On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 9:58 AM, PATRICK MOORE wrote:
> Is it the peculiar Dutch cycling infrastructure that causes more cycling in
> The Netherlands, or vice versa? Do Denmark and Germany have such
> infrastructure?
Neither Denmark nor Germany has nearly the same quality of cycling
infrastructur
Again jealous of a community that doesn't outright hate cyclists like they
do here in NYC. I am not a Bloomberg fan but he has done alot for cycling
in our community here and he is hated for it. The issue is that everyone
here is so incredibly important that the thought of them being
inconvenience
I think there is a symbiotic relationship between the growth of cycling and
infrastructure. Over the past 40 years, the number of cyclists has grown
making municipalities look at including them into the traffic
infrastructure which in turn encourages more to take up cycling, etc, etc.
Here in
Is it the peculiar Dutch cycling infrastructure that causes more cycling in
The Netherlands, or vice versa? Do Denmark and Germany have such
infrastructure?
Not being snarky, but I rather suspect that the main criterion for cycling
growth is the number of cyclists.
At any rate, the Economist was
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:57 PM, PATRICK MOORE wrote:
> And in the US and in London.
>
> http://www.economist.com/node/21562252
>From the first article:
"Yet while the future looks bright, America will struggle to catch up
with northern Europe, where the proportion of local trips done by bike
ca
Almost daily I see more and more old guys like me out doing the same thing I'm
doing on a bike...running errands and just using a bike for getting around.
This is something I hardly saw 10 to 15 years ago, there were very few of us
riding for transportation let alone year around. Each time i ri
Long Beach, CA seems to be getting a lot of attention for it's bike
infrastructure commitment. It's a medium sized city, similar to MLPS.
Approximately half a million people, but is in the middle of the Greater LA
megalopolis. Year round fantastic weather.
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 7:03 AM, Addison
Yes, I think smaller/midsized cities are really poised to reap benefits
from cycling infrastructure if the people/cyclists can advocate and exert
pressure (and elect people) who are willing to create better places to
cycle. That is what we are seeing in Reno anyway. There have been
hiccups along
I think that in smaller cities and towns, the cycling infrastructure is
more universally seen as a positive quality of life enhancement. Here in
Minneapolis, I don't believe an anti-bike mayoral candidate could get
elected in the foreseeable future. Gas hit $4 here today, by the way...
On Satur
The issue with these initiatives is that they alot of them are not set in
stone. I am afraid here in NYC all the progress we have made can be
unraveled in a few years by some short sighted politicians who want to take
us back to the Robert Moses years. We already have Bill Deblasio stating
that Blo
I'm a working father of 3, commuting by bike year-round in fair-weather
Minneapolis (almost no snow last year!). I agree that Portland has more
"bike culture", but we have them beat with infrastructure (we have more
trails, they have more bike boulevards).
On Thursday, September 13, 2012 5:58:
Slow and steady.
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Tim McNamara wrote:
>
> On Sep 13, 2012, at 5:58 AM, Robert Zeidler wrote:
>
>> Portland is the obvious leader in terms of infrastructure, and adoption of
>> the cycling culture, in terms of alternative transportation.
>>
>> That said, it's
On Sep 13, 2012, at 5:58 AM, Robert Zeidler wrote:
> Portland is the obvious leader in terms of infrastructure, and adoption of
> the cycling culture, in terms of alternative transportation.
>
> That said, it's economy is so-so, compared with Minneapolis or D.C. These
> will have to be the p
Portland is the obvious leader in terms of infrastructure, and adoption of the
cycling culture, in terms of alternative transportation.
That said, it's economy is so-so, compared with Minneapolis or D.C. These will
have to be the places where this total integration is showcased for people to
And in the US and in London.
http://www.economist.com/node/21562252
http://www.economist.com/blogs/blighty/2012/08/cycling-london
http://www.economist.com/node/21556970
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