D.O.T. Secretary, Mary Peters ignores Biker Rights activists and settles for failure

Now if you read the previous posts you one would hope that it has been fairly demonstrated  how lack of "Action" sabotages our rights as "Bikers" (I use the term loosely).

Following is excerpted from
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[FHWA Docket No. FHWA-2005-23112]
Motorcyclist Advisory Council to the Federal Highway
Administration
AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of meeting of advisory committee and change to
membership. Posted here:

This notice also serves to identify a change in the MAC-FHWA
membership due to a change in the relationship between Mr. Steven
Zimmer, one of the original members of the MAC-FHWA, and ABATE of Ohio,
making him ineligible for the position for which he was nominated. Mr.
James D. ``Doc'' Reichenbach II, from ABATE of Florida, will replace Mr. Zimmer on the Council.

The FHWA anticipates that the MAC-FHWA will meet at least once a
year, with meetings held in the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, and
the FHWA will publish notices in the Federal Register to announce the
times, dates, and locations of these meetings. Meetings of the Council
are open to the public, and time will be provided in each meeting's
schedule for comments by members of the public. Attendance will
necessarily be limited by the size of the meeting room. Members of the
public may present oral or written comments at the meeting or may
present written materials by providing copies to Ms. Fran Bents,
Westat, 1650 Research Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20850-3195, (240) 314-
7557, 10 days prior to the meeting.

The agenda topics for the meetings will include a discussion of the
following issues 1) Barrier design; (2) road design, construction,
and maintenance practices; and (3) the architecture and implementation
of intelligent transportation system technologies.

Now once again we warned that this could happen and requested people take action.  We can only assume that by the failure of people to take enough action, that they were not satisfied with getting screwed at the state level, that they obviously have a large supply of preparation H, and are willing to get what Florida has got from the D.O.T. too.

The absurdity is evidenced by a few of the comments to the post that are reproduced here sans names.

You've got to be kidding. Doc can't ride a motorcycle, let alone advise someone about it. Think of all the people on the capital when Doc forgot to put his kickstand down and laid his bike over. Now you want to ask his advice? This guy is a crook. He is stealing from ABATE, now you want to give the carpetbagger a chane to steal from the nation

and

Pay off from Lopez maybe?   The bill is dead the bill is dead, ding dong the bill is dead.

and

I'm not sure why you guys are so upset...the agenda format confussed James when they used the word intelligent........"The agenda topics for the meetings will include a discussion of the following issues 1) Barrier design; (2) road design, construction, and maintenance practices; and (3) the architecture and implementation of intelligent transportation system technologies."

How much experience do you think he has in any of the above catagories?

and

Actually you are probably right in more ways than one.

D.O.T. has little credibility.

The ABATE of Florida President has no credibility with anybody other than the less than 1% of Florida bikers that are still hallucinating from the kool-aid and are know licking the posterior of the Grand Blue Smurf sing, "were in the money.........." (which of course they ain't but he is)

So when D.O.T. come out with whatever conclusions they come out with it is going to be all the easier to discredit them.

It must be Karma, Mary Peters and James D. Reichenbach a marriage made in heaven.

But I do have to wonder, Considering Doc' impotence in the Florida legislature, will it be Richard Lester that consummates the marriage?

Now we can and have linked to the numerous incompetency's, misstatements (some may choose to interpret that to mean "lies", some may not) and financial questions surrounding this gentleman, James D. Reichenbach, president/lobbyist of  ABATE of Florida , Board of Directors of Ambulance chasing Aim/NCOM. Search this site. IT ain't like we have tried to hide them.

So we will try a different tact.  We challenge anybody from ABATE of Florida to provide us a list of the accomplishments of their lobbyist over the last 10 years that did not involve retreat, compromise or surrender,  that has increased the rights the "Biker Community."

We know there are some ABATE members that read this site so bring it on. Tell us what justifies the above appointment.Add to Technorati Favorites

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