Interesting. My copy says “To establish Post Offices and post Roads”
I think BIKE trails, HO or otherwise, let alone TOLL BIKE TRAIL(s), is a far stretch from those enumerated powers.
IMO, it’s ‘funny’ how ‘Conservative’ those on this board get when it comes to something THEY utilize/champion...right out the F* window. Odd, isn’t it?
If they use the bike path to deliver mail, it qualifies.
Over the last two or three years our local city and county governments have been re-striping the local roads to create bicycle paths.
They have covered, painted over, or removed the old white and yellow lane stripes and painted new stripes that narrowed the passenger lanes and made space for a bicycle lane. Some of the highways they reworked are 3 and 4 lanes per side, plus exits, turn lanes, etc.
This area is not big bicycle country - especially on the highways. On most of the roads you will never see a bicycle rider, on some of the others you may see one a day.
In my opinion a person would have to be insane or have a death wish to bicycle on the major multi-lane, high speed, high traffic roads that were re-striped. That is probably why they don't do it.
Imagine the large waste of tax dollars to do this work that, at best, accomodates a few while inconveniencing the many. And how many other municipalities and counties are wating tax dollars doing the same thing?
What the government has actually done is remove millions of dollars worth of roadway from use by the people who paid for it and reserved the space for bicycalists. Many thousands of motorists are now crammed into smaller lanes while they speed by the vacant space reserved for the rare bicyclist.