The cost-effectiveness of bike lanes in New York City

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JS

On 2016-11-08 12:01, James wrote:
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Bike lanes almost always make sense if strategically planned right. Of
course, this one in Folsom is a tad exaggerated :-)

http://www.analogconsultants.com/ng/bike/Bikelane1.JPG

Or this where you get to pick between a bike lane or a bike path:

http://www.aaroads.com/california/im...bikeway_03.jpg

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Regards, Joerg

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On Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 3:01:36 PM UTC-5, James wrote:
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goo.gl/7zzchs

alert time for lighting. carry lights. I harangued a nab last hour....dark.

SMS n Beady are commiserating on Cal mobiles.

Daze in good hands. Their townsfolk may be sociopaths but in Cal one drives or does not drive.

In the east we have guardrails. In Fla we have flatness n no curves except for .... headons our specialty. Drunks druggies....retards ...highest bicycle fatality rate USA.

If we moved our drivers to SC n environs yawl be dead meat.

who knew ?

goo.gl/aTqCzz

On Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 8:01:36 PM UTC, James wrote:
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Since life is the ultimate benefit, 2.79USD for an additional 20 hours of a high quality life like mine seems a bargain, annualizing to 1268USD for a year of extra life. My physician and cardiologist have long been on this case, saying that cycling so regularlarly for the last quarter-century saved my life, and that continuing to cycle continues to contribute to the quality of it.

Of course, if you were a sourpuss econometrist, you might argue that the hours spent on the bike to receive the benefit must be subtracted, and so inflate the annual cost by perhaps as much 10 per cent (which would be approximately 2 hours a day on the bike). I wearily wave off such accounting hairsplitting: who wouldn't pay even double that much, say $2500 for an extra year of life?

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Andre Jute

On Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 4:22:59 PM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote:
On Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 8:01:36 PM UTC, James wrote:
http://injurypreventionbeta.bmj.com/...ev-2016-042057

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JS

Since life is the ultimate benefit, 2.79USD for an additional 20 hours of a high quality life like mine seems a bargain, annualizing to 1268USD for a year of extra life. My physician and cardiologist have long been on this case, saying that cycling so regularlarly for the last quarter-century saved my life, and that continuing to cycle continues to contribute to the quality of it.

Of course, if you were a sourpuss econometrist, you might argue that the hours spent on the bike to receive the benefit must be subtracted, and so inflate the annual cost by perhaps as much 10 per cent (which would be approximately 2 hours a day on the bike). I wearily wave off such accounting hairsplitting: who wouldn't pay even double that much, say $2500 for an extra year of life?

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Andre Jute

Last Wednesday I took the fastest route to drive to my specialist. Two hours driving time. It took me 15 minutes more than if I had ridden my bike. Traffic in the San Francisco Bay Area has reached the breaking point. We have people commuting to San Francisco from the central valley, Santa Rosa and Monterey. Four hour commutes are the norm and companies too stupid to move where their employees are also the norm.

On Monday, November 14, 2016 at 4:37:17 PM UTC, wrote:
On Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 4:22:59 PM UTC-8, Andre Jute wrote:
On Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at 8:01:36 PM UTC, James wrote:
http://injurypreventionbeta.bmj.com/...ev-2016-042057

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JS

Since life is the ultimate benefit, 2.79USD for an additional 20 hours of a high quality life like mine seems a bargain, annualizing to 1268USD for a year of extra life. My physician and cardiologist have long been on this case, saying that cycling so regularlarly for the last quarter-century saved my life, and that continuing to cycle continues to contribute to the quality of it.

Of course, if you were a sourpuss econometrist, you might argue that the hours spent on the bike to receive the benefit must be subtracted, and so inflate the annual cost by perhaps as much 10 per cent (which would be approximately 2 hours a day on the bike). I wearily wave off such accounting hairsplitting: who wouldn't pay even double that much, say $2500 for an extra year of life?

http://coolmainpress.com/ajwriting/

Andre Jute

Last Wednesday I took the fastest route to drive to my specialist. Two hours driving time. It took me 15 minutes more than if I had ridden my bike. Traffic in the San Francisco Bay Area has reached the breaking point. We have people commuting to San Francisco from the central valley, Santa Rosa and Monterey. Four hour commutes are the norm and companies too stupid to move where their employees are also the norm.

It's time for you to invent a pedal-powered helicopter.

I liked one thing about Sydney, otherwise an inconvenient city: I went to work from the company house in Vaucluse by speedboat, moored it below the Opera House, and strode jauntily up Pitt Street to my office, my day's exercise done before I even started work (take that, you poncey gymn-goers). Even in Manhattan I walked to work, going to the country only on weekends. We had an HR psychologist at my ad agency who advised the chairman to forbid us to drive ourselves to work, and to give us all two shifts of drivers; his theory was that the ulcers and heart attacks were at least 50% caused just by traffic frustrations, and it was true that afterwards the partners appeared to live longer. I have no idea of what it is like today but suspect that, 40 years aftrer I last went in to an office (I work at home), the traffic frustration, even on a bike, would kill me in short order.

Andre Jute
Seriously