The elephants, as Eric calls them (in a future post that looks promising), have been calling the shots for too long with little alternative input or critique to counter-balance them.

That was the impetus for this website. I want to bring the cycling community to a level of awareness and confidence as cyclists that they can ask for stuff that truly benefits them and resist symbolic stuff that doesn’t.

Symbolic things divert money and political will away from solving real problems.

I’m serious, Laura. They don’t want to know what we (the users of what they design) think.

They want to to know what the elephants (as I call them in another post) think.”

What can I say, it’s a Don Quixote complex. Anyway, I brought it up as discussion here b/c I feel input from commuting cyclists is a good thing. I commend the City for wanting to improve conditions. But what I don’t want is the City to give up if someone criticizes their approach. During discussions, the City reps knew it was a very long shot to get FDOT to agree to the 10.5′ lanes. The resurfacing would go a long long way to improving things for cyclists and I think there are some good ideas in this thread. Food for thought for the powers that be anyway. All you really can do is get your comments on the record.

We have issues to deal with here. Stop hijacking our discussions with cycletrack propaganda.

CPH: “Precipitation is moderate throughout the year, and snowfall occurs mainly in December through March, but snow cover does not remain a long time.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen#Climate

ABE: “Snowfall is variable, with some winters bringing light snow and others bringing numerous significant snowstorms. Average snowfall is 82.3 centimetres (32.4 in) per year, with the months of January and February receiving the highest at just over 22.86 centimetres (9.00 in) each”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allentown,_Pennsylvania#Climate

Oh my 5 centimetres (cm) of snow that’s almost 2 inches of snow? That is some dusting! So how do get an average of over 32 inches of snow, it get’s cold and stays cold, Allentown’s January lows average −6 °C (21.2 °F) and highs average 1.3 °C (34.3 °F)

Finally, John wrote about:
“…riders who understand best practices and an environment which is consistent with best practices…”

I’ve been there, cycled that. In Holland. And saw and cycled for myself just why the USA has a bicycle death and injury rate 17 times as high as NL.

“The snow continues to fall in Copenhagen but the bicycles continue rolling.”

http://www.copenhagenize.com/2009/02/winter-rush-hour-in-copenhagen.html

“It’s been snowing for a few days now and all day today the city has been continually dusted with snow.

The bike lane snowploughs have been working overtime. You can hear them drone past late at night and they continue through the day. A fleet of small tractors are assisting them in keeping the bike lanes clear and salted.”

http://www.copenhagenize.com/2009/02/winter-bicycle-lanes-in-copenhagen.html

http://www.copenhagenize.com/2009/02/winter-commute.html

“In the city there was only about 8 cm but the snow continued falling…”

http://www.copenhagenize.com/2009/02/winter-cycling.html

http://www.copenhagenize.com/2009/02/keeping-flow-flowing.html