Originally Posted by WalksOn2Wheels

It reminds me of a situation in Arlington, Texas when I lived there. There was a huge "hike & bike" plan that was being voted on. A few grumpy local business owners fought it tooth and nail, and swore it would cost Arlington taxpayers BILLIONS of dollars in construction, traffic congestion, decreased gas mileage due to congestion, etc. They would always lead with "And bikes are ok, as long as they're in parks," not realizing that most of the money in the several million (not even close to 1 billon, heck maybe not more than 0.01 billon) dollar 10 year plan was actually for parks. After continually harping on the BILLIONS of dollars line, I finally looked it up myself and figured out that the actual on-street striping in the plan was something just in the low thousands over 10 years. Luckily, the old grumps ultimately lost.