[SDCBC] Well it looks like I am not the only one...

[Jim Baross]

I hope I'm not getting complacent or just too tired of the 
same-ol/same-ol inadequate approach to providing adequately (or at 
all) for non-motorized/sustainable transportation/bicycling. Building 
the required Bike Path/MUP w/o providing for reasonable, not just 
one-sided, access was/is short-sighted to say the least! I'm 
wondering why the funding for appropriate design and construction and 
maintenance wasn't/isn't included in the original (Caltrans?) 
effort.... well, yes, I guess I don't have to wonder; providing for 
bicycling or walking is an afterthought if a thought at all. :-(

There does seem to be some real efforts by at least some Caltrans 
staff to support bicycling and walking - pushed by CBC and other 
advocates... but it's a long road uphill against the predominant 
winds of considering bicycles as toys, bicycling as discretionary 
recreation, and operation of a bicycle in traffic as dangerous when 
the REAL DANGER comes from inappropriate operation of motor vehicles. 
[end of rant]

Shouldn't bicycling and walking and transit be the preferred 
transportation mode for a government and people concerned with the 
negative impacts from over reliance on motor vehicles for getting 
around; instead funding for comfort, speed and prestige of motor 
vehicle travel is beating out rational travel mode choices...? 
[another end of rant]

At 10:56 AM 1/9/2008, JonIsaacs at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 1/9/2008 9:44:38 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
>serge at issakov.org writes:
>
>>Yeah, it's a hassle to get on/off the path to/from n/b El Camino 
>>Real, but I'm not sure it's worth $250K to fix it.  The fact that 
>>what is essentially a narrow driveway a few dozen feet in length 
>>costs a quarter of a million dollars to pave is what is the real 
>>problem here.  I wonder how much of that is actual cost of doing 
>>the work, versus hidden costs of bureaucracy.
>>
>>Serge
>
>
>It may be "expensive" to fix it but it needs fixing so I say: Fix it.
>
>In the big picture, $250K is peanuts, I wonder how much the recent 
>work on the I-5/805 Merge cost...  And all so the developers can 
>build more houses in North County...
>
>As cyclists, we should not be afraid to spend to bring the 
>facilities up to standard,  we need to think we have a place and 
>money spent on cycling facilities is money well spent.
>
>Jon

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