 3: that is on bois Boylston Street. If any of you
Speaker 3: have ever driven down Boyleston Street is it's a one
Speaker 3: way street, as you know, from let's say Massachusetts Avenue
Speaker 3: towards the Public Garden, uh and the Boston Common and
Speaker 3: there's a bus lane actually this this, I guess there's
Speaker 3: two bus lanes really and there's a you have, of course,
Speaker 3: a but one bus lane and a bike lane. Uh,
Speaker 3: it's a mess. It's a mess. The Back Bay Association
Speaker 3: fought tooth and nails against this when it was when
Speaker 3: it was constructed, they lost. Uh. And and Mayor who
Speaker 3: now was having some second thoughts about that lane. Apparently
Speaker 3: she's also having some second thoughts about other bike lanes.
Speaker 3: I think the bike lanes and the bus lanes in
Speaker 3: Boston are a disaster now. They were started in fairness,
Speaker 3: uh to mayor. Where when we always want to be
Speaker 3: fair to the mayor? Uh? Dating back to Tom Monino's administration,
Speaker 3: who became a bicyclist late in his life, and he
Speaker 3: really was the one who started bike lanes that continued
Speaker 3: under Boston Mayor Mighty wallsh but they have exploded under
Speaker 3: Mayor under the Wood administration. And I don't care if
Speaker 3: you live in West Roxbury and you see what has
Speaker 3: been done to Center Street what those they call it
Speaker 3: the diet believe it or not? D I e t
Speaker 3: what a meta, what a euphemism that is for what
Speaker 3: has been done to West Roxbury. I don't know if
Speaker 3: we can reverse all the bike lanes in Boston, but
Speaker 3: they're everywhere in Boston. If you've driven in Boston at
Speaker 3: any time in the last year, you know of what
Speaker 3: I speak. At the same time, other communities are just
Speaker 3: as bad. Certainly Somerville is right up there, Cambridge is
Speaker 3: right up there. They're now leaking into other communities. And
Speaker 3: I suspect that at this hour the night, at eleven o'clock,
Speaker 3: we have listeners around the country in other parts of
Speaker 3: the country and other big cities where bike lanes. This
Speaker 3: is a national effort by I guess the progressives or
Speaker 3: the bike lobby, whatever you want to call it, who
Speaker 3: would like to turn every American city into Amsterdam or Copenhagen.
Speaker 3: And it just is. It doesn't work. It doesn't work.
Speaker 3: The amount of space that's given to bike lanes and
Speaker 3: bus lanes is not commensurate with the amount of people
Speaker 3: that use bike lanes and bus lanes. In a city
Speaker 3: like Copenhagen, where I have been, they had bike lanes
Speaker 3: and bike lanes. It looks like the equivalent of the
Speaker 3: Southeast Expressway. That is not the situation here. So I
Speaker 3: guess what I'd like to do is just open up
Speaker 3: the lines and hear from you, there's no doubt in
Speaker 3: my mind that we have gone way too far, way
Speaker 3: too fast on bike lanes in Boston, and it will
Speaker 3: eventually cripple Boston because you cannot bike in Boston twelve
Speaker 3: months a year. Look at what we've been dealing with
Speaker 3: the snow the last well the last two or three weeks.
Speaker 3: Very few people are fewer people than normal are in
Speaker 3: those bike lanes, and I suspect it's the same in
Speaker 3: a lot of cities and communities around the country. We
Speaker 3: cannot give up, we cannot assume. I was told by
Speaker 3: a Democratic State Senator, Nick Collins that Boston has spent
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty one million dollars. We have a
Speaker 3: failing school system. We have MPTA problems that are just
Speaker 3: extraordinary compared to other cities. You go to San Francisco
Speaker 3: and you look at the Bay Area rapid transit system,
Speaker 3: much better than Massachusetts, for that matter, even New York.
Speaker 3: We have just lost of our collective mind over bike
Speaker 3: lanes because drivers who are impacted by bike lanes have
Speaker 3: not stood up with the same amount of uniformity unity,
Speaker 3: if you will. The bike lobby is very very effective
Speaker 3: and bikes bikes pay no excise tax they use the roads.
Speaker 3: They're not insured, at least in Boston. I don't know
Speaker 3: what it is. In other communities they do not for
Speaker 3: the most part, comply with traffic signals. It has turned,
Speaker 3: it will turn American cities. The effort is to turn
Speaker 3: it into Europe. The politicians are doing it for one reason,
Speaker 3: and that is to get elected. Because the bike lobby
Speaker 3: goes to the politicians and says, if you give us
Speaker 3: bike lanes, we guarantee you every one of our members
Speaker 3: and associates will vote for you. Which is fine, But
Speaker 3: in a city like Boston, where it's not uncommon to
Speaker 3: have fifteen or twenty percent of the registered voters vote
Speaker 3: in an election, the folks who get elected are the progressives.
Speaker 3: Now we will have a mayor's fight here in Boston.
