http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/politics/51810687-90/east-bike-greenway-medians.html.csp
Oh how predictable the negative people are. Its going to kill small business, increase traffic we don't have any money. People see more of there surroundings on bike and on foot - do they know that ? Have these people ever gotten out of there car? Existing customers are still going to go to your store, and you will get more pop-in's if people are walking or biking. I don't care if it increases traffic, sorry if it takes 5 more minutes to get to where your going. The reality is that SLC has more lanes of travel then really needed compared to many other places, we don't need more lanes just for the half-en hour of traffic in the morning and afternoon. Oh and the traffic isn't bad at all! Try driving in Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, LA and the many other places in the nation that I haven't driven in but have bad traffic like Chicago, Atlanta, New York City etc. Unfortunately , the last one is correct we don't have any money. That one's tricky. But if it was a perfect world we would have money for Education and Green Infrastructure. I can't think of anything else more important for the future!
The point again is to get people out of there car, reduce fuel consumption, reduce noise , reduce pollution.
Though I missed the meeting, unfortunately. I didn't realize they were planning on putting pathways through the existing planted medians East of 900E. Uh that's a little unnecessary, money you diffidently don't need to spend. Also after some thought and research, I believe that they should remove the outer car lanes West of 900E and use those as bike lanes, keep the cars in the center.
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