[SDCBC] Fwd: UT Mid City Transit Article Saturday - What does pla nning f...

[JonIsaacs at aol.com]

Hello to all:

Jim Baross reminded us that this is a cycling forum:

"Gentlemen:
I am not disinterested in this area of transportation issues, but it has 
drifted away from bicycling, right?

Please consider that this forum is for bicycling information and discussions. 
I suggest and request that you consider responding among each other about 
transit discussions and/or relate your discourse on the SDCBC list-server to 
bicycling.... or find and/or start a San Diego transit discussion group."

Gale made the following comment:

"To specifically answer your question "Then exactly what does it depend 
upon?", the answer is "parking".  It depends on when parking for all the vehicles 
becomes an issue."

To which I respond with a cycling specific answer:

Parking costs and limited availability were a major part of my decision to 
turn in my  UCSD parking permit and cycle to work 5 days a week.   I think it 
was more the lack of nearby parking more than the cost but in the ~18 years 
since I made the change I figure I have saved about $15,000 in parking permit 
costs alone.  

Another practical advantage of cycling was the predictablity, I could count 
on the fact that I could make the trip from Encinitas to my office at UCSD in 
40-50 minutes regardless of the traffic situation.  In my car, when traffic was 
light, I could make the same trip in 20-25 minutes but even back then on a 
Friday or during the Del Mar Fair/Racing season, the car traffic would be 
stopped on NB 101 from the from Carmel Valley up to the top of Torrey Pines grade 
and that could take 45 minutes by itself with the entire commute taking over an 
hour.  

I believe that when it is easier to ride a bike somewhere than it is to drive 
a car in traffic and find parking, then people naturally make that same 
decision I did.  In terms of cost effectiveness, dependability and easy resolution 
of parking costs/availibility cycling and walking certainly seems to have all 
other choices beat....

Jon "keeping the focus here on cycling" Isaacs



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