U.C. David gets $14 million 5-year grant from the US DOT to do research on sustainable transportation

[jbs]

https://its.ucdavis.edu/slide-show/14-million-federal-grant-for-sustainable-transportation-research/

[Jerry Roane]

Jerry

Why is her photograph taken with several bicycles with identical handlebars?  What is the symbolism of that photograph.  Does it mean that we sheeple are to conform to one best Utopian bicycle?   The bicycles in the background are the unwashed masses and the foreground are the superior advanced bicycles???   

Why do they need millions of dollars to write down the deeds of others?  Isn't that scribe job lower paying than that?  I am guessing you could hire five grad students for dirt and get a report to turn in for the millions.  Who pockets the spare cash?

Going with the flow and matching up to the academia storyboard we should start with a Schwinn banana seat five speed and slowly over decades evolve it to be this Utopian bicycle.  Evolve the seat to be progressively smaller. Evolve the 5 speeds to infinite speeds.  Evolve the spoke wheels to cast plastic wheels.  Evolve the frontal area to include a full faring.  Evolve the pedals to an electric assist set of pedals.  Evolve the energy source from expensive CO2 intensive human food flown in daily from Hawaii and South America to sunshine power converted on site in real time.  Move bike trails from the lawn to trails to bridges to multi-level guideway.

How many evolution iterations can they buy with $14,000,000 paid to a brick and mortar edifice?  I am guessing they will get none.  Maybe a cell phone app that charges you for the use of a borrowed bicycle that will be stolen and parted out for scrap steel at $10 per ton in less than a year.  

Given the evolutionary path where dumb begets smart and simple begets complex, the path to Utopia of sustainable transportation must endure billions of years of progressive failure to get to 100% sustainable transportation research.  Given enough eons we can fail our way to perfect success.   

Feeling a little bitchy today.

Jerry Roane   

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 11:05 AM, jbs <j...@u.washington.edu> wrote:

https://its.ucdavis.edu/slide-show/14-million-federal-grant-for-sustainable-transportation-research/

[WALTER BREWER]

Maybe she remember secretary LaHood said bikes are the answer, at a bike factory?

Is there one in USA?

Cheer p! I think San Diego Transportation Plan has redced bike trail budget from over$ 3 billion to only $1billion.

Walt Brewer





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[Jerry Roane]

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Just what San Diego needs is $1,000,000,000 worth of cement added to the remaining grass.  They should be able to pave every stick of grass in the city with a billion.  Maybe instead of paving more of the city they can pave out into the Pacific Ocean.  We just can't get enough pavement you know.

Here is the price of concrete sidewalks in San Diego   ---   http://concrete.promatcher.com/cost/san-diego-ca-concrete-costs-prices.aspx

At $7.61 per square foot that will cover 131 million square feet with dedicated bike concrete and steel rebar.  On that much concrete with a bike tax/toll how long does it take to get to break even?  What will bike license tags cost for a payback on investment of 2 years?    Will they need to add odometers to bikes in order to properly tax bike trail use?  Your cell phone accelerometer should be able to detect the side to side sway of bicycle pedaling and then send that data to the California tax office for fair billing.   There are 1.35 million people so each person of the family owes the fed $740.  The tag price at $700 and tolls totaling $40 per bike plus bike rental and storage fees.  Seems about right.    

Jerry Roane     

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 2:54 PM, WALTER BREWER <catc...@verizon.net> wrote:

Maybe she remember secretary LaHood said bikes are the answer, at a bike factory?

 Is there one in USA?

Cheer p! I think San Diego Transportation Plan has redced bike trail budget from over$ 3 billion to only $1billion.

Walt Brewer





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