Larry's got a tough nut to crack out there in Iowa County.
Wonderful roads to ride; crappy citizen attitude. I know. I lived there
for more than two decades.
Iowa County is a place where bicyclists are not welcome. It has a
district attorney (who gets re-elected simply because of political party
- Democrat) but failed to follow up and file any charges when a driver
turned into a driveway in front of a very well-known and popular
cyclist, killing him. A county where the circuit judge could care less
about allowing bicycle events to happen.
It's a county where people don't mind waiting for parades of
motorcycles, Corvettes and antique cars, but object to any
inconvenience caused by bicycle events. Hence a restrictive ordinance on
bicycle events (due to expire this year unless renewed).
Larry's got my sympathy. He moved to Dodgeville. As for me, I got
the hell out of Dodge (ville) and moved to Fitchburg, where cycling is
embraced by the mayor and current city administration.
My advice to Larry is that I think he will find new state Senator
Howard Marklein receptive. New Representative Todd Novak, who I know
from journalism, I don't know regarding cycling issues.
"Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia." -- H.G Wells, A Modern Utopia, 1905
Bill Hauda, President
14 Northlight Way
Fitchburg, WI 53711
608-574-4471
On 3/7/2015 9:59 AM, Michael Rewey wrote:
Focus on what is in it for them. For example:
Rural:
Paved shoulders make it better for farm equipment and wide loads.
Paved shoulders make it better for disabled vehicles.
Paved shoulders take away hazardous shoulder drop-off.
Paved shoulders make it better for Amish wagons.
Paved shoulders make it easier to go around left turning vehicles.
Paved shoulders give more room to avoid an errant on-coming vehicle.
Madison folks bear with me on this...:
Bike lanes are good for temporary snow storage
Bike lanes are good for disabled vehicles
Bike lanes are good for handling water in heavy storms - keeping it out of car
lanes
Bike lanes give cars more room to maneuver
Bike lanes give cars more visibility for pedestrians stepping off curbs.
Bike paths get bikes off roads.
All reduce fatalities - a goal of WisDOT.
Biking is great for tourism in SW Wisconsin - Dodgeville, Mineral Point,
Potosi, Prairie du
Chien, etc.
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Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 08:04:44 -0500
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Bikies] Iowa Raises Gas Tax
And, bikes only pay 0% of the roads, right Mike? Give me an argument that I can
use to explain to motorists why they need to subsidize bikes.
Larry D Nelson, P.E.
PO Box 199
4180 Wilson Road
Dodgeville, WI 53533
608 630 6532
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From: William Hauda <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 18:44:12 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: [Bikies] Iowa Raises Gas Tax
Agree with Mike. Example: Fitchburg is going to reconstruct a mile or so
of Lacy Road and this will involve an assessment on property owners who
use this street to access their homes. At the same time, a better Lacy
Road will benefit both motorists and cyclists generally.
On 3/6/2015 5:25 PM, Michael Rewey wrote:
Motorists at most pay only 20% of local road costs, so why this picking on
bikes? As a
property tax payer I am aready subsidising streets.
Mike Rewey
On 5 Mar 2015 at 7:22, Larry D Nelson wrote:
If there was a state registration and registration fees (and wheel tax) for
bikes, our work
would be much easier. We would have a common relationship with the motorists,
who may
currently regard bicyclists as freeloaders.
Right now, all we can agree on is that we as individuals should not have to pay
for anything.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 5, 2015, at 1:22 AM, Jeffrey Schimpff <[email protected]> wrote:
I would much rather pay a higher registration fee for a bike that I use every
day of the
year, rather than for a car that sits in the garage most of the time. A wheel
tax is
regressive for those of us who do our best to conserve energy and use public
roadways
very little (aside from local streets, for which we pay in large part with
property taxes).
From: "William Hauda" <[email protected]>
To: "Eric Sundquist" <[email protected]>, "Larry Nelson"
<[email protected]>, "Matthew Logan" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2015 11:12:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Bikies] Iowa Raises Gas Tax
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sans-serif;
font-size: 16px;"> I have heard discussion among County Board members about
establishing a wheel tax and would favor it, based on that discussion and
Larry's info. A
$20 tax in Dane County would bring in between $4 million and $5 million -- not
nearly
what the RTA was looking at and small potatoes compared to big projects like
Verona
Road or Highway M, but definitely a part of the puzzle in growing the
multimodal system
in the county.
From: Larry Nelson <[email protected]>
To: Matthew Logan <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, March 3, 2015 5:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Bikies] Iowa Raises Gas Tax
Planning includes financing needed public transportation improvements. The
following
municipalities have adopted the wheel tax. Municipalities Appleton (city) - $20
beginning February 2015 Arena (township) - $20 beginning April 2015 Beloit
(city) - $10
through January 2015; $20 beginning February 2015 Janesville (city) - $10
Milwaukee
(city) - $20 Counties Chippewa County - $10 beginning January 2015
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