On Wed, 28 Michael Lemberger said: > Advocating cycling is the craziest of all > possible things for a cycling advocacy organization to do.
The highway bill proposes $255 B be spent, mostly on highways. It recommends $250 M for safe walking and bicycling to school, or less than $1 for every $1,000 for highways -- to say nothing about the increasingly polluted air, more noise, more destruction of wildlife habitat and increasing safety problems that go with more motor vehicles being driven each year. I hardly call supporting that advocating for cycling! The highway builders and AAA are laughing all the way to the bank -- they say even America Bikes supports their plan -- while the whole environment for everything goes down the tube. That's kind of thinking that got us all into this mess. "On average, a pedestrian is killed in a traffic crash every 112 minutes." (American Public Transportation Association, Transit Fact Book 1999). Mike "The world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems which cannot be solved by the same level of thinking in which they were created." -- Albert Einstein ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the Internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the Web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
