Because NO ONE would ever be so stupid to purchase these bikes, (not even Jakes Good Ol' Boy friends) and believe people will actually rent and ride these God Awful looking bikes, Jake chose to spend YOUR taxpayer money to buy and create a business no one in their right mind would ever start. You download an Ap and rent the bike for $1.00 .
Look, I know you guys must be thinking I just hate Jake Day or that I go on the attack too often but let me assure you, that is not the case. This guy is just an IDIOT who needs to get the hell out of that office and let a real qualified person take over.
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If this notice proves one thing it's this. This incompetent boy mayor failed to say what day this will happen. Everything this weekend warrior does proves his inability to hold this office. Please someone step up and 'MAKE THIS CITY GREAT AGAIN'
I want to ride my bicycle,
I want to ride my bike.
---Queen
It's been spearheaded up by a friend of the establishment/head of the BPAC committee.
OMG! Lol
When will the insanity cease?
At least this project won't last very long (THIEF)
I remember reading, somewhere recently, where a city discountinued these bikes due to theft. He continues to spend tax payer money on stupid stuff and has yet to bring any decent jobs. Bring jobs,so people can afford to pay the taxes!! (And not min wage donuts stores)
Ebt cards, welfare, affordable housing, free methadone and now government subsidized bicycles. On the bright side, crime is down in Salisbury.
what happens if you just take the bike an ride it,whos going to make sure you even pay
Jake Day never progressed from a 10 year old's mind set. All his ideas to move Salisbury forward into a prosperous city with low unemployment and poverty, high home-ownership rates, etc are childlike pipe dreams. He is extremely unsophisticated, naive and alarmingly gullible when the snake oil salesman pounce on him.
What he fails to forget, is that Salisbury is not a vacation destination. There is little to nothing here to attract a tourist to want to rent a bicycle and tour this city. It's not like Washington DC, or the beaches.
He HAD to do it because I have yet to see ANYONE use a bike lane.
At SU of all places...That school is hostile towards our local kids attending there...It's cheaper to go out of state.
8:05 Just because they aren't smart as the other kids or don't have all their teeth are not reasons to be hostile towards them.
Oh the jealousy of you all.....you need some psychological help from a professional. Just can't stand it when Day does an outstanding things!!! Better get some help ole boy.....
Now have to hire a $50,000 a yr maintenance person with full benefits to maintain bicycles.
If you're over 5' 10", don't bother. These are not made for tall people.
Over/Under on how many are stolen...better yet if ANYONE other than Jake and the three people on that committee show up? Heck with meeting about the issues in our schools, crime, and funding dangit! We paid for bike lanes! He makes my head hurt...maybe they'll show up in those onesies from the barhop
I disagree.....the bikes will be used for getaways from armed robberies of people attending the folk festival
As one of the largest communities in Salisbury, SU brings in many visitors and guests. Parents and friends of students, visiting professors, exhibitors and prospective students and their families. They all spend money in this area. Most probably do not bring bikes with them. This allows them to tour the area on bikes if they choose. Yuo people are so quick to put down things you don't understand. If you don't like the bikes, don't use them and continue to be obese rednecks with negative attitudes. You wonder why no employers open real businesses here? Look in the mirror.
8:54, WOW, obviously we've ticked off one of Jake's staff members.
8:24 jealous of Day? You are kidding right? Anyone and I repeat anyone jealous of Day is a loser themselves. Day has done nothing in Salisbury that has contributed to anyone's quality of life except for a handful of special interest who control him and drag him around by the nose. If you think a slave boy to special interest is someone to be jealous of then something is seriously wrong with you. Instead of striving for excellence you have allowed yourself to be so lowered that you settle for deficiency and inadequacy.
It is exactly the kind of project dreamed up by feminine boys. Seriously. It sounds perfect for a place like San Francisco or Rehoboth
8:54 Going to tell you right here and now just like many on this blog told it like it was with Headquarters Live. Those bikes are going to sit there and turn to rust. If you think for one second all these visitors to SU are going to tour the area on a bike you are an ignoramus. Sorry not sorry to tell you this but it's time you ignoramuses are told just how pathetically ignorant and low IQ you are. Day and the rest of the ignoramuses got themselves so jazzed up over Headquarters Live and we were told this "music venue" was going to draw people to Sby and how it would benefit the community. And guess what. it didn't do crap just like most on this blog said and either will this asinine waste of money idea.
I was just at the park where the bikes are sitting waiting for the rain.
You have to download an app, put in a bunch of personal information to take a $1 bike ride. Way too much work.
