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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe if bike lanes didn’t have little white poles and concrete dividers from the street, it’d be easy to plow. Or you could make the homeowners and business owners alongside bike trails clear them like a sidewalk—of course no sane homeowner would ever support bike lanes after shoveling even more snow.

DMV has inflexible infrastructure that creates huge bottlenecks. Parklets, dining areas, bike racks take up too much road space. [/quote]

Amen. We must suffer for an entitled superminority who thinks the world should bend to meet their needs. Take public transportation. [/quote]

It is amazing how much of the public's time, energy and money is consumed by a tiny number of middle age white guys who demand the government subsidize their hobby. [/quote]

Another canard. It's the middle aged white guys driving in cars alone who don't pay their own way and are subsidized by general taxation. Those who opt to bike instead of drive, reduce road maintenance costs, reduce insurance premiums, reduce road congestion, reduce various costs arising from fatal or otherwise serious accidents and the various cardiovascular illnesses that arise from being stuck in gridlock every morning and evening, and reduce the carbon emissions that give rise to the kind of insane weather we're currently experiencing. Hence the reason why bike lanes exist. If you really don't understand the concept of positive and negative externalities, please go find a video on YouTube that explains it to you. [/quote]

Talk about canards!

1. Not very many people bicycle and probably most of them don't own cars, so them bicycling has a negligible impact on the total number of drivers on the road
2. Bike increase increase congestion because there's less space for cars to drive
3. Increasing congestion means cars sit in traffic longer, which means more greenhouse gases
4. Medical and insurance costs are higher when people ride bikes, scooters, e-bikes, etc. because when they're in accidents, it's bad. Ask an emergency room doctor. 
5. The effects on cardiovascular disease are unknowable. Bicycling is not very strenuous exercise and just because people drive doesn't mean they're not in good shape. People do go to gyms, you know, where they do exercise that is actually strenuous
6. Cars are harder on the road, but drivers pay for them through an incredible assortment of fees. Bicycling infrastructure costs billions of dollars, and bicyclists do not pay any special fees towards its cost. [/quote]

I love #3. Your argument is that we should make driving easier to reduce greenhouse gasses. Just brilliant. You are a very smart person and clearly quite learned.[/quote]

Cars burn more fuel when they're stopping and starting, and when they're idling, they're producing greenhouse gases even though they're not moving. So, yeah. Take it up with science. [/quote]

It's your decision to drive or not. Stop blaming greenhouse gas emissions on anything that gets in the way. Or perhaps you'd like a personal freeway between your house and everywhere you may choose to go. For the environment.[/quote]

Sounds like you're conceding the point. [/quote]

You're right, I'll get started building that freeway for you, your royal highness.  :lol: [/quote]

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