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Before & after bike ghettos
Chalo wrote:
Frank Krygowski wrote: Parks can be pleasant, including linear parks. However, a) they are often not properly done; b) they are usually falsely called "transportational" (because riding out-and-back is not transportation); and c) the equivalent amount of money could do much more good for true transportational bicycling, if spent on other efforts. For those reasons, I think most bike trails should be build using park funds, not transportation funds. The next best thing to a bike freeway we are ever likely to get is a creekside or riverside trail. Call it a "linear park" if you like, but this is the sort of right of way that allows cyclists to traverse significant stretches of city without having to wait at traffic lights or even to cross streets-- because street "overpasses" are already present in the form of bridges. When such trails occur within a city, all trail access points can constitute access to home, work, or shopping for many people. If this concept doesn't work in the 'burbs, well, what can I say... it's far from the only screwed-up thing about the 'burbs. It's only right that cyclists and peds should have some limited access thruways, and it's only right that these should be legitimate applications for transportation funds. We cyclists have spent all our taxpaying lives buying motorist-only freeways. A little reciprocation would be nice. Chalo I'm not disagreeing with you but consider that darned near every thing you use and eat came to you in a truck on those roads. It's not all texting gawkers although it may seem so. -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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