Fred's Bike: North Portland Greenway sacrifices for the kids

Friday, February 22, 2013

North Portland Greenway sacrifices for the kids

A classic case of wanting your cake and eating too. Typical! Do it for the kids you heartless SOB's. The comments are the best part of the story.

Kids Playground

PORTLAND -- The 12-story sequoia tree that has become the center of a controversy over a city trail project will be "re-purposed" and turned into a nature playground after it is cut down, according to Mark Ross with Portland Parks & Recreation.
The City of Portland plans to cut down the giant sequoia in Pier Park, in order to make way for a pedestrian and bicycle greenway.

Possible Solution

Protesters crossed over caution tape and their presence halted the chopping down of the sequoia on Thursday, along with other, less iconic trees close by. But the project will still move forward, Ross said, and the tree will come down. Then, it will be used to build PP&R’s first Nature Play area at Westmoreland Park.
"It will help kids connect with nature, and provide a sustainable, natural playground in the first such endeavor across our system," Ross said, in a post on PP&R's Facebook page. "We will mitigate the loss of the sequoia by planting seven giant sequoias in neighboring Chimney Park, where there are much fewer trees."

Moots bikes from Steamboat Springs has made this trail maintenance bike that can even carry a small chain saw strapped on its back. (Kathryn Scott Osler, The Denver Post)

WARNING: The opinions expressed in theses comments do not necessarily reflect the views of (the network or Fred's Bike) except "it was wonderful to see Lance go down"

Some of the best comments:

"I hate cyclists. I live in Austin and it was wonderful to see Lance go down. Every cyclist here idolized him it seems. They all dress like him and think it's great to clog up our roads while ignoring our traffic laws. Screw these guys."
REPLY: "Well YEE HA! yall Texican buckarinos! "

"Those darn bikes are SO DIFFICULT to navigate and control around trees! They should just ban bikes, instead. I can't wait to this issue skewered on Portlandia."

"This could get real ugly, real fast. You could see slapping, you could see scratching.........."

"Since they're so interested in "health", why not just get off their asses and WALK the bike around the tree? "

"LOL. Killing the tree will help children "connect with nature!" Maybe Portland should hire a logging company to cut down all the trees so the kids feel even more connected! Kim Upham will love this."

"I propose a bike path through city hall. We must chop it down."

"This may take more than one cup of Chamomille Tea to resolve."

"It's kind of ironic that they want to chop down a tree to build a nature playground."

" Hayak's Dilemma: when intellectuals succeed in overthrowing Liberty the "greater good" is open to debate. Once the default is no longer Liberty it is unclear which utopian scheme has precedence. Inevitably paralysis and chaos give rise to a despotism."
REPLY:          "what the hell or you talking about?"

"New war brewing: Tree Huggers vs. Cycling hipsters.
Red Vs. Red.
I'm going to open a bag of popcorn and watch the fireworks!"

"The solution is obvious...leave the tree in the path and let the leftist loons run into it."
REPLY:           "They're afraid they may have to turn to the right to go around it."

"It's bushes fault."
REPLY:    "It is a bushy tree?"

"Has anyone thought to ask the tree how it feels about this? A good story for Portlandia to take on."

"Leave the tree alone! Ride around the tree idiots!"

"This is right out of a Hitchhikers Guide to the galaxy" the Vogons have returned and the bypass must go through. No we're bureaucrats, rather then amend the design to leave the tree which is +/- a thousand years old, cut it down to make a bike path? I love liberals, the single most destructive[green agenda types] ever to breath oxygen[which is what trees produce]. I'm glad you people support abortion fewer of you as time goes" forward". Living proof the idiots will inherit a dead world."

Rest of the Story:
City: Chopped down sequoia will become nature playground | kgw.com Portland

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Bike Quotes

As I get older the tendency to stick my foot up someone's ass is starting to subside. - Fred on Pump Track Pricks

The 29 inch chingaderra rolls best downhill! ~ Fred

I thought of that while riding my bicycle.

~ Albert Einstein on the Theory of Relativity

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving ~ Albert Einstein

If constellations had been named in the 20th century, I suppose we would see bicycles. ~ Prof. Carl Sagan

It never gets easier, you just go faster. ~ Greg LeMond.

~ Charles M. Schulz

The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind. ~ William Saroyan Nobel prize winner

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. ~ Ernest Hemingway

Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I have hope for the human race. ~ H.G. Wells

Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia. ~ H.G. Wells

When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking. ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Get a bicycle. You will certainly not regret it, if you live. ~ Mark Twain Taming the Bicycle. 1884

PEDAL. Pray Every Day And Listen. ~ Rev. Johannes Myors, The pedaling preacher

The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine. ~John Howard

A bicycle does get you there and more.... And there is always the thin edge of danger to keep you alert and comfortably apprehensive. Dogs become dogs again and snap at your raincoat; potholes become personal. And getting there is all the fun. ~Bill Emerson

Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm. ~Jacquie Phelan

Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own. ~Louis J. Helle

The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple. The slower you go the more likely it is you'll crash. ~Julie Furtado

If you worried about falling off the bike, you’d never get on. ~ Lance Armstrong

Never use your face as a brake pad. ~ Jake Watson

Refrain from throwing your bicycle in public. It shows poor upbringing. ~ Jacquie Phelan

When I was sick, I didn't want to die.
When I race, I don't want to lose.
Dying and losing, it's the same thing. ~ Lance Armstrong

"It is no longer a beast of steel,
no it is a friend it is a faithful
and powerful ally against one's worst
enemies. It is stronger than anxiety,
stronger than sadness. It has all the
power of hope." ~  Maurice Leblanc