Off Topic - Price of Gasoline

[moonfroggy]

i agree, and it should cost more for cars to go over bridges, higher bridge tolls and the money could go towards better bike lanes and busses and subways

Originally posted by pedalfaster
Ok, I'm evil, but I would love to see gasoline go up to $ 4 or 5 bucks a gallon. I'd like it to get to the point where Americans would wake up and realize that we can't sustain our car-crazy suburban sprawl culture forever.

I'd love to see more people using bikes/walking/ taking public transportation. I'd love to see the obesity levels drop. I'd love to see "paper-boys" (remember those?!) out riding their bikes every evening again. I'd like to see kids riding to school and over to their friend's houses to play , instead of being shuttled from soccer game to soccer game in mom's big gas hog.

Guess I'm sort of an idealist, huh?

[Trek420]

jobob...."There is suposedly a bike path in the works for that area, it would be part of the trail that circles the SF Bay, but I haven't heard anything about it lately - it's probably gone the way of everything else in the latest round of CA budget cuts "

Jobob, check with ebbc.org, they might know the status of your road, remind me to send you the e-mail address of the guy there I'd talk to. There's a website for the Bay Trail that itsekf that has that info.

I too live near parts of the Bay Trail and it's odd how it skips some parts and has blank spots. It'll be a great day when it's finished!! I want to ride all the way around the Bay 8-)

TREK

[jobob]

Jobob, check with ebbc.org, they might know the status of your road, remind me to send you the e-mail address of the guy there I'd talk to. There's a website for the Bay Trail that itsekf that has that info.

Been there, done that, proving once again that great minds think alike

Rats, I thought I had saved the email but I guess not - otherwise I'd let you know w. whom I corresponded.

Basically, the answer was that there was nothing in the works.



If you're interested in riding around the bay, here's one guy's report:

http://www.aigeek.com/photos/2004-bi...round-the-bay/

[spazzdog]

I drive a JEEP Wrangler... an OLD one. It gets crap milage in todays terms (18 hwy) but I rarely drive anymore.

I use regular unleaded (87 octane) and I believe the last time I filled up it was 1.89 at the cash only place.

What does anyone need a HumVee for... unless they're military?
I figure its a mobile sign that says:

" Hi. I had $130K I didn't know what to with so I thought I'd buy this."

[Trek420]

hi jobob, "Been there, done that, proving once again that great minds think alike "

I'm reeeealllly bad with names, Ian something like Ian McDonald sumthin like that.

"Basically, the answer was that there was nothing in the works. "

Rats

"If you're interested in riding around the bay, here's one guy's report:

[url]http://www.aigeek.com/photos/2004-biking-around-the-bay/"

there's also a charity ride called Go Greenbelt which looks like fun that does it. Anyone done that?

Back to the subject at hand...my infernal combustion vehicle is a '99 Olds Alero, decent mileage but it is the V6 so it doesn't sip. I use public transportation a lot, take our light rail, and average now about 10-12 bike trips a month which will go down once we "fall back" I'm sure. Raise the price of gas as high as you want, most I talk to will not do even my 2-6 mile flat bike laned commute.

I don't want to politicize this board but it's already going there so, wether your reason is global instability, global warming, offshoring of jobs, health crisis resulting from sedentary lifestyle.... whatever we need to reduce our dependance on oil for sure and bikes help. But a lot needs to happen to see more of that.

Some we've already brought up; we need safe routes-the general public is not going to ride the way we TE members do, they need bike lanes, signs and trails

how many times have I heard "I like to ride but each day I have to take the kids to child care and I have to shop for the family" for women/parents especially to get on the road they need to have access to child care and they need routes to services-not sprawl that leads nowhere-this means planning and...

I hope we all have health care ~ would you ride if you didn't??....

But mostly for our American board members we need an end to the cowboy attitude that you're a weanie if you ride a bike or drive anything but a huge car. We need cyclist to be seen as strong athletes and not just "someone who's not in a car"

well, gotta go walk the dog

[Veronica]

There's a family that goes to my school that walks/jogs each morning - about two miles. The girls are in second and third grade I think. They jog a bit, walk a bit. Mom and dad bring them, carrying their backpacks and then jog home together. I think that is so cool. I see them as I ride Fluffy to school. I hope they keep it up even when it turns colder. I can see not doing it in the rain.

V.

[Trek420]

just opened up bicycling magazine's latest, blueprint of how to make your community more bike friendly and guess what city they rate tops for cycling?

Anchorage Alaska. Anyone from there?