BIKE: Brooking report Spam!?

[David Dobbs]

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At 22:00 -0500 6/20/04, Stan Douglas wrote:
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> That last piece of posting had something to do with biking in 
>Austin? Get the hell out with the political spam




As one who rides 50 to 60 miles a week average on Austin streets, I 
consider my bicycle transportation.  I have an excellent car whose 
air conditioning works well and which averages 25 miles on a gallon, 
despite being 15 years old, but for most of what I do, my bike and 
Cap Met buses are a winning transportation combination.

That said, it is a fact that pedestrians, bicycles, and public 
transportation generally mix fairly well. Where the investment in 
public transportation is high and connections are well planned, a 
positive synergism reinforces each mode on human scale, whereas the 
auto/roadway system, where we spend the overwhelming amount of our 
public transportation dollars, is nearly always an infringement on 
other modes, frequently to the point of making them irrelevant or 
impossible.  Automobiles have and are continuing to destroy our bike 
friendly urban environments while fostering new suburbs that are very 
hostile to cycling.

As Socrates in The Republic points out, all things are political the 
minute two or more people begin to interact.  Who gets what when and 
where, if  at all, and that includes improved bicycle facilities are 
unavoidably political matters.  Understanding what public policy is 
vis-a-vis transportation and what steps might be taken to improve it 
have been the subject of many a post on this list and rightfully so. 
If I read the majority of postings to this list correctly, public 
policy is terribly important to most cyclists, and commentary in this 
area is neither "bulk" nor unsolicited.

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Dave Dobbs

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