Big Deficit-> ? Bike Lanes ?

For those of us who live in San Diego we can see an example of incompetence just about every day when we see nothing. How can this be? How can incompetence be visualized by seeing nothing? In San Diego the answer is simple as we now have a myriad of bike lanes that no one is using. To be honest rarely I do actually see a bicyclist in one of these bike lanes. In a city of 1.388 million people, over the course of the last year I have seen perhaps ten bicyclists using these bike lanes. Because I do not travel extensively around all parts of the city, let’s arbitrarily, and very generously, multiply the number of bike lane users that I have actually seen by one thousand (1000 X 10 = 10,000). In a city of 1,388,000 it comes out to be that these bike lanes are servicing 0.3% of San Diego’s population.
At a cost of tens of millions of dollars for these 0.3%, I say either wtf or WTF! I say this in part because San Diego now faces an annual budget deficit of roughly $300 million.
Parenthetically, the reason for all of these unused bike lanes has something to do with “climate change.” Try to explain that to the many restaurants along 30th street that I and many other senior citizens can no longer frequent because the street parking has been eliminated to accommodate the largesse of about 0.3% of the city’s population.
It would seem to me that the parking meter fees on 30th (no longer being generated because most of the parking meter spaces have even eliminated by the bike lanes) in addition to the sales taxes that would be generated if us seniors could again eat at these restaurants on 30th would be a welcome addition to the city coffers. Granted the elimination of the bike lanes on 30th would not solve San Diego’s budgetary crises, but the street parking on 30th is only a microcosm of a citywide problem. Luckily our politicians and their bike lanes are taking a giant leap for mankind in its fight against climate change … NOT!
12/24/24