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And now, the fight against “DEI bike lanes”
I went to the poll and while I saw there is general, generic support for bike lanes, what I did not see was this question: “Do you want a bike lane installed on your block?”
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Surprise! Inquirer opinion writer misses the point
More critical thinking would have resulted in a conclusion that stopping had nothing to do with Friedes’ death, which the bicycle vampires have merchandised into getting their ideas through a complacent and intellectually inert Council.
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FOPS wins another battle to restore city promise
Driven by God-knows-what — certainly not facts, City Council, jockeyed by Council President Kenyatta Johnson, went madly dashing after a solution to a problem that did not exist.
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Billy Penn gets a D for biased reporting
You had to read to the 19th paragraph to find a single line about opposition to the barriers, from the Friends of Pine and Spruce.
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On democracy and bike lanes
Barriers would not have protected Dr. Friedes as she was killed by a drunk driver doing almost 60 m.p.h.
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FOPS gets a late Xmas gift from Philly court
A few days after Christmas, a late-arriving gift from Santa Claus was received by the Friends of Pine and Spruce nonpartisan, nonprofit citizens’ advocacy group. Today it is announcing to its members that the Common Pleas Court on the last day of the year denied the city’s motion
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Friends of Pine and Spruce pull city back into court
Bochetto describes what happened as "legislation by ambush” that “is not only morally despicable, but illegal as well.”
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Some good news for FOPS in the bicycle wars
Year after year, over the last 15 years, the percentage of Philadelphians commuting by bike has hovered around 2%, irrespective of the growing number of bike lanes.
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Injunction stops Pine & Spruce loading zones
FOPS President Lloyd Brotman said the group was energized by “a runaway city bureaucracy hell bent on installing concrete barriers along the full length of bike lanes.”
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Fighting City Hall takes money, and will
FOPS has the will to fight the fight for everyone who feels abused by the city’s betrayal.
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FOPS bops city with lawsuit to curb loading-zone plan
“We’ve done everything possible to avoid this action – petitions, testimony, meetings, outreach – to reason with officials,” said Brotman.
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The bike fight moves to an issue of the budget
The war has moved from the broad expanse of the ocean to the small inlets along the shore. The battle is over to what extent the bicycle cult can dictate free movement to the lives of everyone else. Hearings on a bill to ban even momentary stopping in bike lanes