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Livable, sustainable, bike-friendly communities

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  1. Kim
    Member

    A proposal for an unexpected source

    • Treat walking and bicycling as equals with other transportation modes
    • Ensure convenient access for people of all ages and abilities
    • Go beyond minimum design standards
    • Collect data on walking and biking trips
    • Set a mode share target for walking and bicycling
    • Protect sidewalks and shared-use paths the same way roadways are protected (for example, snow removal)
    • Improve nonmotorized facilities during maintenance projects

    Sounds like the sort of policies you would get from a liberal neo-socialist European country, but no just look at the spellings (this was cut and pasted) from the official blog of the US Secretary of Transportation.

    Can we expect to this sort of thing in a Manifesto landing on our door step any time soon?

    Posted 14 years ago #

  2. TwoWheels
    Member

    Being a 'merkin, I can intelligibly propound on this subject. As in Scotland, various luminaries are constantly propounding guidelines, goals and multi-faceted objectives without anyone going to the bother of actually taking them seriously.

    The day that pedestrians and cyclists are elevated to equality with automobiles on the road in the U.S.A. will be the day our entire edifice of individual freedom crumbles and falls to the ground like a paper-mache statue of Saddam Hussein.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  3. Kim
    Member

    Roll on peek oil!

    Posted 14 years ago #

  4. chdot
    Admin

    "peek oil"

    Is that a typo or are you referring to THIS!!!

    Posted 14 years ago #

  5. SRD
    Moderator

    Just so that we are not accused of parodying American culture too ruthlessly (something I am _never_ guilty of ;)...I notice that no one has responded to my post about the prevalence in US and Canada of membership co-ops from which cycling and other outdoor gear can be purchased, in contrast to the rather more profit-oriented industry over here. We miss REI and Mountain Equip Coop a lot!

    They also do good lines in ethical clothing, and excellent kids winter-coats that are actually waterproof, kids boots that have linings and stuff like that. Not necessarily cheap (although the £ goes a long way), but durable, and the sales can be brilliant.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  6. wee folding bike
    Member

    There is a Go Outdoors in Coatbridge which offers a discount card.

    I just had a keek at their web page and it looks like they stock Craghopper pants so I might go and see the real shop.

    Posted 14 years ago #

  7. cb
    Member

    Go Outdoors to open in Edinburgh

    Posted 14 years ago #

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