Community Soapbox – The best comments From WestSideSpirit.com

Ban Electric Bikes
If they’re illegal (“Feds Say You Can’t Restrict it—Electric Bikes,” Dec. 15) they should be banned, period. Federal law should not govern cities and towns for local transportation issues. NYC is a PEDESTRIAN city, not a bike city as the bike vultures would have it. That’s why we have public transportation and sidewalks. How many times I have seen bikes traveling on sidewalks or going opposite traffic I can’t count, nor could any New Yorker—and people have been killed and injured as a result.
—Yikes Bikes

Overcrowding Solution?
The community has heard that this school, at this size, will fill up just with the people living in the towers (“No Riverside Mirage,” Dec. 22). What happened to the idea that the school would help ease elementary school overcrowding in the area and give us a sorely needed D3 middle school option?
I have clear, painful memories of the city NOT exercising its right to build a school on developer land in the Trump development just to the north of Riverside Center. Those kids swamped the Upper West Side. Please let them not make the mistake again by passing on that extra 15,000 square feet.
—UWS Mom

Occupy the Boat Basin?
I heard about these people who live on their boats in the 79th Street Boat Basin for $400-$500 a month rent. 
It’s completely egregious and unacceptable that the City of New York permits a private cooperative of wealthy middle class and upwards to live on and control public land. This place is essentially a public park that has been co-opted and turned into a gated community subsidized with taxpayer dollars. Hmmmm….Occupy 79th Street?
—So Cal Prof