Should Austin rename its Lance Armstrong Bikeway

[jsr]

built with $3.2 million of taxpayer money to honor a zero-time Tour de France winner and "the most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen"?

[FSogol]

1. Just add a "Drug Free Bike Zone" sign under it. n/t

[ChisolmTrailDem]

2. Not yes but hell yes. eom.

[montanacowboy]

3. Absolutely

I have had enough of this faker

[ceile]

4. It was not built to honor him.

Planning for the Crosstown Bikeway (it's official name) began in 1998. Half the money came from the city the rest from federal grants.

"In late 1998 (or maybe early '99, we forget), local cycling advocate Eric Anderson (476-7304) proposed the idea of a crosstown bikeway running about 5 miles east/west from Mopac to 183, mostly along the abandoned railway on 4th St. The City Council approved $1.2 million of City money for the project, and applied for matching federal funds. The City was awarded $1.97 in federal matching funds in Jan. 2000. (Several other bike and non-bike applications failed to receive funding.) In a fit of patriotism, the City Council named the project after local sports cycling celebrity Lance Armstrong, though Armstrong had nothing to do with the project."
http://bicycleaustin.info/roadways/crosstown.html

City has no plans to change the name. Should we take down our Willie Nelson and Stevie Ray Vaughn statues because they smoked pot?

"Austin mayor, users of Lance Armstrong bikeway say don't change name"
http://www.kvue.com/home/Austin-Mayor-and-users-of-Lance-Armstrong-Bikeway-say-dont-change-the-name-174686951.html

Personally I don't care...

[1-Old-Man]

5. If Ronald Reagan has an airport named after him why not a bike path for Lance Armstrong?

[hollysmom]

6. heh

[friendly_iconoclast]

7. No, but make it also a safe injection site....

[Erose999]

9. "The Lance Armstrong Bike Trail and Needle Exchange" you gotta admit it has a ring to it.

[Erose999]

8. They should just name the baseball field in the background after Marc McGuire and their weight room

after Ahhnuld. Because clearly, the free market and Corporate America have no problem with performance enhancing drugs. Public projects like these should run more like corporations and successful businesses, and should therefore grant lucrative endorsement contracts to users of drugs. Because they're winners, dammit!

[thelordofhell]

10. Or rename it after a biker who is clean

*chirp* *chirp* *chirp*

[Ikonoklast]

13. Unless doughnuts, gravy or cheeseburgers are considered 'performance enhancing substances',

this guy gets my vote.

[HooptieWagon]

11. Maybe they should rent out space for steroid-injection kiosks every half mile.

Generate a little income...

[KamaAina]

12. Yes, to "Roid Road".

[MineralMan]

14. Rename it to Epoetin Bikeway

Or Procrit Bikeway. Or Epogen Bikeway.

That would about get it. Any of those would do.