How ‘trendy’ are you?
Trends are a funny thing.
Not funny in the ‘imalaffinsohardipeeinmepants’ kinda way but funny in the way they make me say hrm…
No. Trends don’t cause me to say “Halifax Regional Municipality” but more like the sound I make when I open my tax bill and wonder where the hell all of that money is going.
HRM…
One place the money goes is into the construction of bike lanes
Dear reader, given how much I’ve written here about riding bikes it would be easy for you to assume that I’m a fan of bike lanes.
That assumption would be wrong.
And dear reader, I know what you’re thinking, so much so I can almost hear your puzzled HRM? cascading through the interwebs of time and social Medea.
Bike lanes are not in and of themselves a trend but part of one.
And in my mind?
They have nothing to do with saving the polar bars from the penguins.
In reality, they’re part of a longer slower trend.
Which is remarkable insofar as they function to slow everyone down - including cycliists.
But let’s let t…
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