I just watched the clip and it seems like he lumps bicycling with recreation as opposed to lifestyle choice to ease financial and land use burdens in the urban environment. The response to that is to prove that cycling is not just for Sunday afternoon recreation.
But beyond just getting bike paths inserted in the infrastructure mix, what will our transportation modes be in 20 to 30 to 40 years from now? If we don't know exactly, what plans are we making to make the transportation infrastructure able to make adaptations as transportation changes? I see a mix of big and small motored vehicles (fuel/power to be determined) as well as pedal power bi, tri, and quad cycles in local transportation. I think adaptability should be a major design consideration in future planning, whether or not there is "bail-out" for whoever. Just my two cents. Darryl --- On Mon, 1/12/09, Michael D. Barrett <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Michael D. Barrett <[email protected]> > Subject: [Bikies] Republicans: Bike paths are not infrastructure > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, January 12, 2009, 9:40 AM > A friend just sent this little message to me: > -Mike > *************************** > > On Face the Nation this morning Bob Shieffer asked house > minority > leader John Boehner about Obama's stimulus package. I > almost lost a > mouthful of coffee when [he] said this: > > ".... But infrastructure, I think there's a place > for infrastructure. > But what kind of infrastructure? Infrastructure to widen > highways to > ease congestion for American families? Is it to build some > buildings > that are necessary? But if we're talking about > beautification > projects or we're talking about bike paths, Americans > are not going > to look very kindly on this." > > Video: > > http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4712899n > > Transcript: > <http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/01/durbin_burris_on_cbs_news_face.html>http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2009/01/durbin_burris_on_cbs_news_face.html > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
