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... I ... the ever real objection ... as we get into the mind of the totalitarian surrounding this government ... the city ... this means something much more than the specifics of this dreadful program ... it means invasion what happens when you get ... a government that is to run by an autocratic than a year ... or are in the debt and government ... if only to a helpless ... the the the the the the the ... dissolve but excluding the the ... food and the hunger games ... or should I say Pulitzer Prize winning editorial board member of the Wall Street Journal ... for ... good afternoon and welcome to Opinion Journal I'm Mary Kissel well little did we know that when we aired our critique of the city by bike sharing scheme here in York City ... it would ignite such a national furor ... with the editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz back on the set today ... to responds to these ... autumnal hysteria Dorothy but ... he like the John storm I have appointed me it's just that by ... having a response ... I said John still has many polenta said the import of the ... most boring night this year and I really you can ... then ... be aligned to can expect to ... have a few ... understood from the ... trio had flown ... in all of the ... all of that that that the bonds were over ... I ... anyone know if I if you will need streets and city and you occasionally yes the bike rider ... who was careening down the sidewalk and on the fiscal ended ... in a self affirming ... environmental health has moved to clean is not the down the sidewalk ... and the answer is invariably end up raise that figure cannot verbalize ... and I thought that the Columbus fear response ... beautifully captured ... the general sense of ... we don't owe you anything we on the picture was of the world and already what about the response that they held more than a hundred community meetings ... and it got poll showing that the majority of New Yorkers really love this program isn't that enough democracy for you ... yes that's the kind of thing that we hear ... frequently and it sounds wonderful it's ... it's really quite laughable ... on community meetings ... cool are they asking who was talking ... person you have to come to ... this a policeman ... the policeman in every community to when you look over him and said of the bicyclists ... the kids ... don't ... get me started on the biased with ... me know the quantum ... of of complaints and helpless claims in this in Pensacola I ... we can do anything ... and so the real truth is you can get many community leaders you can get in the Indian city Council ... who are terrorized by this thing that really suits the bunny floppy ... and they they would have you seen anyone running for office in New York City doing this to say the word ... about the cyclists ... know at least one of them ... said to me I am hoping ... this but I don't see that person ... school ... well you know we we got to suck on email and on this segment it's generated news sell your home I also cried I wanna put up by one of the reader responses the plan is in your inbox become it's the best finale respond to you ... and I quote ... well and allow for an expansion myself I believe the city by external causes to GDP on balance ... happier and healthier as it says is when crowded subways ... intake to the streets that's from Sam O'Bryan cites the health argument or the ... need to be healthier ... that's right ... I ... that said Betsy had a chance and that's all you get rid of the top of the second question here on the screen and I quote ... um why would the cyclist he knows that he is most a still very say this about the best thing he gets in the bike lane ... we designed ... it may be mean because his bike lane is obstructing ... on its root in Iraq and ... so Dorothy is it's not bicyclists fault that they're on the sidewalks it's a fact of their trucks in the bike lane you ... know it's a nice asking ... tell me why someone should be ... mentioned the plan clean my aunts did that this this is Christina can only be yes but the therapist we hope the Spyker's consulting ... the question why can't ... we don't know why leases could be that their bicyclists coming down the wrong side ... of St and that could lead you to them because as ... you see this everyday bicyclists riding on the citizens ... of the likely ... to need to move the stuff I said was ... carried on this um Smith and Jon Stewart ... and all it wasn't a stand selling book and watching ... and seeing that as one blogger a perceptible and narrow ... this seemed like a stop for the stock ... well there was another thing that Jon Stewart gave us he said ... Rabinowitz is all across the city are speaking out to lease he admits that ... editorial board member Dorothy Rabinowitz thank you so much