Here is the GOP mayor of my hometown on the subject, FWIW:
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard rounded out the morning, presenting another
Midwestern Republican’s view, this time from the local level.
Ballard said he liked biking but he’s increasing the city’s bike network from
one mile of bike lanes (“what does that connect to?”) to 200 for a very
different reason: to attract talent.
That, he said, is his real job as mayor: to attract talented young people to
Indianapolis to grow the economy. “I have to create the kind of city that
attracts talent,” he said. “Because we’re all in competition for the young
talent that’s out there. Putting in bike lanes and trails is part of that
attraction of talent. If we don’t do that, we’re going to get run over.”
“The young people, the millennials… are looking for bike lanes, they’re looking
for trails, they’re looking for connectivity, they’re looking for multimodal
transportation,” he said. “And that’s what we’re trying to do.”
In 2008, Ballard created the city’s first Office of Sustainability ever.
They’re bringing bike-share to the city. And to encouraging bike commuting,
they created a city bike hub where people could change clothes and shower
downtown before walking to work. Ballard said he “micromanaged” the locker
selection to be as good as the ones the Indianapolis Colts have in their locker
room, big enough to fit enough suits for the whole week.
Of course, some people liked things the old way, Ballard said, but that’s not
the way of the future. “Some lady said, ‘When I drive next to those bike lanes,
I have to slow down.’ I said, ‘Exactly. Now you’re getting it.’”Link: Congress
Comes to the Bike Summit (and the Bike Summit Goes to Congress) | Streetsblog
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From: Larry Nelson <[email protected]>
To: Michael Rewey <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, March 7, 2015 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Bikies] Iowa Raises Gas Tax
That I can use.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Rewey" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, March 7, 2015 10:59:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Bikies] Iowa Raises Gas Tax
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
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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
> > &nbs font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida
> > Grande,
> > sans-serif;font-size:16px" data-mce-style="color: #000; background-color:
> > #fff; font-
> > family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande,
> > 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
> > [email protected]
> > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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