There is a very very small segment of the population that will do this or that have a phone capable of doing this
My phone wont do it therefore I am excluded. Children will be excluded. Teenagers will be excluded as will older peeps. He is doing all this for the college students = not the community, and the college students won't bother with it.
8:54 - one of the Jakettes just told you that.
So shut up, get your butt out of your chair from behind your computer and run for the mayors office!!!!!!!!!!
8:57 What have you done other be a keyboard critic? Run for Mayor? Volunteered? No, thought so.
Joe, absolutely correct...one of the kids he has under his thumb?
God, I hope this isn't connected with that bike loan place downtown...I donated a couple of bikes there about a year ago...shame on me!
I do not recall the City Council voting on this matter. Is the Mayor allowed to spend money or enter into contracts without permission of the council? What kind of city government do we have?
I'm 8:54. A republican, business owner and own multiple properties in Wico. Sorry that you can't accept the truth.
9:12 Sorry you are not living in this century and cannot use a smartphone. Guessing you don't have Uber/Lyft apps either or pay for parking spots via app. Again, shorebillies.
This is all just a joke,right?
If there was an actual market for this service, it would already be a successful business. No doubt this will only be used in conjunction with the folk festival, then end up in the landfill. What a waste of city money!
These will come in super handy trying to navigate the never-ending construction debacle on main street!
As a very astute business owner said, these "kids" who are running downtown act before they think. Not every idea they have is worth pursuing, but for them it is damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead ALL THE TIME without seeking the benefit of wiser, more experienced counsel.
Joe - what do you know about the city setting up its own tourism office without consulting with the county?
I sometimes ride the trails at the Salisbury City park, but because of crime, I avoid this place now. Just as easy to load up my bike on the bike rack and explore other places and not have to pay a rental fee for a bike. Great idea for a vacation destination, but not for crime ridden Salisbury. Most college kids have their own bikes anyway.
LMAO! WOW Something is SERIOSLY WRONG with him. In Salisbury Maryland? We should make a game out of this. Everyone can guess when the last one will be seen around town. The one who is closest to that date wins. Everyone can put in $1.
Why do you think randy day wanted his ass out of perdue? Sad but true dad pretty much saying its your problem now Salisbury deal with it
9:12 that's exactly what I was thinking. I'm a senior citizen and it would be kind of nice to take a bike ride once in a while but I don't have a smart phone and don't know how to use one so that means my tax dollars go to something I can't use.
8:00 AM is saying the same thing others have tried to get across to the voters and city officials the bikes are STUPID just like the taking down of the fence down around Riverwalk so children and others can drown in the river. Also there is the idea of no chain link fences in Salisbury, and the festival, he said it early on in his term he is thinking along the lines of the Inner Harbor. Get it people it is like putting lipstick on a pig, it doesn't change Salisbury and never will. We have nothing to offer tourists, we are not a tourist town, we are in a nasty, dirty filthy, Wicomico River, run down town of bad roads, tire shops with dirty nasty tires in stacks all along route 13. The businesses you see the majority along Rt 13 are in bad need of painting or just plain demolishing. Take a good look Jake clean up the city and forget all the pipe dreams don't know what your smoking!!!!!!
If you look back in history a few years ago this is what Amsterdam did with (color bright Green or Orange I believe) and they all vanished in a few weeks and showed up in Eastern Europe for sale on the Black Market. They never learn.....
8:24...if you can expand on your comment I will go get help.First name one thing this cat has done to improve Salisbury. When you advise, I will make that appointment. And please don't suggest the death lanes (bike).
How much did Salisbury pay for each bike.
When I was a college student, a company(Zagster) was in the business of renting out the Bikes. Zagster paid the city of Charlotte $15/per bike for Docking Space. To my knowledge no bike was ever stolen that was docked correctly, the renter was responsible for additional cost if the bike was incorrectly docked. Zagster was responsible for collecting the rental fee and repairs, etc. Times have changed if Salisbury is responsible for running the Bike Sharing Service, instead of a business.
9:51 AM No I don't have a smart phone or need to use 'apps'.... Uber/Lyft. Do we actually have those here? I have a car that I have paid for (unlike most millenials working for Jakeoff)
9:51 am Just BTW My college loan is long ago paid off...Yours?
11:42 Never had one and have a Masters degree. Retired at 45. Now get back to work.
11:06 You can use, you just choose not to. Times have changed and there are many things you won't do because you chose not to have a smartphone. I'm surprised you are even online.
Jake Day is one weird WHACKO! Anyone with a brain will know that so many people walking, running or riding bikes on Salisbury roads have been seriously injured or killed. Don't do it. Say NO to Jackoff Jake.
How much money, ie. Tax Dollars, did Jake Day waste last night at the fabulous National Folk Festival with all the free hors d'oeuvres and free beer and wine at Salisbury University??