Speaker 3: Certainly Josh Kraft, who have had on the program, is
Speaker 3: going to be a formidable opponent for Mayor Wu. It's
Speaker 3: going to be a tough battle, There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 3: It is not an easy battle to unseat an incumbent
Speaker 3: mayor in Boston, but it's happened in other cities. So
Speaker 3: I want to focus on bike lanes. Are you tired,
Speaker 3: are you fed? Up. Have you had enough bike lanes?
Speaker 3: Try Beacon Street. Try Beacon Street driving, drive on a
Speaker 3: Sunday from the top of Beacon Hill, or drive from
Speaker 3: Charles Street down Beacon Street to Mass Avenue. It's going
Speaker 3: to take you fifteen or twenty minutes. Okay, that used
Speaker 3: to be a street where trapped moved pretty clearly, pretty cleanly,
Speaker 3: pretty quickly. Doesn't anymore. Six one, seven, two, five, four thirty.
Speaker 3: I have a couple of lines there. The other lines
Speaker 3: are filled up. I'd love to hear from you. If
Speaker 3: you're a real proponent of bike lanes everywhere, feel free.
Speaker 3: I'll be I'll be glad to talk to you. I'd
Speaker 3: like to talk to you. But but the bike lanes.
Speaker 3: We have lost our collective mind over the bike lanes,
Speaker 3: and a lot of businesses, whether they run Mass Avenue
Speaker 3: and Cambridge or Center Street in West Roxbury, are absolutely
Speaker 3: adversely affected, and that is eventually going to affect the
Speaker 3: quality of life in every city where bike lanes are
Speaker 3: so common. Simple as that, let's let's let's let's take
Speaker 3: a step back, stop the bike lanes and actually begin
Speaker 3: to say, look, we don't need bike lanes on every street.
Speaker 3: I've gone through some of the naighborhoods Dorchester, Roxbury, Mattapan.
Speaker 3: There are bike leans on streets in that those communities.
Speaker 3: There's enough that you lose the parking. You have one
Speaker 3: lane of traffic. That's all you have. As you can tell,
Speaker 3: I feel strongly about it, and I will say if
Speaker 3: Mayor Will takes that bus lane off of Boylston Street,
Speaker 3: that is a win. But it is only the first
Speaker 3: of many wins that motorists have to win in order
Speaker 3: to take back the streets of Boston. They do not
Speaker 3: belong to bicyclists in my opinion. Back on Nightside, I
Speaker 3: feel strongly if you disagree, love to hear from me.
Speaker 3: If you agree, love to hear from me. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 3: And if you are in another community, in another part
Speaker 3: of the country and you've been been set by the
Speaker 3: same problem, whether it's whether it's Baltimore or Washington, or
Speaker 3: Philadelphia or Detroit, Albany, New York, with any city within
Speaker 3: the sound of my voice, I love to hear from
Speaker 3: you as well. Back on night we'll get it going
Speaker 3: right after the break.
Speaker 2: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 2: night Side Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3: All Right, let's get it go. I'm gonna start off
Speaker 3: with John and Brantree. Hey, John, welcome you a first
Speaker 3: this hour in Nightside.
Speaker 4: Hey Dan, Captain Hindsight reporting in.
Speaker 3: Hey, hey Captain Hindsight. Go right ahead, sir listen.
Speaker 4: I'm probably not the right person if you're looking for
Speaker 4: some an advocate for the pipe lanes. But man Senna Street.
Speaker 4: I got caught in that once and I haven't been
Speaker 4: back there since. Same thing with Cummings Highway. It became ridiculous.
Speaker 4: I would if you don't mind, I'd like to take
Speaker 4: off a little bit off the subject and focusing on
Speaker 4: bike riders and their behavior. Thank you. I'm just shocked
Speaker 4: at how many bike riders and let's just say cyclists,
Speaker 4: because you got the little scooters zipping around, and how
Speaker 4: few of them are wearing helmets for the first thing.
Speaker 4: Second thing is how hard they are to see sometimes
Speaker 4: at dusk and getting in dark. They wear such dark
Speaker 4: they wear earth toned clothes. And I don't know what
Speaker 4: the I don't know what the new statistics are, but
Speaker 4: people must be getting knocked off left and right more
Speaker 4: than ever before now.
Speaker 3: I mean it's so hard. You have some of the
Speaker 3: kids who are using these, uh the these scooters who
Speaker 3: are just out there raising hell. I mean they want
Speaker 3: to cause you know, you know, chaos. And then you
Speaker 3: have others out there who are using them individually. And
Speaker 3: then you have others who are doing it for food delivery.
Speaker 3: They're using it basically it's it's their business.
Speaker 4: And I did have some suggestions too, so go ahead,
Speaker 4: go ahead, a couple of suggestions. One thing I have
Speaker 4: is that, by the way, if you're going to use
Speaker 4: our roads and share them with us, you need to
Speaker 4: start paying up. You need to have a license, you
Speaker 4: need to have the bike has to have signals, that
Speaker 4: bike has to have lights, you have to wear a
Speaker 4: fluorescent jacket. And this is only if you give a
Speaker 4: crap about your own life. I mean I can't.
