BIKE: Sidewalks and Bicycle Facilities

[Mike Dahmus]

Joel Sumner wrote:

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> On Apr 17, 2004, at 9:34 AM, Andrew Wimsatt wrote:
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>> Sidewalks and Pedestrian Elements
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>> ... typically ...
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>>  ...are most justified ...
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>> ...it may be ...
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>> Early consideration ... may also...
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> I read that as "you're free to ignore any of this".  Given the 
> concrete on the ground, it looks like TxDOT does too.  After all, that 
> 60 million dollars of our tax money that just went for four miles of 
> highway on US 183 has no sidewalks. I'm sure that would have really 
> ballooned the cost, right?  I guess pedestrians fell on the wrong side 
> of "it may be" and "typically".


Yes, very good point. And the 2010 TIP will probably include $10 million 
in Federal gas tax money (with a 20% match from city-of-Austin 
property-tax-dollars) to pay for retrofitting sidewalks along that whole 
stretch, when it would have cost perhaps $100,000 to do it now. And 
CAMPO will congratulate themselves for spending 15% (of that one 
category) on bike/ped projects.

- MD