Locksmith-Pitiful t1_jdc7y6c wrote on March 23, 2023 at 11:02 AM

Has Smiley done anything yet aside from post pictures of himself at celebrations on social media and threaten to rip up our bikes lanes...?

Man seems full of false promises so far.

ilostthegamee t1_jdcb5cb wrote on March 23, 2023 at 11:36 AM

The alternative would be to crack down and arrest those breaking laws…little known fact:the drivers of these vehicles are often armed with illegal firearms. I’ve had one pulled on me by them multiple times. Scumbags, lock em up

Proof-Variation7005 t1_jdd1t0t wrote on March 23, 2023 at 3:03 PM

Specifically about ATVs? His campaign policy was a pretty simple continuation / expansion of what the city was already doing and continuing to accept help from the state police.

There's no such thing as a municipal problem this widespread that is going to be solved in a day.

Locksmith-Pitiful t1_jdd4ai8 wrote on March 23, 2023 at 3:20 PM

One of the larger ATV gangs has a public Facebook and Instagram group. They've had it up for years. You're telling me, even though they post the exact fucking date and sometimes the route, the police can't solve this?

Proof-Variation7005 t1_jdd6a5q wrote on March 23, 2023 at 3:33 PM

The police seize and destroy a few hundred dirt bikes and ATVs every single year, save for the one hilarious time that a bunch of seized vehicles got stolen out of the city's storage before they could crush them.

It's obviosuly still a problem but if you have the impression that nothing's being done at all, I might suggest paying the slightest bit of attention.

Trying to shamelessly shit on the current mayor over this when we're not even a week into Spring just because you're still all worked up over a bike lane answer you've willfully misinterpreted is a weird look.

Locksmith-Pitiful t1_jddgxzh wrote on March 23, 2023 at 4:40 PM

>It's obviosuly still a problem but if you have the impression that nothing's being done at all, I might suggest paying the slightest bit of attention.

Crushing a few ATVs is doing... "something." I also guess I'm an avid book reader since I read a book a few years ago.

>Trying to shamelessly shit on the current mayor over this when we're not even a week into Spring just because you're still all worked up over a bike lane answer you've willfully misinterpreted is a weird look.

A week into spring and his only proposal so far is to start the destruction of progress. He had a boner for the police and so far, his social media is just flexing with them in a heightened state of police fear and corruption, nothing about policy.

And misinterpreting? I'm just able to read between the lines. Everyone with a brain knows he's in bed with real estate and business fucks in Providence and what do ya know, those fucks despise walking and biking infrastructure because "muh parkin'."

Weird for you to defend someone who doesn't give a flying fuck about this city.

Proof-Variation7005 t1_jddlyrp wrote on March 23, 2023 at 5:12 PM

>Crushing a few ATVs is doing... "something." I also guess I'm an avid book reader since I read a book a few years ago.

There's not a lot of great solutions here but the city and state police have been working on this for a while. You being smarmy about an incoming mayor because you're grumpy over one completely unrelated issue is disingenuous.

If your opinion of the guy is this hopelessly biased based on one completely unrelated issue, it's hard to take it seriously. Anytime the opportunity has come up, you go out of your way to take a shot at him over this hyper fixation on whatever you think you read between the lines. If the guy was all about ripping up bike lanes, they'd be gone already. It's easy to get rid of them in January and February because nobody's fucking using them anyway.

Let it go.

Locksmith-Pitiful t1_jddxsof wrote on March 23, 2023 at 6:26 PM

> There's not a lot of great solutions here but the city and state police have been working on this for a while.

If this was any other incident, whether it be a riot, multiple cars, whatever, you bet your ass police would absolutely use force and other methods if need be to stop them. We also have their routes and exact times they plan this, at the very least, there's preventative measures.

>Anytime the opportunity has come up, you go out of your way to take a shot at him over this hyper fixation

Holy shit, the guy has been mayor for several months and the only thing his office has released is a proposal to strip a bike lane and multiple photos of him posing with police. There's literally only two things to "fixate" on lmao

Your adamant defense of him is making me question your sanity. How long should we wait until he does something productive or even releases a positive statement on fucking anything?