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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

Eleanors38

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6. The way to change:

Reply to kestrel91316 (Reply #5)

Tue May 7, 2013, 09:07 PM

May 2013

Dedicated bike thoroughfares set up like "freeways" where bicycles are the only vehicles. And conversion of some existing auto roadways into alternative transportation corridors. Duffers like me who would never be in the spandex ballet will only use roads & routes which bar motorized traffic.

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Top 20 Bike Cities Span Four Continents, But Not U.S.A [View all] marmar May 2013 OP

I rode a bicycle around Munich. roody May 2013 #1

I rode a bicycle in the Loire River Valley; it was one of the most beautiful experiences patrice May 2013 #2

I am headed to work today on my bike. In Los Angeles. kestrel91316 May 2013 #3

Using a "bike lane" on a major Austin thoroughfare reminds me of an old shooting gallery... Eleanors38 May 2013 #4

Bike lanes are as rare as hen's teeth here. We DO have plenty of "bike paths" in areas of no value kestrel91316 May 2013 #5

The way to change: Eleanors38 May 2013 #6