Re: Commuter innovation

On 3/28/2024 4:31 AM, Zen Cycle wrote:
<snip>

Good lord....you call _that_ "filled with debris"?

Frank tends to extrapolate conditions in his area to the rest of the world.
Sadly, the Youngstown Ohio area is ranked as #21 on the list of '50 worst American cities to live in' because of the loss of so much of the steel industry. Hence that area likely does not have a lot of money to pay for protected bike lanes or street sweeping if the roads there are only swept twice per year. In my city, streets are swept twice per month, or more often if requested because of debris.
In my city we have a very large fruit company that has donated a lot of money towards the construction of bike lanes because so many of their employees use bicycles to go between their buildings that are located throughout the city. One of their government affairs directors is a big cyclist and I've met with him multiple times. They are also going to provide space for a new bike shop in one of the new buildings they are constructing which is along a new planned multi-use trails.
--
“If you are not an expert on a subject, then your opinions about it really do matter less than the opinions of experts. It's not indoctrination nor elitism. It's just that you don't know as much as they do about the subject.”—Tin Foil Awards