Speaker 3: It's your responsibility to avoid them. I mean, there's a
Speaker 3: Laura in Massachusetts. I think if you come up on
Speaker 3: a bike bicyclist who's on I'm sure, but you get
Speaker 3: the right away like four feet no, no, four feet
Speaker 3: give them four feet room. A lot of roads, you
Speaker 3: legitimately can't give them four feet road four feet of space.
Speaker 3: So what you're left to do you got to stand
Speaker 3: behind them while they're going five miles or six miles an.
Speaker 4: Hour, right. And the other thing is, would there be
Speaker 4: any issue with taking sidewalks and on alternate years making
Speaker 4: a sidewalk one side for pedestrians in the other side
Speaker 4: for bicyclists each you know, every other year. I mean,
Speaker 4: I can't imagine the businesses that are money.
Speaker 3: What do you say, what do you say to the
Speaker 3: to the to the business own on?
Speaker 4: No, that's okay. You can still walk across the street
Speaker 4: and go to a business. It would still be easier
Speaker 4: than what's going on with the bike lanes now. It's
Speaker 4: just that you would have more parking for the cars
Speaker 4: and people could I can't even go to a hardware
Speaker 4: store on Center Street. You can't find a spot, and
Speaker 4: I can't take twenty minutes to go up and down
Speaker 4: there during this.
Speaker 3: By the way, I just so you know, ironically, you
Speaker 3: mentioned I know the hardware store you're talking about. I
Speaker 3: go to that hardware store. And the reason I go
Speaker 3: to the hardware store it's a small hardware store. It's
Speaker 3: a small business. I hate going to the so called
Speaker 3: big box stores, and so I would rather pay a
Speaker 3: little extra go because I saved the time and money.
Speaker 3: I walk in the door, I see someone there, I say, hey,
Speaker 3: can you tell me where this is? In most of
Speaker 3: the cases at that hardware store, they'll walk you down
Speaker 3: the aisle and they'll show you exactly down.
Speaker 4: I don't have the time any store. Yeah, you still
Speaker 4: have the time the extra fifteen to twenty minutes ago.
Speaker 4: Now I avoid Center Street. I'm just going down the
Speaker 4: VFW Parkway and I'll catch it back up on Center
Speaker 4: Street or Baker Street up. It's just easier, you know. So.
Speaker 4: And I just wish any bicyclists listening to if you've
Speaker 4: got kids riding bikes, make sure they're wearing some bright
Speaker 4: colors and get them some lights. Jesus, And there's not
Speaker 4: too much to ask. It's for their lives, it's not
Speaker 4: for us. I'd feel horrible if I ever hit one.
Speaker 4: And I was hit as a youngster by a car
Speaker 4: and it was horrible. But today I can see how
Speaker 4: people are easily getting knocked up. They're wearing earth toned grays, blacks, browns,
Speaker 4: and you can't see them.
Speaker 3: So they view themselves as kings of the road and
Speaker 3: that they have really priority, they have special protection, special lanes.
Speaker 3: I don't want to see when we get hurt either.
Speaker 3: But I think that the bicyclists have really exercised political
Speaker 3: cloud with this mayor in this city council in Boston,
Speaker 3: and I'm sure they've done it elsewhere as well. I
Speaker 3: hate to do it.
Speaker 4: Thanks for taking a call. Someday get somebody from episodes
Speaker 4: to explain our Raising dills is a topic if you
Speaker 4: have here care for Thanks.
Speaker 3: We're working on that. I'm actually working on that, and
Speaker 3: that might be my topic tomorrow night at nine o'clock.
Speaker 4: I guessed it. You thought you would keeping as a
Speaker 4: secret until you know for sure.
Speaker 3: That's fine. We'll see, we'll see. Thanks, Thank you, John,
Speaker 3: appreciate it. Good night. Let me go to Joe and Boston.
Speaker 3: Joe your next time nights, I go right ahead.
Speaker 5: Good evenings on my brother, My brother, I.
Speaker 3: Know how you feel about bike lanes. Go ahead, Joe,
Speaker 3: drive a lot.
Speaker 5: Yes, you're just spoke, he talked in a few points
Speaker 5: in works Rosy. My favorite restaurant is I'm gonna give
Speaker 5: him a plug. My Sun Center.
Speaker 3: I know a great restaurant.
Speaker 6: They are great.
Speaker 5: They are ten minutes for my house.
Speaker 6: I'm able to her.
Speaker 5: Tell me why and you're not cooking tonight. We'll gonna
Speaker 5: share a meal, you know. For me to go down there,
Speaker 5: I can never find a parking spa. I just park
Speaker 5: on them, literally on the bike leans, and its insane
Speaker 5: right there. I mean, I heard that Mayo Wood decided
Speaker 5: to do away with the bus lanes and now on
Speaker 5: Boston streets.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's but that's a start. But but let's keep going.
Speaker 5: Another thing that I heard is that he got rid
Speaker 5: of a few bumps, those new bumps that they put
Speaker 5: on the streets speed so that they're everywhere. Yeah, speat bumps. However,
Speaker 5: what they instead of putting these speed bumps, what they
Speaker 5: don't take the output and fill up the holes that
Speaker 5: they got, the path holes that they got all over
Speaker 5: the streets is insanity dead.
