Unfortunately Mr. Hauda, your complete refusal to address the land use - transportation connection is going to leave many of Madison's utilitarian bicyclists out in the cold. And let's keep in mind that at this point, all transportation in the state is funded by "special" funding in the form of borrowing against general purpose revenue, which those of us who are utilitarian bicyclists are paying right alongside with the rest of Wisconsin's taxpayers.
From: William Hauda [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2013 5:32 PM To: Matt Logan; 'bikies-danenet.org' Subject: RE: [Bikies] Road Builders 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 isn't just my opinion - it comes from a member of the WTBA. And what will WTBA's 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] <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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