>
>> Higher percentages of the culture's trips serviced by mass
>> transit and walking in communities easy to service
>> with mass transit and walking - not more bicycling - is the needed
>> big-picture-primary correction to _transportation_.

>What makes you think that low powered private vehicles are not the
>needed big-picture-primary correction to _transportation_?

Not this list's topic for discussion.

>Nobody has said anything anti mass transit. I merely stated facts.

You are discussing a snapshot. You are drawing artificial
limits to all the possible changes to inputs to the set of
"facts" you claim... all about a topic that is not
very specific to bicyclist advocacy, but yet - as part of
a much broader picture - much more important to our culture
then the focused specific topic of bicycling will ever be.


>Therefore I conclude that
>it is proper for bicycling advocates to oppose subsidizing a system that
>reduces bicycling (and walking), creating chauffered motorists. Further,
>such heavy vehicles accelerate the destruction of the pavement, an
>important element of bicycling advocacy.

I would find it even more important to fight/oppose bicyclist advocacy
that took this tact - with all the wide ranging and complicated claims
it automatically incorporates - than fighting bicyclist advocacy that
supported bikelanes.



Ken








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