I rode my 🚴 past your window last night
I ride my 🚴, I roller skate, don't drive no car
Don't go too fast, but I go pretty far
Oh, I got a brand new pair of roller skates
We need a brand new Mayor!
Anonymous said...
Jake Day never progressed from a 10 year old's mind set. All his ideas to move Salisbury forward into a prosperous city with low unemployment and poverty, high home-ownership rates, etc are childlike pipe dreams. He is extremely unsophisticated, naive and alarmingly gullible when the snake oil salesman pounce on him.
February 22, 2018 at 7:48 AM
Exactly. People have tried this idea for many years and it failed. Now an idiot boi wonder comes up with these pipe dreams and his uninformed millennial idiots and the uninformed parents who never paid attention act like Jake Day is the best thing since sliced bread. Prove you dumb morons are clueless. All Obama voters.
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He HAD to do it because I have yet to see ANYONE use a bike lane.
February 22, 2018 at 8:01 AM
Have you seen the new bike lanes on Rt. 50 in the area of East Main Street to Naylor Street in the Westbound lane? The bike lanes would put you in the middle of Rt. 50 in between the cars turning right and the cars traveling in right lanes. What idiot designed those? Thank God I've seen no one using the bike lanes because someone is going to get killed.
"There is a very very small segment of the population that will do this or that have a phone capable of doing this."
Have you been outside lately? It's more uncommon for someone to NOT have a smartphone. I get that you may live in the country but it's not an unreasonable platform. Many companies use a similar format and this type of program has been elsewhere in the country and around the world for years.
Jake Day is a lost ball in tall grass and his council president Jack Heath rubber stamps everything he wants and does. The 2 Jack Off Brothers.
How's Jake days paddle board venture going?? This will be just as stupid and "successful". Someone else mentioned Jake is pulling this out of his ass in comparison to the inner harbor. Look what that has become now. Is this what you want for Salisbury?? Jake day doesn't care about Salisbury as a whole just a certain few but mostly any/everything he can to feed his ego and seem successful and relevant. I'm sure the bikes up at the inner harbor and still intact doing quite well, NOT
Red Square, sounds as if the communist has taken over Salisbury and SU
1:29 PM actually you are wrong. A lot of us have no need for it. I get calls and texts. I am obviously not needy like you. You are so stupid you don't realize they still sell sliders and flip phones for those of us without your cell phone disorder. They are also perfect for children, who should not have smart phones.
9:51 AM I have a car and I pay by credit card - Dont ever run into any issues. You're an idiot for paying 1K for the new Iphone. How stupid can you possibly be? I have better things to do with my money than waste it on an overpriced cellphone. What a sheep! Get in line lemming!
The SU campus has an area called the "Red Square?" That's offensive. The name needs to be changed! It is offensive to us Russian Americans!
Many millennials prefer not to have cars and rent them when they need one or use Lyft/Uber. It is actually cheaper in many locations to not have a car. Stop being a grumpy old fart.
They've had this in Northern VA where we own a home for a few years. We rarely visit the home and it is unoccupied except for a weekly visit by someone we hired to flush toilets, water house plants, collect the mail, turn heat/AC on or off and to check up on things. Everyone in the neighborhood knows the house is vacant. Anyway the person who checks on the house has found at least 10x's one of these bikes abandoned in our back yard. What it is someone uses it and doesn't want to return it and knows our house is vacant so leaves it there. I can imagine in Salisbury this is going to be even a bigger problem since this area of VA is million dollar+ homes. This and outright theft which is a big problem in VA and New York.
I'm saying it right here and right now so mark my words. Same thing that happened in Baltimore is going to happen. Before a year is over most of the bikes are going to be missing. It's an idiotic idea and when it fails I will take great pleasure in telling these idiots Told You So It was the same idiots who were nearly having orgasms over that other brain dead idea of a "music venue." Anyone who dared speak against was called "negative." They are so incredibly ignorant they can't tell the difference between reality and negativity. Again this is going to be a failure. And BTW remember that fee WiFi they all got themselves so jazzed up over and how it was going to get people to The Plaza? How that work out? People must be flocking to the Plaza I bet. LOL LOL
They abandon them everywhere and claim they were stolen. They say they will charge your credit card massive amounts of money but if you dispute you win. All the kids know this.
They'll all be in the river in a month.
IIRC, the bike rack at the GOB had a number of bikes parked there as props to justify the bike lane madness. This was a while back and SBY News ran some photos.
Flash forward to today.
It is obvious that Jake's vision goes only as far as reading about, or hearing about, some new or faddish item, practice or product. The cool kids in some Democrat urban spot have this or that...Jake wants one, too.
