Comments on: NYC: Broadway Bike Lane http://bikeprovidence.org/2008/07/11/nyc-broadway-bike-lane Providence Bicycle Coalition (PBC) Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:30:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Alan Barta http://bikeprovidence.org/2008/07/11/nyc-broadway-bike-lane#comment-1210 Alan Barta Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:54:00 +0000 http://bikeprovidence.org/?p=223#comment-1210 "We have to take what we can get" NYC's Great way, Broadway, is a far cry from Providence's Broadway, wide, poorly kept, unlined boulevard promised to contain bike lanes for 5 years by a lipservice administration. At $4.15 per gallon of gasoline, the few thousand or so it would take to paint bike lanes, that would encourage fueless commuting, would return its investment almost immediately, plus make room in downtown garages for shoppers, plus curb air pollution, plus tie in potential elements of the ECGS thorugh Olneyville. Is there any downside? Hard pressed to see any, except this might be a precedent where something stuck on the bottom of the priority pile might rise naturally to the top. Can't have that! Might bring criticism for the BLATANT NEGLLIGENCE of not having down anything about allternative transportation or urban planning until the crisis is allready upon us. “We have to take what we can get”
NYC’s Great way, Broadway, is a far cry from Providence’s Broadway, wide, poorly kept, unlined boulevard promised to contain bike lanes for 5 years by a lipservice administration. At $4.15 per gallon of gasoline, the few thousand or so it would take to paint bike lanes, that would encourage fueless commuting, would return its investment almost immediately, plus make room in downtown garages for shoppers, plus curb air pollution, plus tie in potential elements of the ECGS thorugh Olneyville. Is there any downside? Hard pressed to see any, except this might be a precedent where something stuck on the bottom of the priority pile might rise naturally to the top. Can’t have that! Might bring criticism for the BLATANT NEGLLIGENCE of not having down anything about allternative transportation or urban planning until the crisis is allready upon us.

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