[MediaAnalyst]

You are a sicko!!!

Don't you know that the MSM has totally discredited that idea. Imagine, we now have more cars on the road, so nutcases like yourself suggest added capacity. That is sick. Don't you understand that we're in a new paradigm now.

In today's America, when you need more electricity you go to Oregon and breach dams. In today's America when 19 Muzzies take over airplanes and fly them into buildings, you invite their leaders to the White House. Therefore in today's America, when there are too many cars on the road, you build bicycle paths.

Now apologize to all of the other FReepers. Repent.

[dufekin]

Oh, I have no problem with building bike paths, and if the layout of the community and the climate makes bicycling a viable alternative through much of the year for many commuters, then they might compose part of the infrastructure necessary to satiate demand. In most American cities, however, bicycle paths at best provide recreation and exercise opportunities for otherwise obese citizens.

The necessary transportation infrastructure in many American cities involves bridges and development of new corridors as much as widening existing roads or constructing freeways roughly parallel to existing corridors. Many state departments of transportation lack the imagination to envision such new roads.