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Build it and they will come - but where are they?
On 4/21/2018 4:14 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 4/21/2018 4:03 PM, sms wrote: In my house, the new infrastructure has resulted in an 100% increase of household members cycling to work. OK. In our house and in our previous house, I cycled to work using no special segregated infrastructure at all. Nobody else cycled to work. But given that my wife had home health medical clients all across the county, that's not surprising. Near the houses of each of our adult kids, there are bike lanes and/or separate MUPs. Nobody in those families cycles to work. One still rides occasionally, including some trips to the store, but puts in far more miles running. The other doesn't ride at all, despite bike lanes right outside the front door. More interesting to me is visiting the town where one kid lives. Yes, there are bike lanes. Yes, they have gravel in them. They just don't have bikes in them - IOW, I see about two bikes per year using the lanes. One of those lanes is on my normal route to their local hardware store. It runs along the curb past a playground all the way up to a T intersection, where almost all traffic turns right. It's an invitation to a right hook crash. Frank, you don't see the big picture. If a couple million dollars of pavement and striping in Santa Clara increased a household's commuters from one to two, then it's clear that if the nation would merely replace all structures with underground bunkers and pave everything dead smooth, without curbs or automobile lanes, we could have 330 million commuters! Extrapolate, man! -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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