Speaker 3: No, No, you're right. If this, if the speed don't
Speaker 3: slow you down, the potholes will. Maybe they don't feel
Speaker 3: them for a reason, I don't know. Yeah, but no street.
Speaker 3: The worst.
Speaker 5: I heard about this guy that he wants to get
Speaker 5: rid of the bike lanes.
Speaker 3: No more bike lanes. So I think in fairness, what
Speaker 3: Josh Kraft has said is he doesn't want any more
Speaker 3: bike lanes. I think he should look, you know, his
Speaker 3: campaign's going to evolve. He did. He didn't come across
Speaker 3: as anti bike lanes, but I think that that he's saying, hey,
Speaker 3: we got enough as it is. I think we need
Speaker 3: to pair back. I think they need to get those
Speaker 3: bike lanes out of Senate Street. In West Roxbury. There
Speaker 3: were community meetings though out there. The Mayor's office went
Speaker 3: out and they basically rolled over the residents of West Roxbury.
Speaker 3: It was like, we're gonna do it. Tell us what
Speaker 3: you think, but it doesn't matter what you think, and
Speaker 3: we're gonna do it. And they did it.
Speaker 7: And that's the thing with Michelle Woods. She's also listened
Speaker 7: to any but it. She's always going to do it
Speaker 7: this way and that's it. You take it and you're
Speaker 7: gonna like it. And you know, that's why she's.
Speaker 5: Going to lose.
Speaker 4: He's going to be a one term maya.
Speaker 5: She's gonna I mean, he's probably having panic attacks right
Speaker 5: now because this guy is going to win. Everybody's going
Speaker 5: to back them up. I'm going to back them up myself.
Speaker 3: Well, I think that he's done a lot. You know,
Speaker 3: Josh Kraft has done a lot in the community, has
Speaker 3: been involved in the Boys and Girls clubs. Uh, with
Speaker 3: the the Urban League and you have. He has tremendous
Speaker 3: support in minority communities here in Boston particularly.
Speaker 5: He's been bringing out to a lot of people.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, I've been bringing.
Speaker 7: Out to a lot of people that I actually know
Speaker 7: involved in politics in Boston. In myself that I very
Speaker 7: seldom get involved. I have been involved with a few
Speaker 7: condiments in the past, and they've been winners. And I mean,
Speaker 7: I'm willing to go all out for him.
Speaker 3: All right, Joe, I'm up on my break here. I
Speaker 3: don't mean to cut you short, but I got a
Speaker 3: break for news as always. Thank you for your friendship,
Speaker 3: thank you for your loyalty. And I'll see you at
Speaker 3: that restaurant in West Roxbury. Maybe, yes, some night we
Speaker 3: grab some week weeknight, we'll grab dinner or something.
Speaker 4: Okay they got.
Speaker 3: Not weeknight, weekend night, like I said, Sunday Saturday or
Speaker 3: Sunday night. Okay, we'll talk about it. Thanks Joe, very
Speaker 3: good dad, Thank you, my friend. Don't you soon. Good night.
Speaker 3: Here comes the news at the bottom of the hour.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: Everything. The only line that's open right now is six, one, seven, nine, three, one,
Speaker 3: ten thirty. Uh. And if you're calling from out of town,
Speaker 3: and you have concerns about bike lanes in your community.
Speaker 3: Whatever your point of view is is welcome. Okay. I
Speaker 3: will admit to you I have a very strong point
Speaker 3: of view. I think that they're incompatible with Boston. It's
Speaker 3: as simple as that. They're absolutely incompatible. But they have
Speaker 3: a very effective bike lobby, which I think has influenced
Speaker 3: mayoral elections. And I think that we've reached a point where,
Speaker 3: if the mayor are smart, she's gonna take the buck
Speaker 3: bus lane out on Boylston Street. There were some other
Speaker 3: bike lanes that kind of go. Let's start with Center
Speaker 3: Street in West Roxbury. Back on Nightside, right after this.
Speaker 2: Night Side with Dan Ray on w B Boston's news radio.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you, Dan Watkins. It's got right back
Speaker 3: to the call. It's gonna go to gym in Kansas City.
Speaker 3: Gym next one nights. I go right ahead.
Speaker 8: Yeah, hey, thanks for taking my call.
Speaker 9: How are you?
Speaker 3: You were great? Are you in downtown Kansas City? Can
Speaker 3: you tell us what the bike lane situation is like there?
Speaker 8: I'm not in it, but yeah, I've been down there
Speaker 8: quite a bit. Yeah I can tell you what it's like. Yeah,
Speaker 8: there are bike lanes almost everywhere. It's from what I gather,
Speaker 8: it's not as I look at the map a little bit. Uh,
Speaker 8: Kansas City is not quite as crowded and chopped up
Speaker 8: as Boston is.
