your town ready for walking/biking?
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crholliday
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The criterion are on the 2nd page:
http://www.apma.org/s_apma/bin.asp?CID=251&DID=22712&DOC=FILE.PDF
crholliday
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The bottom of the barrel is now present and accounted for.
Lots of sidewalks here.
We need way more bike lanes though.
Bike lanes
It's too bad that sidewalks (in many places) are minimal and considered a "liberal" issue.
Besides the latest "gas crisis" they have so many other benefits: exercise, safety,
getting to know your community, and gas savings.
I never thought as much about them until I moved to the rural suburbs and had kids.
I was working on starting a Sidewalk Committee and it was damn near impossible to get anyone interested.
I moved back closer to the city and it's great to have sidewalks and bike lanes/path everywhere.
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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.
I'm up off Falls of the Neuse by the lake. No way I'm riding on the road, I don't even like running along the side these days (another reason I trail run every day). A buddy's wife got nailed on her road bike a couple years ago (in the country no less) and the laws of physics would guaratee my demise given the same circumstances. She was extremely lucky.
I have seen bikes on the front of buses too. Only not being ridden by those making a conscious effort to curb consumption. However there is a collective of a bicycle cult downtown spreading the good word.
Could you imagine? Phone call with clients..."Yeah, we'll have to pick the bus up at 5 pm to our first destination then bus B from there"...
If we had the resources I would invest in the now trendy "hybrids", but mostly for marketing/advertising purposes given my familial needs (it would be useless).
Change for the better is always slow and resisted.
I used to ride quite a bit and take my cycling seriously (read my sig), but people around here drive like FxxxING ASSHOLES 
around cyclists, so I don't ride nearly as much as I used too.
around cyclists, so I don't ride nearly as much as I used too.
crholliday
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I used to ride quite a bit and take my cycling seriously (read my sig), but people around here drive like FxxxING ASSHOLES
Virginia and Central/North Florida are the two worst places to ride a bike on the road in the US. I feel for you.
I call BS on that report
almost everyone of those in NJ are hellholes . It looks like a list of best places where to get mugged/raped/killed or a combo of said items .
Now that I think some more
Well yeah its some of the best places to walk , since your s*** was stolen/carjacked from you while there .
almost everyone of those in NJ are hellholes . It looks like a list of best places where to get mugged/raped/killed or a combo of said items .
Now that I think some more
Well yeah its some of the best places to walk , since your s*** was stolen/carjacked from you while there .
I road on the Maryland side in and area bounded by Beltsville, Lowel, Columbia, Frederick , and the Patomic river and found it OK. Not to much issues with drivers. What was interesting is I found NYC to be safer. Less issues with drivers, etc.. Living and working up in the Boston area scarred me off the bike. The area around Chelmsford was positively deadly. A combination of bad roads and very bad driving skills.
Tell me about it...I was stationed in Panama City! I went fron Whidbey Is, WA to P.C. and got stuck on the east coast when I got married. WTF was I THINKING????
whoa, Baton Rouge is ranked 70th for biking ? - I really can't see why other than it's flat
That must take the college students at LSU into account. Won't bike tires melt on the asphalt in BR during the summer?
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
Who gets to foot the liability?
In the good ol days, Orange County California, was still somewhat rural, and we had bike lanes everywhere, almost every major street and we all road our bikes or walked to school safely. They have removed 90% and replaced with more traffic lanes becuase everyone moved to SoCal. They try to make you feel good by putting a bike lane next to a river bed, or on old railroad right of way, which helps jack shi.......t since they go nowhere near where a person works and then are jammed up on a weekend I don't let my girls out of our housing track, or myself , since it very likely to be hit or drift into traffic. I would very much like to bike to work, but would like to come home each day. Only one positive, is I can ride my bike directly to the beach 26mi one way along the river, without crossing a road.