Cyclists want to spend millions of dollars out of highway user fees to build new bicycle infrastructure, including bike paths and lanes. But a recent survey by a bicycle advocacy group found that the most important reason women don’t bike is not lack of infrastructure, but because it is not convenient for them to do so. As a Seattle blogger points out, women spend twice as much time doing housework as men (including the time spent cleaning men’s cycling clothes), they are twice as likely to do trip chaining (combining multiple destinations in one trip), and they are twice as likely to take children with them on their trips. All these things make it unlikely that building a few bike paths will get lots more women on two wheels.
Meanwhile, in Gainesville Florida, a cyclist challenged the head of the local Republican Party to a bicycle vs. car race. The car won by 45 minutes–probably because the race was a stacked deck, requiring participants to wear business clothing, make multiple stops, and carry such things as groceries and a 2×4 (which proved to be impossible).
Of course, once cyclists get legislation passed forcing all businesses to have showers available, there won’t be any need to wear business clothing on cycle trips. (However, the time required to shower and change might have to be counted against the cyclist.)
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Provided they don’t face too many stop signs, the Antiplanner likes the idea of signed bike routes (“bicycle boulevards”), which are usually on local streets, because the cost is low and they can be pretty safe without reducing the capacity of arterials and collectors for moving cars and trucks. But don’t brag that your city is bike-friendly when it is not: from my experience, the most important thing Washington can do is fill the potholes that prevent cyclists from safely using many of the city’s arterials and collectors.
When trying to improve bike safety, don’t forget that most bike-motor vehicle accidents happen at intersections. You can even get killed at an intersection by following the directions of traffic officers. This means taking lanes away from cars and giving them to bikes won’t help much; improving intersection designs alone should be sufficient to improve safety.
Roads pay for themselves, and I will be the first to say that the military is vastly over bloated and needs to be cut down.
Roads don’t pay for them selves, the street in front of your residence doesn’t exist on a profit or loss basis & would still be there even if there were no automobiles.
Again, roads pay for themselves, and streets are largely paid for by developers. Roads benefit all citizens, drivers or not.
Let’s now look at rail. Not only does rail not for itself, it, in fact, requires enormous subsidies from drivers and taxpayers to exist. Forget profit, it can’t even pay for itself. So shut up with your stupid one-liner about roads not existing on a profit or loss basis, you are an embarrassment to other idiots.
highman
Property taxes include funds used for infrastructure, such as roads.
How & why, currently, would there be roads w/no vehicles?
How would the construction equipment get to such parcels?
How would people move in & receive deliveries?
Should public education not be funded by property taxes?
Should the parents pay? Put a bill on students to be paid later?
A shame that you hardly used public schooling.
Do you want all gov services to be paid for directly by the user?
Highways are among the most just in funding, mainly through user-based fees & taxes, albeit not directly tied to miles.
As far as general taxes for roads, pretty insignificant when 85%+ of adults drive & all benefit from trucking.
Not many other gov programs/services benefit that high of an amount, which are mostly in the category of the basic gov purpose for protection (military, police, fire, courts, etc.)
Damn, I just realized, high-man should be ignored, because he neither answers questions about points nor offers any intellectual discussion.
Accidents happen w/bikes in the way
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24943229/
You might as well be talking to a wall, Scott.
Metrosucks; Roads benefit all citizens, drivers or not.
THWM: Rail lines benefit all citizens too, direct users or not.
Well I suppose you might as well parrot what I say and make up a complete lie while you’re at it.
I’m not lying, you just don’t get it.
Certainly. Perhaps Professor Highwayman would care to elaborate.
metrosucks: You’re clogging my RSS feed. You berate Dan for too many posts, but you’re responsible for six of the last ten comments, and three others are from the highwayman. Why are you even talking to him? Give it a rest.
Frank, if O’Toole actually had to work for living, instead of getting dirty money from the Koch brothers. He wouldn’t be wasting other peoples time with this crooked blog & O’Toole isn’t going stop his jihad on railroads any time soon!
Sorry Frank, I couldn’t help responding to highwayman. You’re right. I don’t think I actually berated Dan for too many posts, though.
Back to the topic:
Here’s the number one reason why hipster women shouldn’t ride bikes in Portland. Those on single-speed cruisers with long flowing dresses are just asking for an accident.
The male biking problem in the number one biking city in the whole world is documented in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3nMnr8ZirI
Highwayman:
Care to make relevance on a person’s source of income?
What does _____, have to do w/points discussed?
If you think morality in a person paying for items used, or the fact that automobiles have enabled so much development, then address that.
Does Koch pay Randal? How much? Is it even 5% of his income?
What has Koch given to O’Toole & why?
http://www.kochind.com/kochFacts/
Did they pay him to say certain things?
Or do they have similar values in liberty & free enterprise?
Suppose that Koch paid Randal to have a stance?
Criticize that stance & explain how it’s wrong.
You cannot; nobody can, realistically, unless for pre-industrial society.
Your approach is typical of leftists (ala Alinsky)–distraction, implications on questioning motives (not even direct), attacking the person, etc.
Look at the issue & the factors involved.
I again went too much to counter you logically & factually, striking down your minor rants. Ah, you keep fooling me, that you have any intention of intellectual discourse.
Another guy, in suburban Denver(w/out transit access), working as a planner, is close to having your type of irrational discourse, but his use of a Thesaurus, conniving ways of distraction, & ornate presentation of something, despite the irrelevance, appears to make him almost smart, but the regular reader know that Dan is a dope.
You do you realize that your non-responses & your non-connection w/points at hand only proves your weakness & wrongness?
Is my guess [of over a year ago] true — that you do not have the brain capacity to think & care for your self, living in a gov institution?
Not keeping tally, but I have posed 100+ questions, facts & concepts, counter to your driveling nonsense, which you have not addressed.
Step to the plate?
You want the truth, justice & good economics?
Try a complete thought, w/facts in support of a premise.
Thanks I already knew Dan was a hyocrite.
Public transit is funded by government through the front door.
Automobiles are funded by government through the back door.
Scott you don’t want to even acknowledge that there are different people in the world.
Also if you can’t see that O’Toole has links to the Koch’s, then you need to wake/sober up!
H-man,
Why don’t you like Koch? It helps to learn.
http://www.kochfacts.com/kf/ (previous link given is inactive)
I have not seen a Koch link here among the others, but then I have not looked at all. (Maybe I prefer being asleep & drunk.)
What is your point about different people in the US or world?
I never typed anything about people being the same.
We don’t care to know your personal habits in using the backdoor.
What is your point about taxes for transit & autos?
You have failed to address the fact (mentioned often) that 85%+ of adults drive (~98% during lifetime), and that 100% travel on roads, and that 100% benefit from deliveries & other uses.
So, beyond the various vehicle usage taxes, which correlate w/VMT, on average, and property taxes which covers some infrastructure, does it matter that some general taxes go for roads?
You have conflated “free market” w/”anarchy”. Having laws & their enforcement are necessary for civilization, to prevent people from harming & cheating others. There are way too many laws & regs, which go overboard & create a huge drag on the economy, including many higher prices.
Scott, you love bullshit, I don’t.