[Sherman Logan]

In many newer suburban areas, each little subdivision is its own little world, one from which you cannot get to any other.

So you can’t travel any distance except on the main roads.

This could easily be solved simply by mandating each subdivision connect to the adjacent ones with a sidewalk, not a street. Cars are still restricted from taking shortcuts through the neighborhood, but pedestrians and cyclists can get around without riding the highway.

[cripplecreek]

This could easily be solved simply by mandating each subdivision connect to the adjacent ones with a sidewalk, not a street. Cars are still restricted from taking shortcuts through the neighborhood, but pedestrians and cyclists can get around without riding the highway.

I wouldn't mandate it but if the local communities want to pay for it, I'm fine with it as long as they use local funds to pay for it.

This country will never get out of this hole if everybody thinks their personal convenience of choice should be paid for by everyone. Keep taxes and services as local as possible and if the people of one town wants to pay for them, then they'll vote to pay for them. States and counties should pay for their own roads outside the interstate highway system.

[sphinx]

This could easily be solved simply by mandating each subdivision connect to the adjacent ones with a sidewalk, not a street. Cars are still restricted from taking shortcuts through the neighborhood, but pedestrians and cyclists can get around without riding the highway

I agree. Heck, in Northern Virginia, the blasted parking lots don't connect to each other. You have to get back on the blankety-blank highway, jammed and stalled, to get from the Arby's to the gas station next door.

I sometimes think the real reason suburbanites don't like bicyclists is that the cyclists go zipping by while the lard-butts in their cars are wasting most of the day sitting in traffic. It's resentment, pure and simple.