Bikes Move People too
This is a letter to the editor in response to: http://www.thesuburban.com/opinion/editorials/no-to-a-congestion-tax/article_f9ed205a-2475-5336-9b90-4eea8914d2f3.html Dear Editor, Bikes move people too, and they do it cheaper, more sustainably, and with better health outcomes than cars do. I pay my taxes and I want infrastructure for my transportation needs, and those needs include cycling. No one said ´we have too much parking, so lets build Bixi stands and bike paths´. Before they were built, parking was already a problem. We are spending billions on roads for cars while it is well established that Building Roads makes Traffic Worse My taxes pay for things like 1.5 billion dollar Turcot interchange ( without a cycling bridge over an eight lane highway ), another 1.5 Billion dollars on highway 30 (cannot cross the St. Lawrence River by bike, 20 km. detour) I have to cycle against traffic on highway 20 in Dorion because the bike path just ends a...