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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. :-( <br><br>
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]<br><br>
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]<br><br>
At 10:56 AM 1/9/2008, JonIsaacs@aol.com wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font size=2>In a message dated
1/9/2008 9:44:38 AM Pacific Standard Time, serge@issakov.org
writes:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">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.
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Serge</blockquote><br><br>
It may be "expensive" to fix it but it needs fixing so I say:
Fix it. <br><br>
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...<br><br>
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. <br><br>
Jon</font></blockquote></body>
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