Re: [Mpls] Bike Racks and Paths
Thank you, Melissa. Amending the city code for bicycle parking is exactly what should be done. I use my two-wheeled wonder for 90 percent of my urban excursions. I have put 2000 miles on my odometer this year. But in my experience, the accommodation for bicycles in the Twin Cities is appalling. Every day, my life is threatened by some idiot behind the wheel. When I arrive at my destination, the city usually gives me the collective finger by providing no place to put my bicycle. The feeling I continually get from Minneapolis is that alternative transportation is not welcome and barely tolerated. I would like to live in a city that raises the bar even higher than what Melissa suggested. I would like Minneapolis to require that for every new or repaved parking space for cars, a business must install one parking slot for bicycles. Why should Minneapolis implement radical changes for transportation? Go outside and breathe the air. Observe the eerie red band around the entire horizon at sunset. Try to hold a conversation at the intersection of two major streets at 5:00. Try to implement pedestrian right-of-way in the face of snarling metal monstrosities -- often occupied by people who act like they cannot be delayed one second, because they must be in the diplomatic core and on their way to negotiate world peace. Slow down and get out of your car. Mark Knapp Kingfield --- Melissa Wyatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It seems to me that if we are required to allot a set number > of parking spaces for a business, the city could also put a > requirement for a minimum number of bicycle rack spaces into > code as well. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
[Mpls] Bike Racks;Bogus Labor Endorsement
I think if its a matter of getting them installed, two or three of the posts set in concrete would be sufficient. You can always stymie any action by considering how much a "nice" version of something costs. Bike riders lock their bikes to street signs every day. They don't insist on "nice" bike racks. In fact, I've locked my bike to a railing at the library. So government or whoever is managing a project should stop pricing out the most expensive unit and then saying "sorry we don't have that kind of money". Truth is if I found a thoroughly secured u-bolt coming out of the sidewalk, I'd lock my bike to it. So, in most cases this can be ULTRA-cheap! As for bike lanes and the danger of Franklin or Hennepin, I would STRONGLY suggest that bike riders seek out side streets. I personally consider it dumb to choose the busiest streets in town on which to do your bike riding. Why dodge SUVs any more than you have to? I don't know about that law that prohibits riding on the sidewalk, but I do know that about 80 or 90 percent of those laws are unenforced and meaningless. And if I had to WALK my bike to stay out of the way of an SUV, I'd do it. Sometimes at the busiest intersections, I just get off my bike and walk it in the crosswalks. Seems pretty strange to me that a rider would wear a helmet to save his head but dodge crazy SUVers which endangers far more than his head. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Re: "Labor Federation" Is this what you're taling about? http://www.gop-mn.org/labor/ Odd that they say they believe in not having dues used for political purposes, yet the organization EXISTS for political purposes. The home page says it is prepared by the Republican Party. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * = ___ Jim MorkCooper Neighborhood "Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of God"--Matthew 5:9 United for Peace http://www.unitedforpeace.org/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
[Mpls] Bike Racks and Paths
Downtown is woefully scant of bike racks. You would think they would be an obvious investment to go along with all of the bike lanes. Also, we need bike lanes ALL the way down Hennepin, down Lake, down Franklin and down Lyndale, especially here in Uptown. I'm sick of SUVs mowing me down because I have to share a lane with them. Uptown is HEAVY in bike traffic. It is against city law to bike on sidewalks, and just plain unsafe. -Mike Jones Uptown _ MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 3 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail&xAPID=42&PS=47575&PI=7324&DI=7474&SU= http://www.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsg&HL=1216hotmailtaglines_advancedjmf_3mf ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
[Mpls] Bike Racks
Target or no Target, subsidy or no subsidy, I think every block on the Mall should have a bike rack or two. That can't break the bank. Heck, let bikers do some creative brainstorming on financing solutions. We built I don't know how many public parking ramps for cars. Couldnt we spend a hundred-thousandth of that money to provide a place to lock a bike? = = Jim MorkCooper Neighborhood "Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of God"--Matthew 5:9 United for Peace http://www.unitedforpeace.org/ __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ___ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
