http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2013/01/24/the-full-polling-memo-debunking-the-bike-backlash Comments On: The Full Polling Memo Debunking the Bike Backlash by Dominic Holden en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Sat, 25 May 2013 23:15:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Let me clarify. Write a master plan, include a funding mechanism to pay for an Agency of Bicycle Transit (think Sound Transit Phase 1) to implement and manage it, and put it to a vote in November. Then we can be done with this ridiculousness once and for all.
Posted by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me]]> Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:47:22 -0800 The Stranger
This isn't a survey. It's the usual bullshit "progressive" propaganda dressed up with some numbers to make it seem credible to the incredulous.
Posted by Mister G]]> Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:34:13 -0800 The Stranger
About a poll being released? That's the story you "broke"???

Notify the Pulitzer committee!!!

Posted by bigyaz]]> Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:10:24 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Orv]]> Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:24:45 -0800 The Stranger
At the same time a Portland study has shown that of those who want to ride a bike, over 60 percent will not do so when there are cars present!

Both bits of data have been around for years and would seem obvious and intuitive to even the most casual observer, however, the dominant theme up until recently has been the vehicular cyclists...the speeding lycra-clad whippet navigating between 45 mph traffic and swinging car doors. This mindset, which is embedded in even may bike-friendly cities, and in my own experience, in "bicycle advisory boards", has prevented the real work of building dedicated cycle tracks from getting done!

One can see that it probably benefits the manufacturers who gladly would prefer people paying $8000 for speedy road bikes over a few hundred for hybrids cycles.

The end result is the majority has not been served.


Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:13:01 -0800 The Stranger
dominic, i bet you drive a fucking car man. fu.

i was getting all worked up that shit you got is 3 fucking years old man fuck ace hardware.
Posted by tim koch]]> Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:16:39 -0800 The Stranger
Go North or South a street or two and put them on them on the residential street. Most Seattle policy seems to exist only to spend massive amouts of money unnecessarily.

Bus bulb/rapid ride. Trolley on Broadway. Deteriorating bike stripes on potholed roads.
Posted by Lew Siffer]]> Thu, 24 Jan 2013 14:11:44 -0800 The Stranger
8. Would you favor the building of a teleportation device that could instantaneously and safely transport you to-and-from any point in the known universe?

Yes 92%

No 8%

IOW.
It's not that people are opposed to building bike lanes. They shouldn't be. It's that they're opposed to paying for them.

And generally, the so-called "bike backlash" is probably more about how the public finds the most vociferous individual bike advocates obnoxious and self-righteous. But when the public is presented with sensible public safety policies they of course favor them.


Posted by tkc]]> Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:43:15 -0800 The Stranger
February votes have low turnout by most people, except for very old people.

November votes have very high turnout by everyone.

Which is why we have a Tunnel, for example.
Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:41:16 -0800 The Stranger
Sorry but we want stuff, we just don't want to pay for stuff
Posted by Cato the Younger Younger]]> Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:27:50 -0800 The Stranger Posted by lilmonster206]]> Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:09:15 -0800 The Stranger
Golly, who wouldn't agree with such friendly language?

What if I'm not in a ~family~ at the time? Is it still safer for me?
Posted by Zebes]]> Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:09:10 -0800 The Stranger
Oh, and that Tunnel is still a GHG unfunded nightmare. Take those dollars and build bike trails we can use instead.
Posted by Will in Seattle]]> Thu, 24 Jan 2013 13:00:16 -0800 The Stranger "It sounds like a trunk falling down stairs."
Posted by rob!]]> Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:59:35 -0800 The Stranger Posted by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me]]> Thu, 24 Jan 2013 12:57:48 -0800 The Stranger