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letter to editor
On 2018-02-03 09:25, Joy Beeson wrote:
On Sat, 03 Feb 2018 07:48:41 -0800, Joerg wrote: Nearly everyone [thinks he] knows how to ride a bicycle[, but in fact knows less than nothing]. Please don't mung quotes. Anyhow, I disagree with your comments in the brackets. Witness the "cycle track" being proposed here for Market street: a two-way lane hidden behind a row of parked cars, between a right-turn lane and the sidewalk. I don't know where "here" is but it is a well-known fact that some planners are competent enough to build good bike paths while others are incompetent. In some countries such as my old stomping grounds in Germany most planners seem to be incompetent. In our area east of Sacramento, California, we are mostly lucky. Our community (Cameron Park) has almost no bike facilities because the local leaders are ... well, I better censor what I was going to write here. Folsom and Placerville OTOH are quite excellent in that domain, where we get this: https://folsomcasharttrail.com/Porta...-15-142644-430 Of course, my favorite bike routes look like this: https://cdn-files.apstatic.com/mtb/7...1458762626.jpg Aside from an increase in riders it has other effects. More people spend their discretionary funds (restaurants, pubs, etc.) there. I personally met people who bought a house there because of the bike path system. Now we are talking north of $400k plus $5k/year in property taxes. In my case I also spend more of my "errand Dollars" there, for example when I need something from the hardware store. The key reason is that I can cycle right to their front entrance and they even let me take the bike inside. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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