Speaker 3: I have been to Kansas City. It's a nice It's
Speaker 3: a much more effectively laid out city. I would agree
Speaker 3: with you.
Speaker 6: Well, in a certain way.
Speaker 8: It kind of is. I don't know how many real
Speaker 8: how many trains you got there? I mean, you got
Speaker 8: the ocean, I mean so, I don't know, but yeah,
Speaker 8: there's bike lanes there. The bike lanes quite a few
Speaker 8: of them.
Speaker 3: Do people like them or.
Speaker 8: I don't know. I don't know. I haven't done much
Speaker 8: bicycling here in Kansas City.
Speaker 3: But I have when I'm sure you probably listen and
Speaker 3: talk radio in Kansas City. Is in an issue out there?
Speaker 3: Are people happy with them?
Speaker 8: I don't know. I haven't done much bicycling in Kansas City.
Speaker 3: Like I said, I'm not saying you've got to do
Speaker 3: bicycling to understand. I'm just wondering if it's an issue.
Speaker 3: Is are there stories in the newspapers there are people
Speaker 3: just going along with the arrival of bike lane. That's
Speaker 3: what I'm asking you.
Speaker 8: No, I don't hear too much talk about it on
Speaker 8: talk radio or anything like that with them. I honestly
Speaker 8: don't like I said. I mean, I've you know, the
Speaker 8: thing that I think you and I are on the
Speaker 8: same page about bike lanes, and that I think they
Speaker 8: kind of slow bicycling down. I don't like having to
Speaker 8: stay in the bike lanes. I don't like having to
Speaker 8: swerve in and out of them when there's cars parked
Speaker 8: in them. And I just my opinion I as a bicyclist,
Speaker 8: I don't like them. I like being able to ride
Speaker 8: on the road where I need to ride and to be,
Speaker 8: you know, be able to cross over to you know,
Speaker 8: for those Yeah. So, I but my question what I'm
Speaker 8: and this is just a kind of curiosity to get
Speaker 8: a better feel for what's going on. There are people
Speaker 8: in some jurisdictions there were required to ride in the
Speaker 8: If there's a bike lane, you're required to stay in
Speaker 8: the bike lane, and other places you're allowed to move
Speaker 8: in and out of it. And I'm just wondering. In
Speaker 8: Boston or in the various counties jurisdictions, there are generally speaking,
Speaker 8: our bicyclists required to stay in the lane or are
Speaker 8: they allowed to move in and out of it.
Speaker 3: They kind of move what they Bicyclists in Boston kind
Speaker 3: of do what they want to do. To be honest
Speaker 3: with you, I mean, according there's not a lot of
Speaker 3: enforcement if you're a bicyclist and you blow through a
Speaker 3: red light. I've never seen a bicyclists pulled over from
Speaker 3: blowing through a red light. I've seen cars taken over, uh,
Speaker 3: pulled over if you take a right or or you know,
Speaker 3: a right on red and the red light on red
Speaker 3: sign says no turn on red. I don't see people
Speaker 3: getting pulled over. Yeah, I think that. I think that
Speaker 3: they have significant, significant opportunities here to do what they want.
Speaker 3: They kind of do as they want. Maybe if I
Speaker 3: got poor lines here and so I'm I appreciate your.
Speaker 8: May maybe other maybe other, maybe other callers will be
Speaker 8: all to answer the question definitive p.
Speaker 3: Yep, thank you, you appreciate your calling a great one.
Speaker 3: Let me keep Roland here, going to go to Robert
Speaker 3: and Wellesley. Robert, you were next to night, said a
Speaker 3: little closer to home.
Speaker 9: Hi, Robert, dreaming Dan, I've said sort of a middle,
Speaker 9: middle of the road opinion. I was thought the I
Speaker 9: thought the comments of your previous college were interesting as
Speaker 9: well as yours. I think the and I think that
Speaker 9: comments have been made which support my comment I'd like
Speaker 9: to make is that I think that bicycle lance has
Speaker 9: sort of materialized out of nowhere as an American invention
Speaker 9: to make up for a lack of bike safety education
Speaker 9: for both motorists and the cyclists. You have said that
Speaker 9: you either.
Speaker 3: Way by the way, these Robert, I don't want to
Speaker 3: disagree with you, but I'll tell you they've been in
Speaker 3: Europe for a long time, and all this is people
Speaker 3: adopting the European formula in in Europe, as you know,
Speaker 3: country as smaller the area to get around as close
Speaker 3: as as smaller. Europeans are less reliant on automobiles than
Speaker 3: we are. And you go into any European city, particularly
Speaker 3: cities like Copenhagen and Amsterdam, and there's more more bike
Speaker 3: lanes and more bicycles than there are cars.
Speaker 9: Well, your your remark brings me up today because my
Speaker 9: experience with Europe was much as much older than than
Speaker 9: yours is. It's not much less up today because at
Speaker 9: that time I observed that the motorists and the cyclists
Speaker 9: have been observed to tolerate each other in traffic, and
Speaker 9: that the motorists had to respect the bicycle as a
Speaker 9: legitimate vehicle on the on the road. And I think
Speaker 9: that's sort of sort of missing. So at that the
Speaker 9: time that I might made my observations my limited experience,
Speaker 9: I didn't really observe of any uh, any bike lines.
