A recent report by none other than the conservative economic bastion of the Wall Street Journal is finding a hugh jump in bicycle sales in England. The reason for this jump? Bicycles are a cheap, health, fast way of commuting for most workers.
Sounds like more bicycle infrastructure would help put more money in our pockets, no?
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on Oct 24th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Is the implication, calliing the WSJ conservative, that conservatives don’t ride bikes, aren’t concerned about the environment, don’t bother with fitness, or all of the above? Be careful with labels.
I generally back the idea of additional bicycle infrastructure, but I will not sign the petition as long as as it asks for (2) government employees for ‘outreach’. Create a volunteer task force, like the Street Closure Task Force.
Work it in a private-public mode, and you will probably have more support, and less resistance.
on Oct 24th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
The Street Smarts Task Force advocated hiring the staff in accordance with the best practices of other cities where this stuff actually works, and we agree.
That the Wall Street Journal is reporting on this just proves that ideas about improving pedestrian, transit, and cycling infrastructure are becoming mainstream and pervasive, and no longer fringe.