Well, you brought up "complete streets,"
and that is in my mind the way we need to go
instead of seeking special funding. I will accept
your thanks for being a part of the team @ Bike
Fed that got us that. Now we need to monitor and enforce.
At 08:56 PM 8/31/2013, Matt Logan wrote:
All good and fine, except somebody left out the
part where back in June at the JFC hearings, the
WTBA threw bicycling under the bus and opposed a
provision that would have preserved the funding
for bicycling at pre-map-21 levels. Sure, the
WTBA will take bike money too unless it comes
at the expense of growing the number of
lane-miles in the state, which is where the WTBA
is banking its future. And this isnt just my
opinion it comes from a member of the WTBA.
And what will WTBAs strategy of lane-miles
first produce in conjunction with complete
streets? It will produce longer distances to
daily needs which means few people will be able
to use those facilities for anything except
recreation. But hey, if you come from the
mindset of the silent-sports crowd, maybe that is all you really want?
Well, that is not good enough for me I want
the freedom to live my life with as much
utilitarian bicycling as possible, not
ever-expanding sprawl-malls sucking my
neighborhood stores dry and inhibiting the
potential for neighborhood development in places
like Grandview commons, which recently had to
disappoint people who moved there for a smaller
grocer because of all the sprawl-scale grocers
we have subsidized with lavish highway expansions.
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of William Hauda
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 8:38 PM
To: bikies-danenet.org
Subject: [Bikies] Road Builders
We were all amazed at the erection of
the Cannonball Bike Path bridge over the South
Beltline. Incredible coordination between the
operators of two huge cranes, with super-high
voltage power lines a consideration on the
south end. There is a lesson here. Notably, the
work was done by the Kraemer company out of
Plain, WI, one of the state's largest road
builders. Member of the Wisconsin
Transportation Builders Association, formerly
the Wisconsin Road Builders Association, which
recognized they can make money building bike
facilities, too, and changed its name and focus
to reflect that fact. It's a slow process, but
things are evolving to a time in which we will
have "complete streets" and roads will be
designed and built by "road builders" to be
multi-model and to accommodate bikes and peds.
"Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia." -- H.G Wells, A Modern Utopia, 1905
Bill Hauda
14 Northlight Way
Fitchburg, WI 53711
608-574-4471
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