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In article <1992Apr13.170245.17966@kronos.com> richb@kronos.com (Rich Braun) writes:
>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.
>

I visited my brother last year, when he lived near Sarasota, FL, in a place
called Longboat Key. A long bike path ran between Longboat Key and Sarasota,
but it was really too hot and humid for biking, at least for this northerner.
Sometimes you really can't win, I guess. I made up for not biking by swimming
in the Gulf of Mexico. 

We do have some bike paths here in eastern Massachusetts. There are several
on Cape Cod, for instance. These are recreational and help no one get to work,
though. I have read that a bike path is being constructed between Bedford, MA
and Alewife Station in Cambridge, along an old railroad bed. Having been
talked about for some time, this path would actually be helpful in commuting.
Estimated completion date: about 2110.


Bruce Smith