Speaker 9: That was strictly a matter of you know, of how
Speaker 9: strictly a matter of cyclists being accepted as being part
Speaker 9: of traffic, and there had to be mutual respect of
Speaker 9: on the part of both motorists and and cyclists. And
Speaker 9: I would say that what's one thing that doesn't help
Speaker 9: is that when UH cyclists do not operate according to
Speaker 9: the to the rules of the of the road UH
Speaker 9: and UH you know, observed traffic signals and use the
Speaker 9: standard hand signals that UH that that a motors would
Speaker 9: be expected to have a sense of the bicycle typically
Speaker 9: doesn't have turn signals that would be recognized by a motorists,
Speaker 9: then the standard hand signals should be used. So I
Speaker 9: I would like I would like to give you, I
Speaker 9: would like to give you a night side homework assignment.
Speaker 3: Would you be kind enough someday, at your convenience, to
Speaker 3: take a ride from Wellesley over to West Roxbury and
Speaker 3: drive up Center Street and call me back and tell
Speaker 3: me what you think about the bike lanes on Center Street.
Speaker 6: You know what? What?
Speaker 4: I what, I what?
Speaker 1: I can't what.
Speaker 9: The experience I do have to call upon is cycling
Speaker 9: from Wellesley to Fantastic Beach at Hull for purposes of
Speaker 9: triathlon training. And I was careful to spend as little
Speaker 9: time as possible on busy roads or anything like like
Speaker 9: big highways, So.
Speaker 3: It is not a big highway, Robert, Center Street is
Speaker 3: is a main thoroughfare. Uh, it is a very important
Speaker 3: commercial district. It runs right through the commercial district, and
Speaker 3: the bike lanes are driving the the residents and the
Speaker 3: store owners in Roxbury. Insane, Robert, I got to run
Speaker 3: here because I got packed lines. I'm going to put
Speaker 3: you down to someone who's pretty much in favor. Uh,
Speaker 3: you don't see the say you don't see them as
Speaker 3: much of a problem as I do. But I thank
Speaker 3: you for the call.
Speaker 9: As always, I didn't mean to I didn't mean to
Speaker 9: express that sentiment. I'm just saying that I think.
Speaker 3: I see him as a as a real pain in
Speaker 3: the neck and an inconvenience. They don't pay any sort
Speaker 3: of insurance. They don't pay any sort of excise tax.
Speaker 3: They they they don't have to carry insurance. They they
Speaker 3: they think that. My experience is that a lot of
Speaker 3: the bicyclists think they own the roads. And and it's
Speaker 3: it's it's dangerous. It's a dangerous combination.
Speaker 9: But but I've I agree with you more than you
Speaker 9: think I agree with.
Speaker 3: Your fair enough, Thanks Robert, as always, we'll talk soon, right,
Speaker 3: thank you much. All right, let me get John here
Speaker 3: in Boston. And John, you've been waiting a while. I
Speaker 3: won't the ones you have to wait too long?
Speaker 6: Right ahead, thanks Dan. It's not just bike to the
Speaker 6: motor scooters, let scooters, skateboards and uh, very often we'll
Speaker 6: be taking your right. They'll pass on your right when
Speaker 6: you have a right hand turn signal on and to
Speaker 6: be passing the right as you turn your on the right.
Speaker 6: They don't obey the traffic laws, you know, the squeeze
Speaker 6: the un set of lights and squeezing and flying between
Speaker 6: two cars waiting at a set of lights during traffic.
Speaker 6: And yeah, well I'm concerned about the elderly did I've
Speaker 6: seen scooters whip around corners as an elderly person trying
Speaker 6: to cross to go around the corner twenty twenty five
Speaker 6: miles an hour. I've seen quads doing wheelies down by
Speaker 6: the uh Tea party ship during the summertime. And I've
Speaker 6: talked to fire biders a lot of times. The guys
Speaker 6: on bikes or scooters will be going around firefight as well.
Speaker 6: They're trying to put fires out like it's a joke,
Speaker 6: like gangs of them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's a whole different story. But that's a
Speaker 3: that's a huge problem. And a lot of that stuff
Speaker 3: has been going on in Franklin Park for years, and
Speaker 3: it's been ignored by the Boston Police Department, by the
Speaker 3: leadership of the Boston Police Department, not the the the
Speaker 3: rank and file officers, but it's been political. Even them
Speaker 3: alone don't worry about it. And those are the same
Speaker 3: kids who have gone out and and and and driven
Speaker 3: these little mini scooters on the Southeast Expressway, which is nuts, insanity, insanity.
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely did I've talked to uh this.
Speaker 6: I don't believe the cost because there's four there's short
Speaker 6: four hundred costs. I bring the city councilors and the
Speaker 6: and the mayor of Boston. All you have to simply
Speaker 6: do is drive around one day, Drive around the city,
Speaker 6: Drive over by the heralds, drive just drowned Wilson's Street
Speaker 6: right now. The bike lanes have snow and ice in them.
