That was fun to watch. California is the most friendly skateboard state that I've encountered. In Madison, where bikes rule, skateboarders get shit on. Middle aged liberals don't skateboard. So, skateboarders get shit. In San Diego, skateboards are close to bikes as a mode of transportation, not just doing tricks.
But it's right next to one of the best bike trails in San Diego County. It passes by our neighborhood and connects us with the beach about 5 miles away.
Skateboarding is legal on Madison city sidewalks except in business districts.
Skeeching is illegal on Madison city streets and is impossible in San Diego. Funny, I just checked Urban Dictionary and the verb is not there. It was common Madison teen vernacular in the middle 70's.
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner has emerged unscathed from a minor car crash on a busy Manhattan highway.
Weiner's spokeswoman says the car he was riding in was involved in a chain-reaction crash Saturday morning on the FDR Drive, which runs along the borough's east side.
It wasn't immediately clear where Weiner was headed or if he was on official business.
Skateboard parks are not what I'm talking about. I see more "no skateboarding" signs everywhere in Madison than anywhere else I go. AND I DO TRAVEL, BY CAR, PLANE AND BOAT. This is a fern loving, bike w/ your helmet, brie cheese eating, snobbish, horseshit city.
"Except in business districts" is part of the horseshit. You can't use a skateboard for transportation. Stay in your little box we've put aside for you. Let us bike riders take over the streets. Now, go get snockered..it's Saturday night. And, then come back nasty later tonight or tomorrow morning. And paddle boarding is for sissies.
Madison is not for me. The attitude of superiority is a response to the shit weather. In her defense, I had a couple of the Tri Pepper brews at the Great Dane a couple of weeks ago and it was the finest beer I have ever tasted.
The clouds and grey outside never really go away though, well, not for long at least, so the reinforcement that Madison really is a great place, really, is ever-present amongst the denizens.
If we can just get Inga to move over here and Spinelli to take his big gut grumpy puss and beat it back to Milwaukee, Madison will move up two spots to #6, ahead of Fargo and Frisco.
John Roussos who owns a very good restaurant, New Orleans Take Out, has lost business because his stretch of road has been turned over to bikes, w/ cars being squeezed out. When elitists want bikes, not only cars get squeezed out, along w/ the commerce, but other modes of transportation. In this case, young people who don't buy into the bike culture get shit on. You have not addressed the point of skateboarders not being given the same rights as your ilk. "Let them use skateparks" shows either your avoidance, lack of intelligence, or both.
I've never lived in Milwaukee. However, I have lived in 3 different time zones. I travel extensively. I ran my own business. And, I can see cultures from many perspectives, being a member of no one particular culture or ilk. You're wrong on this, and your inability to even address the issue, and making your inane comments show that. Bringing in the other pariah of this venue is simply more corroboration.
The local paper today has a full profile of Mary Burke, a probable Dem candidate for governor. Her family owns Trek bicycle. Choo choo's and bikes are the modes of transports for elitists, w/ the motto, "Charge ahead to the 19th century!"
"John Roussos who owns a very good restaurant, New Orleans Take Out, has lost business because his stretch of road has been turned over to bikes, w/ cars being squeezed out. "
Squeezed out? I doubt it. How much business has his restaurant lost? I'll bet you have no idea. I'll bet he hasn't lost any business at all. In fact, his business may have increased for all you know.
These are the Rules of the Road in the city of Madison. Looks to me as if cars rule. Elitist cars.
"You have not addressed the point of skateboarders not being given the same rights as your ilk."
Bicycles and skateboarders are both free to operate on sidewalks - with identical restrictions.
There's another letter in today's paper from a business owner on Sherman Ave. Elitists don't care about small businesses, or any business, unless it directly affects them.
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Great documentary. Thanks.
That was fun to watch. California is the most friendly skateboard state that I've encountered. In Madison, where bikes rule, skateboarders get shit on. Middle aged liberals don't skateboard. So, skateboarders get shit. In San Diego, skateboards are close to bikes as a mode of transportation, not just doing tricks.
Oceanside just built a brand new skateboard park scheduled to open next weekend: link
I don't remember voting on this...
But it's right next to one of the best bike trails in San Diego County. It passes by our neighborhood and connects us with the beach about 5 miles away.
