[cripplecreek]

What exactly is a sustainable community?

Its when you take a 4 lane heavily traveled boulevard and make it two lanes for cars with a center turn lane and two lanes for the handful of bikes that go down it during the summer.

One of our local reporters did an informal count over 48 hours. He counted several thousand cars and 14 bicycles over two weekdays in August last year.

[reformedliberal]

When the DOT began a bypass around the two largest towns here, there was $1M appended for a bike path to go 15 miles along the highway past farmland between the two towns. Farmland was purchased to allow the bike path to be set away from the road. Only a few bicyclists wanted it. The main argument they used was :”They are handing out $1M, so we might as well take it.”

It will be interesting to see how many bikers use it.