On Jul 15, 8:19*am, " wrote:
On Jul 14, 8:59*pm, "T°m Sherm@n" ""twshermanREMOVE\"@THI









$southslope.net" wrote:
On 7/14/2011 5:40 PM, Peter Cole wrote:

On 7/14/2011 1:41 PM, AMuzi wrote:
His Highness the TibetanMonkey, the Beach Cruiser Philosopher wrote:
On Jul 13, 9:34 am, Peter Cole wrote:
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Good news that segregating bike traffic helps, though.

No, it doesn't work. Holland and Denmark are a complete failure. The
success stories are to be found somewhere in Florida and Texas.

Texas is a roughly $1.5 trillion dollar economy.
Denmark turns over roughly US$300 billion.

This is not news. Here are a couple of easily found links
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/denmark/gdp
http://www.economist.com/blogs/daily...us_equivalents

I don't know where all this is going. The only point I was trying to
make is that it seems to be becoming more obvious that cycling in close
proximity to MV exhaust isn't good for you and even small separation can
be helpful -- something my nose told me long ago.

I don't know what the 5x GDP of Texas vs. Denmark proves, when Texas has
5x the population, too.

But Texas has way more than 5 times the criminals (both white and blue
collar), religious nuts, ignoramuses, SUVs, sociopathic crony
capitalists, and other undesirables compared to Denmark. *Also more than
5 times the population of homeless, untreated ill, chronically hungry,
and exploited low wage workers.

The laws regarding victimless crimes are much more sensible in Denmark
than Texas, due to the population being aware of The Enlightenment,
rather than the socially regressive nature of Texas.

Anders Fogh Rasmussen is pretty far right-wing by Danish standards, but
a far cry from the brutality and ignorance of Shrub Bush and Good-hair
Perry (not to mention the criminality of the former).

Denmark has the much superior climate 9 months out of the year. *And one
of the best names for a bicycle manufacturer:
http://www.larryvsharry.com/english/.

--
Tºm Shermªn - 42.435731°N, 83.985007°W
I am a vehicular cyclist.

But, but, but....Texas is the most macho, tough, god fearing state in
the good ol' USA. Plus we have the handsomest, toughest, most macho,
most religious , and soon to be president of the USA, Rick Perry. He
is on a mission from god to become president so that he can minister
to us, or so he claims. No more black communist foreigners and
feminazis in the whitehouse. *Do I have to remind u that GHB, BWB and
Alberto Gonzalez are all from TX?

Texas is also so macho that it is one of the least educated states in
the nation, and it has cut pretty much all educational and social
services for the state in the last budget session, despite having some
of the richest and most powerful corporations in the WORLD. NOw, that
is really, really macho!

Finally, we got CHALO, and this makes us the bestest of the best.

"The Middle Class is what has distinguished this country from the rest
of the world for hundreds of years. Not Freedom. The Brits have more
freedom than we do and did almost from the time we were breaking fee
from Great Britain. The French have real, total freedom as do the
Swedes and Danes and Dutch and Germans and Swiss….far more freedom
than we have. What we have is more geography, more space. Germany is
the size of New York State. You could put all of Eastern and Western
Europe east of the Rocky Mountains with room to spare."

http://www.populistdaily.com/politic...ze-energy.html

Regrettably, this much space has not translated into more space for
bicycles...