Seems like you were riding the wrong kind of bike for Hillyard my man. Next time hitch a tour with one of the local bikers, maybe they´ll even let you ride "bitch"*? As a guy who grew up in (and out of) Hillyard I´m excited to read your profile.
It´s pretty weak to put down an entire neighborhood because you had some bad luck on a major thoroughfare that sees thousands upon thousands of vehicles every day. Don´t you think it´s a little more likely that some industrial truck bounced that out onto the road than we evil Hillyardites planted it here for you to run over.
If only from a literary stance, it would have been far superior to marvel at the incredibly odd and unlikely occurrence of your accident then to show what a judgmental, prejudicial jerk you are by blaming it on the neighborhood. In case you missed the memo, it stopped being cool to pick on Hillyard a couple of years ago.
I guess I have to state the obvious and say "Maybe next time you should watch what you´re riding over." Thanks to your excellent photography skills we can clearly see that the debris is a far darker color than the road in the background, so it should not have been difficult to see. I guess if you wanted to write an article about how dangerous it would be for blind people to ride their bicycles through Hillyard, then that´s probably a fairly piece. Jul 22, 2010 |Reply to this comment
The Haven & Market one-ways are also an industrial truck route through the City and you might want to support the North Freeway Route full construction so that the industrial debris you found will not be left through the neigborhood arterial streets anymore. I would say the truck traffic also would be a little unnerving to the average bicycle rider and there are better north/south bike route and as Regal St. is recommended. It is going to take a few more years to complete the freeway work through Hillyard and their are proposed overpasses that will also incorporate bikes as well as a trail all along the west side the freeway corridor that will connect to the Centennial Trail and right off Green St to the east of the Historic Hillyard Business District. Be safe! Jul 22, 2010 |Reply to this comment
MMM—nasty puncture! Hard to imagine how you could have caught that piece of “industrial shrapnel” at just the right angle so that it vectored not only through your bike’s tire, but straight on into your wheel, and out the other side.
I got it!
It was an Improvised Ejection Device (IED) set up by those nasty little working-class guerillas up in Hillyard, on whose dastardly-renovated streets—without a bike lane--you were riding when you overlooked that monster piece of scrap metal. Of course, it’s all their fault!
I emphatically agree: withholding any favorable comment about the newly-renovated streets and improved neighborhoods of Spokane’s Great Northeast is just the right response! It’s a fine and noble tradition you uphold: find an irrelevant gripe, then smear an entire subsection of the City to show your personal superiority!
Snotty Journalism at its finest, and just when we were thinking the Spokesman didn’t have any competition in this arena.
Better luck next time?
*Not insinuating anything...
Jul 22, 2010 | Reply to this comment
If only from a literary stance, it would have been far superior to marvel at the incredibly odd and unlikely occurrence of your accident then to show what a judgmental, prejudicial jerk you are by blaming it on the neighborhood. In case you missed the memo, it stopped being cool to pick on Hillyard a couple of years ago.
Jul 22, 2010 | Reply to this comment
I got it!
It was an Improvised Ejection Device (IED) set up by those nasty little working-class guerillas up in Hillyard, on whose dastardly-renovated streets—without a bike lane--you were riding when you overlooked that monster piece of scrap metal. Of course, it’s all their fault!
I emphatically agree: withholding any favorable comment about the newly-renovated streets and improved neighborhoods of Spokane’s Great Northeast is just the right response! It’s a fine and noble tradition you uphold: find an irrelevant gripe, then smear an entire subsection of the City to show your personal superiority!
Snotty Journalism at its finest, and just when we were thinking the Spokesman didn’t have any competition in this arena.
Jul 22, 2010 | Reply to this comment