New York City Erases Bike Lanes to Appease Hasidic Men Who Object to Seeing Women in Bike Shorts

There is an interesting controversy in Brooklyn after the city yielded to the Hasidic community in sandblasting off bike lanes on roads. Hasidic leaders complained that they are having trouble obeying their religious law forbidding them from staring at members of the opposite sex with women biking around in shorts. Bicycle advocates have been trying to repaint the lanes.

The Hasidic community has long viewed this enclave as their special area, even though other families and artists have moved in recently. That has caused trouble with the Shomrim Patrol, a Hasidic neighborhood watch group. The Shomrim recently apprehended two cycling advocates who were repainting the lane and called the police. No charges were filed but the bikers were prevented from repainting the lane.

I find it incredible that the city would yield to such demands by a religious group to erase bike lanes. A Department of Transportation spokesman said: “We will continue to work with any community on ways we can make changes to our streets without compromising safety.” However, this is a religious-based objection to women who are not covered. Yet, reports indicate that Mayor Bloomberg wanted to appease the Hasidic community before his recently close election.

Hasidic leaders say that the cyclists endanger families and children. However, this is not the view of the city in creating these lanes and they are found in every major city. The real objection appears to be their lifestyle and the rigid religious beliefs of this sect. It is a clearly improper decision that uses city resources to enforce values of a single religious group.

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317 thoughts on “New York City Erases Bike Lanes to Appease Hasidic Men Who Object to Seeing Women in Bike Shorts”

  1. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYqHjGRrX98&hl=en_US&fs=1&]

    I’m with Frank. Walk a mile for a Camel? I’d walk through ten miles of gamma rays to hold open the door for Rachel Weisz. But the strange thing about it is that it has nothing to do with her being Jewish. It doesn’t even have to do with her being a very talented actress.

    On a purely animal level, she’s just sexy as all get out. She GETS my attention. But that’s not why I like her. I’ve seen interviews and she seems like a very (very) smart woman and a decent human being.

    I refuse to call her Mrs. Aronofsky [lucky bastard, but I digress]). But names aside there is really only one important thing about that description of the lovely Ms. Wiesz that makes me find her interesting: she’s a nice lady – a decent human being from what I can tell.

    A person’s religion, skin color, gender and sexual orientation are just about the least interesting thing about them.

    Are they good people and why? If they are evil, why? Those are the interesting questions. And the only relevant ones too.

    “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Looks like you bigots have made your choice. And while revolting, it is interesting.

    Like a petrie dish full of Ebola is interesting.

    Enjoy being the bad guys.

  2. Ask a Jew where his/her allegiance is in the VERY hypothetical case that your country goes to war against Israhell.

  3. MrB,

    Do you also think that Jews can fly, transform into the shape of a wolf, mist, or bat, doesn’t appear in mirrors, and can be stopped by a communion wafer?

    Everyone else,

    At this point just assume my response to MrB is one of the following: Laughter, some comment pointing out just how absurd his beliefs are, not bothering to read it, picturing him sitting up late at night, cold, lonely, and unable to sleep because the tree outside his window casts a shadow that looks like a star of David, or some combination of those.

  4. I love both Jews and what they do.

    I wish the U.S. had more of them. I welcome Palestinians here too. Since us white x-european “Americans” blatantly stole this land from others, the least we could do is be welcoming.

    Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
    With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
    Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
    A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
    Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
    Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
    Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
    The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
    “Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!” cries she
    With silent lips. “Give me your tired, your poor,
    Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
    The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
    Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
    I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

  5. Spindell —

    You are truly laughable. I hate the Jew for what the Jew DOES, not what the Jew IS. It is a distinction you, as a Jew, are incapable of making. Blah blah blah you pendantic ass.
    You were kicked out of England after wearing out your welcome, as usual. Little something about ritually murdering and drinking the blood of the nephew of a local aristocrat, if I recall. Like I said, “lousy neighbors.”

  6. Bibi read Zetatalk.com to learn that Service-to-Self People will be removed from reincarnating on Earth after the coming Pole Shift which is the return of Noah’s flood. But I ask you doesn’t the Jewish use of genocide as begun in Genesis prove why People are Anti-Semitic? Not to mention Joseph coming to own all the People’s property including the People for the Pharaoh after the famine which is what the banks’ (who you claim are controlled by the Jews) foreclosures are doing. Let’s not forget the Jewish Economic Warfare v Germany in 1933 before WWII or the 20 million genocided in Russia by the Jewish Trotskyites before WWII.

    Did you read A Real Case Against the Jews by Marcus Eli Ravage? I am not denying that Jews are as dangerous as you assert. I am agreeing with you and that is where Anti-Semitism comes from: Jewish genocide, war, and economic warfare against the host countries for thousands of years.

  7. Astrea, even if all the goyem understand what will you do? Mossad and the shin bet will release race specific bio weapons once thd moment is right. Israel no longer needs nuclear weapons as she has more powerful systems than you can imagine. Every leader of Israel has openly spoken of the extermination of the palestinian nomads, except for Rabin, but you must understand hebrew! Why does the media not show outrage? Because it is our tool used to manufacture the reality!

  8. The solution to this problem is simple: ban all religions!

    But what would the religiously deranged think about then? Sorry, my question is silly.

    The religiously deranged don’t think!

  9. To understand Bibi above, everybody should read A Real Case Against the Jews by Marcus Eli Ravage on the internet and return to our Pagan ways.

  10. As for seeing sexy legs or “boobies”, God gave boobies to babies to suck on for survival so how does seeing them harm children OR adult men and everybody came into this world through a vagina (except Cesarean) after sex with a penis, even in vitro.

