Comedian Jon Stewart took a few stabs at the cringing voices coming out against Citbike, the bike share program that launched on May 27 in New York.
“One of the most important stories is happening right here in New York City,” says Stewart. “Six thousand shiny new bikes.”
“Tomorrow it’s gonna be 3,000–you know what I am talking about,” he says in affected Brooklynese on the clip. “Oh my God, we’ve 
imported Europe’s most boring idea!.”
“The idea of New Yorkers sharing anything other than sexually transmitted diseases is wackadoo,” said Stewart.
Among the critics he roasted is Dorothy Rabinowitz, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist for the Wall Street Journal, who called the Bloomberg administration an “autocracy” that put bike share in New York to satisfy the “bike lobby.”
In a follow up, Stewart shows interviews with cranky New Yorkers reacting negatively to the new bike share parking spaces. “One morning I woke up and they were there,” complained one woman.
“I might be a potential accident,” complained one lady. “Let’s face it, you might be a potential accident anywhere,” retorted the interviewer.
Another man being interviewed said he was never told about the new racks in his neighborhood. “Apart from the 159 meetings, they didn’t say a word?” asked the interviewer, referring to the 159 community meetings that were held by the Department of Transportation prior to installing the racks.
He then goes to Bedford Stuyvesant where there are no bike share racks. This is not to be missed.
