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fmbutt@mrbt.sw.stratus.com (Farooq Butt) writes:
>Frugal (aka "cheap") 
>New Englanders apparently do not consider bike paths a useful
>thing to fund with their taxes.  While I can understand pinching 
>one's pennies in a recession like this, to my knowledge this sorta
>"frill" has never been funded in this state _except_ in a very 
>few locals near Boston and "The People's Republic" :-) of Cambridge...

In Florida, the situation's worse.  During my 2-year stay in Broward
County, I learned that there were 60 miles of official "bike paths" in
the county (population 1 million, area ~500 sq mi).  Taxpayers had
approved them in the form of repainted lanes on a few major roads: a
three-foot swath along the edge of the road (usually littered with
broken glass tossed from passing cars) was designated as a bike path.

:-(

-rich