How could Jefferson pay for this if they lost $30 million last year and are telling some department heads that they have to cut $5 million from departmental budgets?
Steve Spindler on 5/3/02 4:11 AM, Jeff Abrahamson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:52:02PM -0400, John Boyle wrote: >> To establish the bus and bicycle lane, the federal government paid nearly $1 >> million of the $7 million cost of upgrading Chestnut Street. If that lane is >> closed, the government might want its money back. >> >> The bill's sponsor, City Councilman Frank DiCicco, is working with the >> office of Sen. Rick Santorum (R., Pa.) to allow the city to keep the money. >> >> But if the government insists on getting back its money, Primavera said, >> Jefferson and its parking-garage developer, Interpark, are committed to >> raising the money from Chestnut Street businesses or paying the cost >> themselves. > > It may be politicallly touchy for BCDV to lobby Santorum to let the > city not pay back. But I think it well worthwhile for the rest of us > to write him letters supporting the Feds insisting on getting the $1 > million back. Otherwise the city can feel it can get paid for > bike/ped/transit enhancements and then just pave them over after it's > gotten paid. > > (Never mind that they don't enforce the right lane, and the whole idea > was poorly conceived because it depended so much on enforcement.) > > TJU's arguments about saving lives are bogus, btw. Those people could > as easily by driving on, say, Market, where a right turn is > legal. Nothing particularly favors Chestnut, except that drivers would > like to believe that they have preemptive rights to all roads at all > times. -- Steve Spindler Cartography BikeMap.com 1504 South Street Philadelphia, PA 19146 (215) 985-2839 (425) 984-1820 (FAX) ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the Bicycle Coalition of the Delaware Valley list named "bike." To subscribe or unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
