My city took out car lanes and drew in "bike paths" - the result? Crowded streets and NO BIKE TRAFFIC.
I'm sure the liberals in Washington will still be taking their limos to the airports to fly their private jets while the people are forced to ride in Obama deathmobiles.
opportunities for housing, walking paths, biking paths, said Lahood. If somebody wants to ride their bike, if--to work or to the place of employment or to other places--mass transit, light rail--creating opportunities for what we call livable communities
in no way a federal issue, but really not a bad idea if cities or states want to expand mass transit (to meet demand without financial loss), or build bike paths. Leaving rural areas asice, I'd ride a bike more if there were bike lanes, and I'd LOVE to be able to drive my high gas mileage ATV on the streets like the police and parking enforcement folk do, rather than my gas guzzling truck. But in the liberal mind, an idea which might be credible on a local level, but would rely on individual choice, morphs to
...coerce people out of their cars