Speaker 6: Very often. They'll they'll be half on the road and
Speaker 6: half in and out on the sidewalks coming on the
Speaker 6: bike lanes back in the road and they're slippery, they're
Speaker 6: tie is. You know, we'll slide them underneath them and
Speaker 6: it's uh, you know, very offend them. I'm sorry, it's.
Speaker 3: Dangerous for them as well. But again, the leaders, the
Speaker 3: leaders of the bicycle unions and you do have these
Speaker 3: these organizations, they've made it very clear that to the
Speaker 3: politicians in Boston, you mess with us, will mess with
Speaker 3: you there. They're it used to be back in the day.
Speaker 3: You know, fifty years ago, workers' unions had tremendous influence
Speaker 3: in Boston that you know, the IV E W unions
Speaker 3: and the different unions. But it's now the bicycle unions,
Speaker 3: believe it or not, and there's no one paying dues.
Speaker 3: It's just if you're a bicyclist, you do what all
Speaker 3: the bicyclists tell you to do. That's what I'm telling you, right,
Speaker 3: That's what's going on in Boston.
Speaker 6: Well, I would think the insurance comings they would have
Speaker 6: a keen interest because they people must be running into
Speaker 6: these cars, and then insurance company's going to have to
Speaker 6: be very often. I have a bike on my left side,
Speaker 6: a bike on my right, a couple of Scores in
Speaker 6: the front, and and they're driving Dan. They're driving in
Speaker 6: the colleens too. I mean, they're just no, I know, left.
Speaker 5: Leave me.
Speaker 3: I see it.
Speaker 6: John.
Speaker 3: I'm totally with you, and I thank you for your
Speaker 3: support tonight. I got you in before the break. But
Speaker 3: I got a couple of commercials. I got a wild West.
Speaker 3: It is. It's the wild wild West in Boston. Try
Speaker 3: in West Roxbury. Oh that's not Square, But you know
Speaker 3: that was always acceptable in Harvard Square because guess what,
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter at Harvard Square. But we're talking about
Speaker 3: destroying the economic base of Boston. Uh, it's Center Street
Speaker 3: in West Roxbury. That is a great, you know, economic
Speaker 3: engine for West Roxbury and for Boston. Go talk to
Speaker 3: those those store owners. It's driving people away from Center Street.
Speaker 6: To it effects the Taurus as that they can't hear them.
Speaker 6: They just come whipping around the corner, and the Taurus
Speaker 6: and the elderly and very it's just it's it's reckless
Speaker 6: and people just want to go back to the city.
Speaker 3: I got to run around. John, appreciate it so much.
Speaker 3: Talk to you soon. Good night. Coming back on nights
Speaker 3: that I get. Christine and Steve. Got a little bit
Speaker 3: of room for you if you want to give me
Speaker 3: a call. Coming back on Nightside.
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Speaker 3: Back we go, got Christine first, upting Denim and then
Speaker 3: we're gonna go to Steven Boston. Go right ahead, Christine, welcome.
Speaker 10: Hi, how are you Dean.
Speaker 3: I'm okay. You're in debt and you've been on Senate
Speaker 3: Street and West Roxbury lately.
Speaker 10: Oh, yes, because my mom's had the drumming home with Roxbury.
Speaker 10: So it's crazy over there. It's absolutely crazy because me
Speaker 10: and my family, like we'll try to go to Korb
Speaker 10: and you know about the difference tours, and it's crazy.
Speaker 3: Well, you talk to the merchants and and and they're
Speaker 3: hurting over there.
Speaker 10: They are like the color you can't get the poor
Speaker 10: people have a handicapped they can't get into that dead restaurant.
Speaker 10: It's crazy they don't can't.
Speaker 3: Well. I think Mayor Wu has basically made a decision,
Speaker 3: and the decision is that bicyclists will will rule the city.
Speaker 3: And I think it's going to be destructive of Boston.
Speaker 3: I really do. We have a lot of problems in
Speaker 3: Boston and uh bicyclist is not making any easier. And
Speaker 3: I think a lot of people are saying, you know what,
Speaker 3: there's some great restaurants in Debham and UH and Natick
Speaker 3: and Wellesley and the surrounding communities. I don't I don't
Speaker 3: need to go downtown in Boston. I'd like to hear
Speaker 3: from some of the restaurant owners.
Speaker 10: You know what they're doing now with for us, they're
Speaker 10: riding on the sidewalks instead of the street.
Speaker 3: Unbelievable. Christy, thanks so much. I know you waited a
Speaker 3: long time. I got two more. I'm going to try
Speaker 3: to sneak in here.
Speaker 10: They're going to try through the bikelayes and debt them too.
Speaker 10: And now all the way to westwards down the Highway
Speaker 10: and lacross by the Hilton. It's crazy.
Speaker 3: Well, it's an organized effort, and the people in Debnham
Speaker 3: better say no and uh and and fight this thing
Speaker 3: as best they can. But what happens is the politicians.