Roundabouts
Amphitheater
Bike lanes, ad infinitum
Free bike program
Folkie Fest
Duplicated public services
Trendy bar scene
Torn up downtown
Skatebording
New flags, decals, etc.
Fact is that if he'd put any effort into just actually maintaining and improving existing public spaces the results would be visible, tangible and would improve things for renters, owners and visitors alike. And owners would be more likely to maintain and improve their properties.
Cut the grass, pull the weeds, paint the curbs, fix the streetlights, etc. Once accomplished and ongoing, look to see what larger public investments could be justified.
He's the Johnny Football of urban planning!
Lol is lame please use something else.
SU elite students come from out of state because they are too dumb to get in any other school. Parents have money. Ever notice the cars they drive. Heard Wicomico community grade point average is 2.0. our locals are smarter than any outsider.
I don't mind the bikes. I mind as a taxpayer paying for them.
Wow aren't you just the cats meow. What are you doing in Salisbury if you are not a shorebilly? Can't get into a better school so you chose Salisbury with daddy's money. I'm not sure if you were bragging about Uber/Lyft are you get drunk alot and have to use Uber. You sound like a real loser Jake???
WTH are you doing in Salisbury?
Don't live here except a few months a year that have pleasant weather. Still own a business and investment properties in MD and surrounding states. Don't pay MD income tax either.
It appears you are not the smart ones!
The bike idea may work, but please clean up the trash, plastic bags, fast food containers, etc. along city streets. It really looks like a ghetto. And as for the new city flag, I think it's a disgrace and has no meaning.
The college kids that need bikes to get around already have them. No parent riding in a fancy car to come see their kids are gonna ride those bikes around here. Other places have done this and its been a big fail! Those bikes will disappear at the expense of the tax payers. This is not a good idea. The tax payers should not have to pay for it either. If some of you think that Jake is bad on his own with the rubber stamp of Heath, just wait and see what happens if Heath gets into the County Exec job. They will be tag teaming it and turning us into little Baltimore. Its well on its way now with the crime rates etc. Salisbury used to be a nice place to live and raise a family, but not now. The crime rates and the job loss due to over regulations and tax in this county and city and state is turning this state into a banana republic. Jake needs to go. We need a good person to run up against him. Do not vote for Jack Heath he will continue to finish off this county. the two J's will dominate (the good ole boys) and it all will go to hell worse then it already is. Don't do it!
So, someone with a battery operated cutoff wheel can take them all and throw em in the river? Just a prediction.
When it fails the police department can use bikes? They need to bring back the bike patrol like when Chief Dykes was there. Bike patrol got it done.
I see lots of expensive new apartments going up but not many single family homes.
These bikes are slow, heavy, generic clunkers. Someone will get killed even in the bike lanes that go no where. I think they are purposely slow so it takes you longer to get where you are going and pay more. If a car hitting you doesn't do you in this hunk of junk falling on you will.
I hope nobody gets HURT or "HURT" on one and SUES the city.
It is always so easy to spend other people's money.
Their comments didn't seem angry to me. Not sure where the"WOW" is coming from?
Taxpayer dollars going for all these stupid social programs and small businesses that keep people in jobs can't get a loan from anyone it's like the people in charge want the demise of Salisbury.
Off topic , but true, the out-of-area students are hostile to local kids attending SU. I don't know of a cost effectiveness study was done, but I would guess Salisbury residents need to use to bikes back and forth from work to home more than sight seeing.
Joe while I can usually agree with you or meet you half way I hate to say it I actually saw 8 people in 3 different groups today on these things.The curiosity is there for sure. Maybe, just maybe some of these things will work for the city. Sure a bunch of what they come up with is mis-guided at best but I really feel we ALL need to give it a chance at some point. All the best-ME
When you sign up I'm sure you agree to a liability clause
No offense but have you ever been out of the shore? These programs have been widely successful around the world. I happen to agree with you that it'll be a bust here though
LOL I'm calling bs
The THUGS are going to love chopping up the bikes for stolen parts esp when it cost a $1 to rent with a bs Walmart debt card ?
The metal scrap yards are going to make a killing from the thugs stealing them for Scrap.
You better get ready for more of this liberal "dumbocrat " wasteful spending. Your illustrious mayor has talked his national folk festival director O'Hare's husband into running for the 37b house seat. You people are being taken over by entitled brats and you don't even know it
Instead of spending our tax dollars on an amphitheater and a bikeshare he might consider fixing the infrastructure. Has anyone driven down Parsons Rd off of Pemberton towards Brew?!?!? That road looks like it was littered with IED's straight out of Iraq.
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