Anyhoo, yeah Sam - after a massive military industrial buildup, carrying the banner of national socialism, the livable streets bicycle armies (numbering in the hundreds of thousands) roll in and occupy Manhattan. Anyone known to be a driver or sympathetic to drivers is routinely rounded up and shipped off on high-speed commuter rail to "concentration streets" in cities across the region. There they spend their time forced to make colorful chalk drawings on the pavement until their fingers bleed. Some lucky souls are taken in by the brave industrialist Oscar Schindler and are spared execution by being put to work in one of the Livable Street party's many training wheel factories.

Puh-leez

http://www.livablestreets.com/streetswiki/livable-streets

You may think it's jargon, but I find this part pretty clear:
"Unlike other streets that primarily serve the needs of traffic, [livable streets] cater to the needs of everyone using them."

Generally speaking, wanting to use public streets as a place to store your private motor vehicle would not make you a livable streets advocate. But wanting a better world is a good start.

These are all COMPLETELY contradictory ideologies: left wing, right wing, anarchy and fascism - the full gamut. I have seen some commenters call the DOT commissioner a hippie and a fascist in the same sentence. I guess some people are just so completely consumed with animosity, they will take the image of whatever ideology they consider to be "the enemy", and project it onto anything they oppose, be it livable streets or anything else.

It is a remarkable trait that seems prevalent among those raving bloggers with the particularly loud brand of aggressive ignorance that is characteristic of livable streets opposition. But I fear not - I believe there are sensible people at the helm of the ship right now.

I hate to break it to you, NYPD Ranter, but the Mayor agrees with the "counter culture freaks."

"All the world 's a parking lot, and all the men and women merely drivers. They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time parks in many spots."

I think the ranters don't get who it is who is most affected by, and most resents, the placards. Drivers without them. Parking perks for the privileged do not affect my ability to ride my bicycle. They affect my ability to park my non-privileged car.