On Sat, 17 Feb 2007 18:32:33 GMT, "nash" wrote:
"donquijote1954" wrote in message
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On Feb 16, 9:23 pm, "Jack May" wrote:
"donquijote1954" wrote in message
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But the good news is the facts are on our side and an ounce of
truth trumps a tonne of lies. Given the choice, most people opt for
carfree experiences: speedy tram trips, vacations in Venice, strolls
to local markets, and public gathering places free from motor
vehicles. The challenge then is to promote existing carfree otions and
to create new ones.
You really should wait to until you come down from you drug high before
posting insane gibberish
You forget two important words: GIVEN THE CHOICE. People often do none
of the above because they don't have a choice. Same thing for riding a
bike...
"The culture is so geared to motor vehicles, it's oppressive," says
Craig Barnes, events coordinator of Transportation Alternatives, the
nonprofit group that organizes Bike Week, with sponsorship from the
city's Department of Transportation. "It's a real catch-22. People say
they'd bike if they saw more infrastructure, like bike lanes, parking,
traffic law enforcement, but city planners and politicians say they
won't give more until they see a need for it. Who's going to make the
first move? We try to link these two things."
You know, cars get the lion's share...
"The skew to cars, despite their disadvantages, is so profound,
politicians and bureaucrats spend entire careers simultaneously trying
to accommodate and tame traffic."
http://www.transalt.org/press/media/...0509voice.html
And hence we have a health problem linked to heart disease because people
would rather look like blimps than fight the gov't.
Never mind how many bikers die on the road. What about the no. 1 killer
which would not have happened if we were not this car centric.
Two wheels?
I got up and looked at my brand new Radio Shack indoor-outdoor thermometer this
morning, the bottom screen read 72.5 degrees, and the top one read 12.8
degrees.
Now, the damn driveway is a glare of ice, which is negotiated OK by my AWD
Subaru WRX. The roadways are _mostly_ clear of ice, but not parking lots - I
damn near sprained something in the movie parking lot last night after seeing
"Breach".
2 wheeled vehicle? Not on your life. I'd be having to buy a casket, mine. And
short of that, there's frostbite.
Face it, a car is an all-weather solution, or as close as you can get to one
for moving around locally. Even the damn DC Metro, the closes transit to which
I _still_ don't have access, stops when there's a lotta snow. They don't even
try - the snow shorts out the 3rd rail. So much for the exhaulted electric
trains. If they woulda just kept 'em in tunnels, I guess...
Dave Head