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MORE GOOD NEWS: PHILLY TOPS NATION IN BICYCLE COMMUTING

BYKO IS GOING TO HAVE AN ANEURYSM! BUT YOU CAN’T ARGUE WITH FACTS! READ THE BICYCLE COALITION’S PDF HERE! THAT’S A PDF, I SAID! IT STAND FOR PUBLIC DOCUMENT, FUCKER! WE RULE!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 10th, 2011 at 3:09 pm.

  • jme0909

    So glad they found an “unbiased” group of biking advocates to do the counting too…and surely double, triple, octuple count the same bikers as they go through town.

  • abracadaver

    TRANSLATION: “PHILLY TOPS NATION IN HIPSTERS”

  • Timo

    “Streets with Better Bicycle Facilities Attract More Females and Foster Better Behavior…”

  • Stacker

    I wanna know what kind of streets attract female bikers but foster bad behavior.

  • barryg

    jme0909, “they” didn’t find anybody, this is published by the Bicycle Coalition themselves. But the most interesting numbers–the bicycle “mode share” compared to other cities–comes from the Census Bureau, so if you have issues with the numbers you need to take it up with them.

  • schmapty

    I agree, we need to design our streets to attract females and encourage them to behave badly.

  • CityMaps

    Nobody wants to comment that we only have so many people on bikes because we’re all degenerates who lost out licenses from DUIs? Astonishing.

  • jburnside

    Pissants emulating the Communist Chinese

  • cb

    I don’t understand comments like abracadaver’s. I know LOTS and LOTS of bikers (commuters, road bikers, mountain bikers, all of the above) in this city, and none are “hipsters.”

  • schmapty

    Ride bike, eat rice, gamble, watch NBA basketball… You got me burnside.

  • the_ill

    the NIMBYs were out in full force at the public comments meeting concerning the 10th/13th street bike lanes pilot program earlier today, but were soundly outnumbered by us bike folks. To hear them speak, bike lanes = loss of business from customers who drive due to lack of parking (according to the city representative, bike lanes cause the loss of ZERO parking spots), longer travel time on streets with bike lanes (city studies show average travel times stay the same before and after bike lanes were installed, though speeds drop 2 mph), and a few other old-man-yells-at-clouds type arguments.

    I think, barring a sensationalized bike vs pedestrian accident, the pilot lanes will become permanent. And I hope that happens, because aside from being good for bicyclists, it will jam a stick right up these car-centric city dwellers’ asses. I mean, really, who willingly drives their car in and around center city? And I say that as someone who lives in G Ho and owns a car.

  • worldb

    Bike lanes are so cool, they defy the laws of physics. Average travel times stay the same while speeds drop? Makes total sense! Awesome! Thanks bike lanes!

  • MH

    Paint all the bikes lanes you want. Just stay off the sidewalk please.

  • jme0909

    I’m still waiting to see how they pull off bike lanes on 10th St without taking away parking spots, especially in Society Hill and Bella Vista, where on some blocks there is parking on 2 sides of the street. Property values decrease if there is less street parking and no driveways.

    You can see how traffic bottlenecks on Spruce and Pine Sts, between say 3rd St and 9th St every day because there is only 1 driving lane instead of 2. All it takes is one bus stopping at every corner along those routes and traffic backs up, cars miss lights, etc.

    Perhaps the city should require yearly biking licenses and registrations (just like cars) to help pay for the costs in the infrastructure changes that are incurred by everyone else. But so glad we’re inconveniencing 97% of commuters for the 3% who ride bikes. That’s democracy.

  • Stacker

    Yeah, JME, because 97% of commuters in downtown Philly use cars. I mean people don’t walk or use the subway, right?

  • CityMaps

    “Property values decrease if there is less street parking and no driveways.”

    Yay! A made up fact with no proof!

  • http://bhiladelphia.blogspot.com/ bhiladelphia

    “All it takes is one bus stopping at every corner along those routes and traffic backs up, cars miss lights, etc.” -jme0909

    …I thought 10th and 13th were picked because there are no bus routes on them

  • chuck63

    Leave to Burnsy to find a problem with riding a bike. He’d rather we all aspire to the habits of Russian oil barons or Vietnamese factory owners.

  • chuck63

    @ jme0909…you obviously are missing the point of our form of government…it is expressly set up so that the majority (your 97%) do not unilaterally impose their beliefs on the minority.

  • jme0909

    I live and work in town and walk to/from work. Subway/Rail commuters are really the only people unaffected. Bus commuters are affected due to traffic backups. Walkers are affected, as I nearly get run over on a daily basis by bike riders, almost as often as drivers, which is astounding considering how many more drivers there are.

    I’m just observing what I feel is extreme religiosity of the pro-bike movement. As a 30+ year lifelong Philly resident, I think I can say with near certainty that Philly isn’t Portlandia and never will be. People who like to drive will never stop driving. They may just come to the city less or look for work elsewhere eventually. Part of me says good riddance then, but I know that’s ultimately bad for the city’s economy.

  • CityMaps

    I get it that “people who like to drive will never stop driving,” but many of them HAVE to drive, because we don’t have a system that allows them safe and convenient alternatives. Creation of bike lanes is one way to move toward a functional system that includes those alternatives.

  • bmurray

    So, let’s see what we have here: there’s a biking advocate counting conspiracy, all bikers are sidewalk-riding homicidal commie hipster drunks (I know I am!), and bike lanes decrease property values and are bad for the city’s economy. Wow- who needs burnside? Take five, jb, we got this!

  • schmapty

    I’ll explain the magic of slower driving and equal commute times. Ready? There are lights on every corner that stop you anyway. If you drive faster you rush to the light and sit. This is also why the person on a bike catches up to you at every light despite moving slower than you.