New Cycling Lanes Are Expensive
Bret Cahill
Bio fuel and/or grid powered transportation can be implemented fast
enough to cushion the shock of peak oil.
Plan B, In Case Plan A Isn't Practical, Either Technologically,
Economically or Politically:
To keep the death and injury rates down we'll need to build cycling
lanes.
Some places in the western U. S. have opportunities to build cost
effective bike lanes but in most places you'ld have to use eminent
domain to get the land, move telephone poles, buildings, bridges and
other structures.
In some places they don't even like dirty smelly cyclists in the first
place. In Va. Beach, Virginia a motorist will not even get so much as
a traffic ticket for killing a cyclist if he tells the cop he "didn't
see him" so this might be a difficult uphill climb, the political
equivalent of that mountain stage between Marseilles and Lyon.
Plan C, In Case Plan B Isn't Practical, Either Economically or
Politically:
Since fewer motorists will be on the road simply convert a motor
vehicle lane to a cycling lane on 4 lane roads.
This only requires some paint, signs and signals, maybe moving a curb
at most.
I knew one cynical [realistic] guy who was successful in life simply
by tossing all the utopianish Plan As and Plan Bs.
Bret Cahill
"You do 90% of the work in 10% of the time and 10% of the work in 90%
of the time so if you drop the 10% of the work that is taking up 90%
of your time and focus on the rest you can work at 810% efficiency."