    I’d rather have children and men view sex with love than violence or sex with violence. If TV didn’t influence behavior, business wouldn’t spend money on advertising. For example, murder should be news, not entertainment.

    If Judaism, Islam, and Christianity didn’t hate women, we would have more Peace on Earth. Worship the Mother Goddess who gave birth to the Universe before God usurped Her throne and demonized Her.

  11. MrBinary,

    So you don’t consider:

    “Don’t give two shits what the insane jews demand.”

    cursing and insulting?

    Interesting.

    Nothing about the tone of your first post was an effort to engage in dialog. You began with a rant, any claims to the countrary are simple falsehoods (either intentional or because of a misunderstanding of what the words “congenial dialog” mean).

  12. you all can say what you like, but the fact remains that we control hollywood, the banks, we control obama, we control everything. We no longer have to hide our atrocities, as we are the chosen. the dome of the rock will soon fall, we will crush the skulls of the palestinian nomad children under our boots! you can protest all you want, but the destiny of Israel is set in stone!

  13. You guys are proving my point by leaps and bounds.

    Buddah your grade 8 level jesus rant, I couldn’t get past more than a few sentances, it was that absurd.

    What was so hard to understand when I stated several times,

    “I don’t hate anyone, any group, or any ethnicity solely because of that…I hate groups and people that hide behind religion while commiting acts of hatred around the world…in the name of whatever particular religion.”

    You and your ilk, lack the reasoning to hold a conversation without hurling insults and cries of “anti semite!” to anyone who even remotely casts jews in a pale light. I’m not addressing anyone in particular here, simply generalizing what I see heppening.

    I entered the convo with not insults or cursing like others so blatantly did. I tried to offer my views in a debate where I believe the underlaying issues go far beyond the simple act of removing bike lanes. I don’t think the real issue is the bike lanes, and that’s all I was trying to say. You for your part have decided to ignore all of that…and instead lash out beyond the issue and label me nearly everything you could think of, while ignoring the gist of what I was trying to say.

    I could have acted like many others here, jew and non jew alike, and instead of attempting to present any sort of congenial dialog, hurl childish remarks. This thread is full of them if you have been paying attention.

    Keep ignoring the reasons for the current growing hatred toward jews at your own leisure…I’m wrong, and everyone else that had a problem with this story is wrong as well as you’ve made quite clear. So be it. That’s a sure fire way of effecting any sort of positive change. It’s why the world is so messed up today.

    Merry Christmas!

  14. Who is a bigot?

    Well that’d be self-evident.

    I really hope you are following your “thoughts” to their logical conclusion and hate Jesus too, Mr. 0.

    He was a one of those filthy Jews after all.

    So.

    How does it feel to be the puppet of a Jew who has been dead 2000 years? You not only work for a Jew, genius, you work for a zombie Jew. Maybe you should call George Romero. He has lots of tips about doing business with zombies. Jew zombies? I can’t speak to that specifically but I’ve heard Romero doesn’t care a bit about his zombie’s religious affiliations as long as the stagger to their stage mark and can groan and bleed on cue. Given there are so many Jews in the arts, I’m sure they have many members in good standing in the Zombie Actor’s Guild too.

    Hey. Don’t blame me. It’s your illogic at issue. Unless your contention is Jesus was a self-loathing Jew. Which is about as credible as you saying he likes you better than other people. Jesus loved everyone. Jews. Gentiles. Pagans. Agnostics. Even the dimwitted and ignorant.

    I really hope you don’t see the fundamental irony of your anti-Semitism that it is “being done” in the name of a Jew you profess to worship (despite the fact He didn’t want to be worshipped).

    Why do I hope you don’t see it?

    Because I want to be there if you meet Jesus.

    It’s not going to be like you anticipate. He’s going to want to know why you promoted hatred and division in His name and “because Jerry Falwell told me you said so Lord” isn’t going to cut it. Because Jesus didn’t tell you to act like that. He told you to show love and compassion to one another, not just those you think are special because they belong to “the master race”. Jesus didn’t mention a need for secret decoder rings. All were welcome.

    I really want to see how long you stammer before he turns you into a frog.

    Or a pillar of salt.

    I’m sure he’ll turn you back. Eventually. He is all about mercy and kindness. But He is also about teaching others to be as Him.

    And you’re failing the Be Like Jesus Contest in leaps and bounds.

    I’m thinking it’ll be the corner and the dunce hat for you, sport, when Jesus grades your papers.

    Enjoy.

  15. non facts?

    Pull your head out of your ass.

    I politely offer some reasons for what you as a jew are seeing towards your people, and you show your true colours by not only falsely labeling me hateful, but imply stupidity and so on and so forth because I refuse to subscribe to your whitewashed ideals of your people. Should I have included a long tirade laced with obscenities so I fit your notion of who I am?

    If you knew, you might be surprised.

    Your a classic case jew who believes your people can do no wrong, and defends their actions despite what reality shows. And as soon as anyone steps up and presents any opinions counter to your own, or offers possible reasons for the hatred you see, you froth at your keyboard, label me anti semite, and refuse to look at anything besides your own point of view.

    I don’t hate anyone, any group, or any ethnicity solely because of that…I hate groups and people that hide behind religion while commiting acts of hatred around the world…in the name of whatever particular religion.

    Do you even know what your jewish mouthpiece considers anti semite?

    If you can stomach the truth…have a read.

    http://rense.com/general88/awash.htm

    Look it up…it pretty much encompasses anyone who remotely criticizes israel, or jews, their govt, their people, their military, their actions…pretty much anything or any statement against israel. Well then…that encompases most of the world.

    Who is anti semite?

    Pretty much anyone too afraid to stand up and open their mouth and call a duck a duck.

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