Speaker 3: The politicians don't listen. They just roll over people. And
Speaker 3: at that point people got to stand up and say
Speaker 3: we've got different politicians. Thanks Christine, thank you much, thy
Speaker 3: good night. Let me go to Steve's in Boston. Steven
Speaker 3: that the night side a little late. Like to get
Speaker 3: you in one more in gored ahead, Steve.
Speaker 1: I did, Thanks for taking my call. Welcome to a
Speaker 1: quick break quick breakdown for you. I have a Toyota
Speaker 1: Highland there probably spent thirty thousand dollars far regular gaspart
Speaker 1: every single week, tires probably one thousand bucks every two years,
Speaker 1: and regular maintenance, wearing tea. Compare that to the price
Speaker 1: of a bike. Why why are these Why are vehicles
Speaker 1: sharing the roads so much with the bikes? I just
Speaker 1: where is the outrage I honestly don't know where is
Speaker 1: the outrage for for all these bikes being allowed to
Speaker 1: what they're doing and on all these bike lanes setting up.
Speaker 1: I just don't I don't get it, Like, why are
Speaker 1: people so nice about it?
Speaker 3: Well? I agree with you, but I think what happens
Speaker 3: is the average motorists like you were me. Uh and
Speaker 3: and I raised this issue on nightside frequently, but that's okay.
Speaker 3: I want to get people, you know, to realize what's
Speaker 3: going on. The bike lobby. There is a political lobby
Speaker 3: of leaders of this group who have gone to the
Speaker 3: politician and basically said, you want our votes, we want
Speaker 3: bike lanes. It's as simple as that, and a lot
Speaker 3: of people think, oh, that's wonderful. There's an animus against
Speaker 3: people who work for living. There's an animus against people
Speaker 3: who have to drive to work for a living. If
Speaker 3: you live in Boston, Steve and you work in framing him,
Speaker 3: you can't bicycle to work every day.
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 1: And when do you have kids that play sports? You
Speaker 1: you're gonna put your two kids on the back of
Speaker 1: a bike and take them to the field, Like what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do?
Speaker 3: Yeah, as well as well as the two hockey bags
Speaker 3: if they happen to play hockey as well.
Speaker 1: Says in my voice. This subject infuriates me.
Speaker 3: I'm so I'm so delighted you called. Please continue to
Speaker 3: call this program. Uh. We try to fight for people
Speaker 3: who who need some support and right now, believe it
Speaker 3: or not, men and women who are who are just
Speaker 3: trying to earn a living uh and support their families
Speaker 3: and pay their taxes. They are being disregarded in places
Speaker 3: like Boston and many big cities. And they stood up
Speaker 3: in this last election, and they better start to stand
Speaker 3: up in elections here in Massachusetts as well.
Speaker 1: Seconds, mister Gavitt Menfrid has it right. They have a
Speaker 1: bus lane six am to nine a m buses only.
Speaker 1: Why is it all day long? Like I get it,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's traffic time six to nine. Open up?
Speaker 1: Why why can't you open it up the rest of
Speaker 1: the day for everybody? Why are in noon times you're
Speaker 1: running errands? Why are you still sitting in one lane?
Speaker 11: And three?
Speaker 3: You got you like I got you all great points, Steven.
Speaker 3: Wish you called earlier. Call call earlier next time and
Speaker 3: we'll give you more time.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, thank you, Budy, appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thank you, appreciate it. Donny and Walpole, Donnie, I give
Speaker 3: you about a minute. You've been very late, so I'm
Speaker 3: not I don't feel you got the microphone. Go ahead, Donnie, I'm.
Speaker 11: Very late, but I like the hockey bag the hockey
Speaker 11: tag story. But you know, I lived from Walpole and
Speaker 11: we're dealing with the same thing. It's like you're trying
Speaker 11: to be respectful.
Speaker 6: And allow them.
Speaker 11: You know, they riot away, you know they rioted away.
Speaker 11: But it's a screen taking advantage of us.
Speaker 3: It's exactly what it is. They It's like it isn't
Speaker 3: they want more and more and more. And look, try
Speaker 3: to drive through some of the roads, some of the
Speaker 3: side streets in Dorchester and Roxbury, you know, places where
Speaker 3: people don't even have a parking space. Ah and and
Speaker 3: and it's bike lanes. It's bike lanes everywhere. But that's
Speaker 3: the power of the bike. That's the power of the
Speaker 3: bike lobby. And the motorists been to get their act together.
Speaker 3: Where's Triple A those companies that that represent motorists, where
Speaker 3: are they? Where's the lobby from the motorists? It doesn't exist.
Speaker 11: That's a good a good point, Dan, And you know
Speaker 11: what I'm gonna look into that.
Speaker 3: Look do me a fan. I'll give you much more time.
Speaker 3: But but we run out of time. We run out
Speaker 3: of time.
Speaker 11: Great great show tonight.
Speaker 3: I really appreciate it. Thank you, my friend. We'll talk soon.
Speaker 3: Thanks calling again any night, good night. All right, we
Speaker 3: are done for now. I want to wish all of
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