Comments on: Bike-friendly champions in May 14 council election https://bikedenton.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/bike-friendly-champions-in-may-14-council-election/ Tue, 10 May 2011 14:09:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Derrick Murray https://bikedenton.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/bike-friendly-champions-in-may-14-council-election/#comment-780 Tue, 10 May 2011 14:09:47 +0000 http://bikedenton.wordpress.com/?p=2932#comment-780 The national average marginal cost for bike lanes on city streets is about $16,000 per mile when implemented with new construction or rebuilding. If you estimate the life of the road to be 40 years, this comes out to about $0.0036 per citizen per year for each mile of bike lanes. Or, for every 100 miles of bike lanes, it costs the average citizen about 36 cents per year to construct bike lanes.

I think this is a very small cost for the benefits we will gain.

]]> By: Alan E https://bikedenton.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/bike-friendly-champions-in-may-14-council-election/#comment-778 Thu, 05 May 2011 17:36:29 +0000 http://bikedenton.wordpress.com/?p=2932#comment-778 Kevin! Where’s your tux man? You can’t let yourself get outclassed like this again. Are you even taking this seriously?

]]> By: Phil https://bikedenton.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/bike-friendly-champions-in-may-14-council-election/#comment-777 Thu, 05 May 2011 17:27:18 +0000 http://bikedenton.wordpress.com/?p=2932#comment-777 I am strongly in favor of Denton getting bikes integrated with automobile traffic and following traffic laws. One thing I have noticed is that bikers here are using pedestrian rules. That will never work because of the speed in which they travel. A biker can fail to yield (or even look) at a street crossing and be smashed because the driver cannot see him or her coming. Bikers must stop at intersections before proceeding or risk losing their lives. Bikers are not pedestrians.

]]> By: stearns https://bikedenton.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/bike-friendly-champions-in-may-14-council-election/#comment-776 Thu, 05 May 2011 17:01:59 +0000 http://bikedenton.wordpress.com/?p=2932#comment-776 What a great write up. Very original.

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