🚀 go-pugleaf

I ride a bicycle almost everyplace I have to go within ten miles of here.
Lee County (Ft Myers) Fla. is pretty good at including us in their road
plans. I'm all for it.

Regards, Benny

Anybody that likes dogs and kids cant be all bad!!


Cycle America <NBG@BikeRoute.com> wrote in message
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> THX for all the help here Mark! I had needed it asap for a story the "Good
> Times" is doing on our National Bicycle Greenway as it relates to the
> 8/5  SCCRTC decision to build a bike trail to the Pajaro River and our
> upcoming 8/20 Swing for NBG (http://www.bikeroute.com/Swing) that is going
> to rock BIG TIME.
>
> I was on the phone with long time bike industry advocate Andy Clark of the
> Association of Pedestrian and  Bicycle Professionals (http://apbp.org/)
> who was, as he said, "buried deep within the belly of the Federal Hiway
> Admin" in Washington, DC when your post came over the transom. What's more
> is that Andy faxed me an additional 4 pages worth of studies that
> reinforce the Harris Poll notion below.
>
> One fact, in the Harris Poll that also bears mentioning is that 72% of all
> Americans would like a community based planning structure which make
> walking, running or bicycling an integral part of their area's
> transportation system. And this percentage climbs to 82% when the
> residents are from city center/downtown areas!
>
> A 1997 study by Lake Sosin Snell and Associates found, among other things
> that 64% of the voting public supports using money from federal gas taxes
> for bike trails, bike lanes and sidewalks. A majority who do not ride
> bikes or have anyone in their household who does in this survey also
> supported using their fuel tax for such non car-related infrastructure!
>
> Another study done in 1993 by American Lives, Inc., found that almost
> equally ranked  to open space the most important feature that home buyers
> want in their community is not libraries, churches, schools, shopping
> centers, parks, etc, but **walking and bike paths**!!
>
> > Can anyone tell me the exact # of Americans who say they would bike if
> > there were safe places to do so?
>
> Here's some data off the web.  I get the sense these are all referring to
> the same poll, but the dates conflict.
>
> >From http://www.fampo.state.va.us/clrp/bikes.htm
>
>   Numerous surveys note the popularity of bicycling in the United States.
>   Specifically, a 1991 Harris Poll noted that 46% of all adults aged 18
>   and older (82 million Americans) had ridden bicycles in the previous
year.
>   Of those responding to the survey:
>
>   o 46% said they would sometimes commute to work by bicycle if safe
bicycle
>     lanes were available;
>   o 53% would ride a bicycle if they had safe, separate designated paths
on
>     which to ride;
>   o 45% would ride a bicycle if their workplace had showers, lockers, and
>     secure bicycle storage; and
>   o 47% would ride a bicycle if their employer offered financial or other
>     incentives.
>
>
> >From http://www.transalt.org/blueprint/chapter4/
>
>   A 1992 Harris poll commissioned by Bicycling magazine found that
>   one-quarter of respondents would bicycle to work if safe bicycle lanes
>   were available. [3]
>
>    [3] Bicycling's 2nd Annual Harris Poll on Bike Commuting, May 18, 1992,
>        reported that of the 46% of adult Americans who rode a bicycle in
the
>        previous year, 53% "would sometimes commute to work by bicycle if
there
>        were safe, separate designated bike paths to use." The product of
46%
>        and 53% is 24%, or approximately one-quarter. Zero interest in bike
>        commuting was assumed among non-cyclists - a conservatism.
>
>
> Other links of interest:
>
>
>
http://www.trans.ci.portland.or.us/Traffic_Management/Bicycle_Program/BikeMa
sterPlan/endtrip.htm
>
>   http://www.nd.edu/~ktrembat/www-bike/BCY/LABCommEmployer.html
>
>   http://www.demographics.com/publications/ad/95_ad/9503_ad/9503AF03.htm
>
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>                Attacking with Love
>       Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death Survivor
>     '79 & '86 TransAm Vet, "Awake Again" Author
>    TransAm w/us in 2000: http://www.BikeRoute.com
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