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Boston transportation infrastructure - cycling?

By Anonymous on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 2:39am

Virtually all children in this country arrive at school by bike. So do their teachers, and the parents. Wonderful cycle paths make this possible as you can see in this video of a new housing estate in Assen.

Would you vote to have some of the $750 Billion economic recovery dollars spent building transportation infrastructure for cycling as a way of traveling on local trips in Boston?

(Thanks to David Hembrow of Assen, Netherlands for the video.)

Neighborhoods: 
Boston
Topics: 
Driving
Free tagging: 
Bicycling


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Comments

By Brett on Wed, 01/07/2009 - 1:33pm.

...which is why you see Mumbles and others championing the whole bullshit "rental" model instead of dropping money on bike lockups.

Also, bikes interrupt the revenue stream of the state and local government. They don't:


  • pay gas tax (42 cents, or at the moment- about a 30% tax!)
  • get parking tickets ($25-50)
  • get speeding tickets ($50->)
  • feed parking meters
  • need $50 drivers licenses
  • need $30 inspections
  • need $50 registration
  • have excise tax
  • get taxed much on the sale end (bought used often, easily brought in from out-of-state)

Why, bikes are COMMUNISM, people!

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By independentminded on Thu, 01/08/2009 - 8:18am.

This:

Why, bikes are COMMUNISM, people!

is making me LOL! Thanks for the morning chuckles.

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