your town ready for walking/biking?

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concretejungle

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I was noticing today as i expensively drove around town that most of my area is not ready for walkers and bikers. What i mean is there are very few sidewalks. Most folks are having to walk/ride through people's yards. This makes getting around town more difficult if you are not driving.

I know that they are trying to change that. Almost all new construction coming out of the ground now has sidewalks in place.

I wonder if they will start making people put sidewalks in? I wonder if the city/state will pay for that or if the property owner will be forced to foot the bill?

also have noted that more and more idiots are riding scooters and mopeds. This is bad news as the related deaths and injuries for these things is on the rise. I guess people who can't even ride a bike thinks they will just jump on one and scoot around town :rolleyes:

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We have two roads with designated cycling lanes. It is stupid. One is a major North/South route through Alamosa, the other is a short East/West route that ends at the college. They missed the major East/West route that goes out farther and would have made more sense.

Walking is easy in Alamosa, and for the most part cycling is ok.
 
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Yep. Lots of bike paths, "ride your bike to work days", bike races through and around town etc.

Quite annoying too when trying to negotiate turns in the Chevy with bikes everywhere.
 
Lots of sidewalks here. :D

We need way more bike lanes though.
 
I reckon the liberals in Chapel Hill must have known this was coming (energy issues) as nowhere else in NC, to my knowledge, is as prepared for leg power.


Though leg power, etc is popular around Asheville too. More liberals...
 
We have a pretty decent run of sidewalks, at least in the older neighborhoods. They are just working on dedicted paths between the various parks through town. Biggest issue with our sidewalks is you about need a mountainbike to traverse some of them. My sidewalk could make a Tennesee walking horse stumble.
 
LukeO said:
Though leg power, etc is popular around Asheville too. More liberals...
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Tis true, but i bet it has to do more with being in the mountains with tons of trails and a lot more bikers.

We need to get our act together here in the triad. We are behind. I just saw a bus for the first time EVER here in the triad that had a bike rack on the front of it.

Kind of sucks. If i really truly wanted to ride a bike to work i would have to ride on the road. :crybaby::o
 
I am a mountain biking liberal. who can wheel, hunt, shoot, fish, and wrench, and weld, with the best of them. I wish we had more trails to get around town on, I road my bike to work for the first time the other day 17 miles each way in vegas,not fun. I road down some railroad tracks for most of it after almost being ran over for the 4th time. my 60 as my dd is getting a bit pricey and my 79 3/4 ton chevy is much worse. I had a wr450 and sold it when gas was $2.00 now that its over $4.00 i just might get the dual sport. 70mpg sounds good to me. if that makes me a liberal than so be it. oh ya and when I lived in reno they put in a sidwalk in front of my house I had an acre if they took the 4' off my yard in vegas i wouldnt have one. the city paid for it.
 
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OK, I live *out there.* 7 miles from the nearest grocery store, more than that to the nearest stoplight.... You can easily bike around here.

But in my line of work I travel a LOT, and never have a car there. I basically fly in, ride a shuttle to a hotel and then have to fend for myself. So I have tried to walk around most every part of the country (because have you ever tried hotel food!?!!?), and I can say, without a doubt that the midwest is in serious trouble.

Ever seen crosswalks with no sidewalks that connect to them? How about large business parks without a single sidewalk?

It's absolutely amazing to me how difficult it can be to walk around in many of our urban centers. Downtown is usually good, but you don't have to go too far before there is simply noplace for a pedestrian to walk. That's right St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Houston--I'm talking to you (and more). They could learn a lot from the likes of Wichita, Rapid City, Missoula, Spokane, etc....

But the highway dollars to install a crosswalk without a single sidewalk connecting to it simply blows me away...

Dan
 
people in my town have yet to learn how to drive :rolleyes:, and now you want to take their cars away :confused:
 
You've got it backwards there.

Try getting on a bike, then tell us how it feels.

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They feel like they own the road, and don't have to follow the laws because they are on a bike.
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whoa, Baton Rouge is ranked 70th for biking ? - I really can't see why other than it's flat :rolleyes:
 
DanS HJ-45 said:
That's right St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Houston--I'm talking to you (and more)

Dan
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Wow, i worked for a month in Pittsburgh and was blown away at how many people walk/bike to work and around. Seemed to me like it was much more ready for foot/pedal power than my area. I stayed on the other side of the river (southside with all the bars) and walked over the bridge to the mellon center every day. It was not a bad walk at all. Sidewalks the whole way.
 
DSRTRDR said:
people in my town have yet to learn how to drive :rolleyes:, and now you want to take their cars away :confused:
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:confused: So they cant drive and you want them to keep their cars? Your logic sucks.
 
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