Ray Lahood speaks to National Bike Summit

Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood speaks to the closing reception of the National Bike Summit in the Senate Dirksen building.

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[eustatic]

 Highways are not equal with raillines. I would like to see a truck bring a mile of [corn, stone, chemicals, etc] out of port at a tenth of the fossil fuel use.

[Simon Baddeley]

Lovely lovely speech!

[waltermh111]

Bikes are not proposed as a full alternative, but as part of the solution, get your head out of your butt and actually listen to the whole policy, not just the speech focusing on a bikers summit interests.

[waltermh111]

Your forgetting that we want more kids riding bikes and they may not be as safe as you.

Your anecdotal evidence and great sense of survival also dont mean that others less skilled or with less luck shouldnt be able to have safer paths.

Most paths take up little extra space on the sides of roads and do make it less inconvenient for the vehicles on the road who, from my experience, will normally slow down or in other ways hinder their driving to deal with bicyclers.

[waltermh111]

Yes, yes, and yes.

Not hard to consider at all.

Your saying management is any harder than our planning of the automobile management system?

Seriously, will auto roads be 2 lane, will be have 2 way, who will have the right of way.

Such thinking can sound limiting to every position. But we are so used to one way, i can see how its hard for some to imagine another.

But for a real world example, look to other countries where bikes work well alongside autos. Theres plenty.

[waltermh111]

You make no sense.

We have alot of reserve, but its not only expensive, its dangerous to gather.

We subsidize nonrenewables by the billions, still much more than our investment in green energy.

But whether foreign or domestic, our nonrenewables are getting more expensive to gather and renewables are getting cheaper to make and more efficient at the same time, year on year.

The cure is definitely better than the disease of oil.

Plus renewables are more efficient.

[waltermh111]

Wanting to put more bike and walk paths into road and neighborhood plans is not forcing people to ride bikes.

Its getting bikers off of the road where its dangerous and helping to encourage biking by making it safe.

Maybe you just see what you want to because you can only think along party lines.

[waltermh111]

This speaker is a republican, and has no progressive history. Unless your talking about somebody else but didnt keep the reply name.

Fact is, your being left in the stone age if you keep that attitude, while we increase our tech while living better with our environment and getting off of fossil fuels and moving to more efficient energies like renewables while using less energy for better living.

[waltermh111]

if stone age is maglev rail travel, and other high tech modes of mass transit, then send me there. This was a bike summit so he focused on our encouraging of that, but the overall plan puts that as only a part of the solution. Though a bigger part than before.

Many countries, including the very high tech japan use bikes extensively, and its not stone age at all, but a practical and healthy mode of transport in so many ways.

[Brock Foreman]

Ray LaHood for president!

[ironoskar]

Go ahead. Ride your bike. No one is stopping you. What the liberals want is to force everyone on bikes.

I don't understand where you get the idea that you can't ride your bike.

[orty69]

Bike paths are not equal with highways, they are better. I would like to see a truck transport thousands of people without using fuel.