Message: 4 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 11:56:54 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <BODY><P>I was looking at the Teach for America website, and after every city they wrote "Car is Essential." Bah! I thought I'd seek second opinions.</P>
Acck! Lots of superfluous coding! like specific cities you'd recommend or recommend to avoid, based on things like laws, bike paths, weather, general motorist sentiment, sprawl, etc.</P> <P>And I'm curious about Phoenix in particular.</P> Personally, this would be way up on my "avoid" list, although only by casual observation the various times I've been in the area. It's just one freeway after another through the sprawl, and they keep building more. (Example: when going to Scottsdale to visit the brewpub of a brewer I knew when he was brewing in northeastern Illinois, I had a hard time reconciling the directions with the not so very old map I was using. It turned out it was an entirely new freeway.) I don't know how well the bus system works, probably at least as ineffective as Madison's. If you're set on that part of Arid-zona before it runs out of water because of too many people living there, you might consider going a little farther south to Tucson instead. (I wouldn't choose to live there, but I want to live someplace that has WINTER! VMMV) Although it, too, is somewhat sprawling, it's not all freeways so somewhat more bike-able, I actually see bicyclists on the road there, motorists often seem a bit more respectful (although it's not really quite as bad as some people say in Madison, compared to a lot of places) and some of their bike laws seem to be better than ours in Wisconsin. (e.g., 5-foot clearance rather than 3-foot, better signs for motorists directing how they merge into bike lanes approaching intersections--rather than cutting across them as they do in Madison, et cetera.) I don't know much about SunTran and if it runs any more frequently than the thoroughly impractical and unacceptable half-hour headways as in Madison, but the buses do at least also have bike racks. Looking for a good bike-able city in North America and still want to move west? Go farther north. Try Portland (Oregon) or Victoria. Portland's also made an effort to have a real transit system, and I've seen *noticeably* more bicycles on the streets in Victoria than I have in Madison. Happy searching! Now go have a beer, Bob Paolino UWCU members: Please vote this month for your new board. (Hint: Only one candidate mentioned beer.) "Homer, why don't you get one of those hands-free phones? It's the next best thing to paying attention to the road." --Barney, The Simpsons ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign X against HTML e-mail: / \ Friends don't send friends HTML-bloated messages! A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
