Should've known better

It's like the Mayor says in Ghostbusters 2:

Mayor Lenny: Ghostbusters 2

"You want me to get on TV and tell 14 million people to be nice? Being miserable and treating other people poorly is every New Yorkers God-given right!"

There's a lot of hot air flying back and forth about the recently (I say recently, but it's been there a while) opened Prospect Park Bike Lane.  The inverse of global warming proponents, the opposition takes their strongest stance during winter: "Nobody rides on this lane!  Why is it open?"  Well, it is winter.

The city is on the side of the cyclists (no surprise there) and is firmly on the offensive.  Deputy Mayor Howard Wolfson has been put in charge and defended his charge well:

"They serve a simple purpose -- to help provide all New Yorkers with more diverse transportation choices," Wolfson wrote. "Some New Yorkers will always drive, or take a cab. Others will rely on public transportation. Many will walk. And a greater number -- a 50% increase in the last four years -- will ride bicycles to work and to recreate."

 The bah-humbugs of bike lanes say the numbers are exaggerated. The numbers say, however, that more than 50 percent of New Yorkers favor bike lanes.  Welcome to America.  Majority rules.

I should have known better than to think that bike lanes went down without a fight.  What the opposition doesn't realize is that the louder they raise their voice, the higher the chance they bring down the wrath of a group like Critical Mass to crush their case.  And nobody wants that to happen.