Mayoral Candidates - Who Is Bike Savvy? Thoughts?

When asking around, I heard these three candidates are some potential good bike-friendly options:

Mendoza

Lightfoot

Eniya

Let's use this thread to discuss, bring in articles, quotations, and proof of bike-savviness. Cool?

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Permalink Reply by Yasmeen on March 1, 2019 at 7:36am

I enjoyed my tangent. :-) It's not often DC comes up in a thread.

Permalink Reply by Jeremy on March 8, 2019 at 1:39am

https://www.nbcchicago.com/blogs/ward-room/watch-lightfoot-preckwin...

There was a mayoral debate on NBC yesterday.  The two candidates were asked about biking.  The entire debate is broken into segments on the website.  The part about biking is at the 6:03 mark of part 9.

Permalink Reply by TonyP on March 8, 2019 at 2:39am

Wear a helmet and follow traffic laws. If that was all that was covered in the debate it sure doesn't point towards any cycling infrastructure improvements or better treatment towards cyclists.

Not a big enough voters block, I guess.

Permalink Reply by Mark on March 8, 2019 at 10:39am

Not sure what the point of asking that question was when it is prefaced with "bikes don't stop at stop signs..." and nothing about cars disregarding traffic rules.

Permalink Reply by curt(is) locke on March 14, 2019 at 7:17am

Toni is most assuredly a walker. I have personally spied her on countless occasions hiking around the neighborhood on foot. Her ex-husband was a serious runner.

Permalink Reply by V W on March 8, 2019 at 5:01pm

Thanks for posting Jeremy and giving us the timestamp.

Not that Toni's answer was good by any stretch of the imagination but I call BS on Lori claiming she is a biker who stops at every stop sign. You're either lying and you're not a biker or you're lying and you are a biker and you do the Idaho stop like all of us.

Permalink Reply by Skip Montanaro 0mi on March 8, 2019 at 11:19pm

Or you're a cager and do the Idaho stop like the rest of the cagers. :)

Permalink Reply by curt(is) locke on March 14, 2019 at 4:24am

I call bullsh*t on the expression "I call bullsh*t." Please, folks, give it a rest. 

Furthermore, you don't KNOW this (either you're lying OR you're lying!) -- you are simply speculating without any hard evidence or first hand knowledge. That's BS.

Permalink Reply by curt(is) locke on March 14, 2019 at 7:14am

I mean, I guess it could be Lori. Or maybe Bigfoot. Pretty blurry ass image, for what it's worth.

Permalink Reply by V W on March 18, 2019 at 6:25am

Thanks for policing how I'm supposed to express myself and the level of hard evidence you want me to have to make a claim. I will continue to express myself the way I do. I didnt claim to have hard evidence, I also think its intellectually lazy to act like we are completely incapable of making reasonable deductions about someone based on their own words.

Permalink Reply by curt(is) locke on March 18, 2019 at 6:46am

Intellectually lazy -- are you being ironic?

As for policing -- you read triggered and defensive. How old are you? (to put it bluntly.) Clearly no one is stopping you or can stop you from freely speaking your mind (well, within limits in a forum such as this, as there is a moderator) -- just as I will feel free to call you on your BS. See, it works that way. You might thicken your skin if you're going to go around "calling BS", by the way.

Permalink Reply by V W on March 18, 2019 at 7:07am

No I'm not being ironic. If someone says they are a biker that stops at every stop sign, I think its intellectual lazy to say we cant reasonably make any judgment as to whether it's more likely or less likely that they are telling the truth. Maybe she rides the occasional bike trail, but I dont think that makes her a biker in a way that informs her about the concerns of our biking community.

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