"In Madison, where bikes rule, skateboarders get shit on."
There are great skateparks all around Dane County. And plans for Madison's Central Park - scheduled to break ground this year - include a skatepark.
Skateboarding is legal on Madison city sidewalks except in business districts.
Skateboarding is legal on Madison city sidewalks except in business districts.
Skeeching is illegal on Madison city streets and is impossible in San Diego. Funny, I just checked Urban Dictionary and the verb is not there. It was common Madison teen vernacular in the middle 70's.
Did the AP goof?
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner has emerged unscathed from a minor car crash on a busy Manhattan highway.
Weiner's spokeswoman says the car he was riding in was involved in a chain-reaction crash Saturday morning on the FDR Drive, which runs along the borough's east side.
It wasn't immediately clear where Weiner was headed or if he was on official business.
Official business?
Great doc
Good way to work off the beers too.
Skateboard parks are not what I'm talking about. I see more "no skateboarding" signs everywhere in Madison than anywhere else I go. AND I DO TRAVEL, BY CAR, PLANE AND BOAT. This is a fern loving, bike w/ your helmet, brie cheese eating, snobbish, horseshit city.
"Except in business districts" is part of the horseshit. You can't use a skateboard for transportation. Stay in your little box we've put aside for you. Let us bike riders take over the streets. Now, go get snockered..it's Saturday night. And, then come back nasty later tonight or tomorrow morning. And paddle boarding is for sissies.
Madison is not for me. The attitude of superiority is a response to the shit weather. In her defense, I had a couple of the Tri Pepper brews at the Great Dane a couple of weeks ago and it was the finest beer I have ever tasted.
The clouds and grey outside never really go away though, well, not for long at least, so the reinforcement that Madison really is a great place, really, is ever-present amongst the denizens.
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Madison #8 in Healthiest Happiest Cities in America
If we can just get Inga to move over here and Spinelli to take his big gut grumpy puss and beat it back to Milwaukee, Madison will move up two spots to #6, ahead of Fargo and Frisco.
I'm seriously thinking about it for next year, Meade.
John Roussos who owns a very good restaurant, New Orleans Take Out, has lost business because his stretch of road has been turned over to bikes, w/ cars being squeezed out. When elitists want bikes, not only cars get squeezed out, along w/ the commerce, but other modes of transportation. In this case, young people who don't buy into the bike culture get shit on. You have not addressed the point of skateboarders not being given the same rights as your ilk. "Let them use skateparks" shows either your avoidance, lack of intelligence, or both.
I've never lived in Milwaukee. However, I have lived in 3 different time zones. I travel extensively. I ran my own business. And, I can see cultures from many perspectives, being a member of no one particular culture or ilk. You're wrong on this, and your inability to even address the issue, and making your inane comments show that. Bringing in the other pariah of this venue is simply more corroboration.
The local paper today has a full profile of Mary Burke, a probable Dem candidate for governor. Her family owns Trek bicycle. Choo choo's and bikes are the modes of transports for elitists, w/ the motto, "Charge ahead to the 19th century!"
#6 happiest city proves, "Ignorance is bliss."
"John Roussos who owns a very good restaurant, New Orleans Take Out, has lost business because his stretch of road has been turned over to bikes, w/ cars being squeezed out. "
Squeezed out? I doubt it. How much business has his restaurant lost? I'll bet you have no idea. I'll bet he hasn't lost any business at all. In fact, his business may have increased for all you know.
These are the Rules of the Road in the city of Madison. Looks to me as if cars rule. Elitist cars.
"You have not addressed the point of skateboarders not being given the same rights as your ilk."
Bicycles and skateboarders are both free to operate on sidewalks - with identical restrictions.
John Roussos had a quote in the Sunday paper saying he lost business. Read much?
And, WTF do you know about business?
Enough to know to move my business location if necessary.
What do you know about business, Nick? Besides what you read in the Sunday paper, I mean.
BTW. do you have a link to that article you spoke of? I wonder how many reastaurants increased business since Sherman Ave. was made safer to bike.
There's another letter in today's paper from a business owner on Sherman Ave. Elitists don't care about small businesses, or any business, unless it directly affects them.
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