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What is needed are parking meters for bikes that they pay money to park, thus offsetting at least some costs of bicycle infrastructure. Current in street bike racks and Hubway stations foist more costs on taxpayers due to lost revenue. So, my invention idea is a paid meter that has a very...

Off topic, but interesting. I didn't know any of that. Thanks.

Fair enough, no conspiracies, only aligned interests, be it countries, corporations, or organizations. Shifting a manual is the least fun in the most appliance-like vehicles, much like bicycling is less fun in clunkers. Shifting a manual is work on congested streets, especially those redesigned...

Cars are just the popular evil enemy to suit political and other ambitions. It could be just as easily as Pol Pot blaming academics, Christian fundamentalists blaming Muslim fundamentalists for terrorism and oil prices. N. Vietnamese communists for threatening democracy across southeast Asia...

I answered before, but will do so again. State gas taxes can be used for roads other than just state highways. Arlington roads are funded with local property and excise tax along with Arlington's share of state gas taxes + some share of other tax revenues called Chapter 90 funds, based on miles...

AAA does cower after being abused out west about 10 years ago. Instead of representing motorists and getting demonized for it, they focus on offering various discounts. There is even a greenwashed towing insurance company donating to green causes as a promotional instrument. Bashing cars for...

I looked closer at this and its interesting in comparison that trip data to data showing how many bikes are in use: http://www.codeline-telemetry.com/maps/bos-depletion.htm What it demonstrates is recreational users take out a bike and use it for much longer than weekday commuters. The "trip"...

I claim data not supporting policy is mostly not produced, analyzed, and published. Hiding data is less common, say for HubWay vs Capitol bike share, and both don't want to expose how few unique riders per day or week there are "trips" looks so much better, much like claiming growth in bicycling...

I support building bike infrastructure where it makes sense in terms of cost and benefit. If there is little benefit, little cost is warranted. The cost can be money, safety, traffic congestion, productivity loss, fuel waste, and pollution increase. If there is surplus pavement without...

I googled "green transportation" and got about 124,000,000 search results. I then searched on "fuel waste from city congestion" and got 3,040,000 hits. US Treasury reports 1.9 Billion gallons of gas wasted due to traffic congestion...

There are two problems: 1. Who wants to fund a study? What industry profits from higher fuel efficiency? Who will lobby to get government to do the studies? Who will self-fund? The same green advocates who might rather discourage auto use, so they view extra hydrocarbon use as a cost for their...

Can you remind me with the post number for your question? I agree that inline skates, skateboards, and bicycles can shorten pedestrian trips, with the first two allowed to be brought into buildings and MBTA vehicles at any time. Automatic Transmission "...bikes are not viewed as "work" unlike...

I suggest you study physics. Energy to stop or start a pedestrian or bicyclist is far less than for a 400lb rider on moped, 600lb rider on motorcycle, 2,500lb driver in car, or 30,000 bus with some passengers. Pedestrians and cyclists won't be producing measurable green house gas by observing...

I meant that the advantage of trains disappeared with the invention and development of new means of travel that were yet faster (planes) and/or more flexible and direct (trucks, cars). A big advantage for trains is not making them yield of other travel modes. Motor vehicles and pedestrians stop...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Bus skip stops work well, especially when buses can easily pass one another. Hence, another reason travel lanes on roads should not be reduced to make bicycle-only lanes. Mass Ave in Arlington is an example of where removing the second outbound lane...

Re: Driven By Customer 'Service' Parte Dos Not everyone is yet leashed to the Internet or Smartphone. Inexpensive ($2-300 vs $10,000) information displays for use in public places have been demonstrated and really need to be deployed so nobody gets mad at the MBTA when an express flies by. A...

You neglect to see how revolutionary trains were in the latter half of the 1800s. Train trips were far: faster, more comfortable, and often cheaper than every other alternative - horse and wagon, ship, bicycle, walking. Cities without water transportation hardly existed prior to train transit...

People in public transit estimate they lose riders when they need to walk more than 0.25 mile. So, with bicycles, public transit stops could be reduced to 0.5 or 0.75 mile distances. This saves money which then could fund other transportation like cycling to maximize mobility per dollar.

Your's is a familiar argument too. I recall the weeks and months preceding the announcement of a new transportation mode that would be revolutionary, changing transportation forever - the SegWay. The same hype accompanies bicycling today with similar lackluster gains in the US. Its still a...

Two interesting things caught my eye: "The cycle superhighway, which opened in April, is the first of 26 routes scheduled to be built to encourage more people to commute to and from Copenhagen by bicycle. More bike path than the Interstate its name suggests, it is the brainchild of city planners...