Originally Posted by scroca

I know!

From now on all goods will be transported by drone.

All people will move by bicycle.

Don't ask me what we will do about all the drone parts raining down from the collisions up above... Wait... Covered bike paths!!!

Originally Posted by I-Like-To-Bike

No need to wonder, just ignore reality and all will be well in the car free utopia where everybody rides without any concern for insignificant issues like family, time, distance, geography, health, weather, cargo, safety, etc.

Originally Posted by CliffordK

I could move to Venice.
And just take a boat wherever I need to go

Originally Posted by CliffordK

And Venezia?

Originally Posted by CliffordK

I could move to Venice.
And just take a boat wherever I need to go

Originally Posted by CliffordK

Do you ride a bike, walk, or take a bus on public roads?

Do you buy food and supplies that were transported on public roads? Manufactured by individuals that utilized the public roads to get to work?

Originally Posted by cobrabyte

You're paying for infrastructure you don't use? So all the products you buy, the food you eat, the consumables you consume, the construction supplies that make up the building you work and live in...etc...those were not delivered by trucks that use the highway system?

Originally Posted by spare_wheel

So...you...apparently...believe...that 10-12 lane highways exist due to "freight".

Seriously???

Moreover, long-haul trucking is hardly as damaging to the environment, human health, and livability as low-occupancy people cart use.

Please play again.

Originally Posted by B. Carfree

The Bay Area and Sacramento, now linked by the Amtrak Capitals train, have loads of upper-middle class (and higher) income folks on trains and buses. This is an incredibly spread out region, the type of place where one can go for century-length bike rides with minimal traffic but still be within reach of suburbs and cities. In many places of employment thereabouts, public transit use is considered the norm and people ask why you drove in to work if you happen to bring a car on occasion, assuming you have something special planned. Heck, many companies have contracted with Muni to use the bus stops for company buses, which are basically just privately run express commuter buses with a single destination.

The public transit, while functional, is hardly what I would call robust and it was almost non-existent fifteen years ago. However, the simple addition of the Capitals, light rail in San Jose and some BART extensions have dramatically changed the convenience for millions of people. Well, that and the fact that the freeways reached terminal capacity a quarter-century back. It is all relative and a degraded car experience does help the perception of the public transit option. I now see many bikes on the train and BART, which has relaxed its bike policy to allow bikes around the clock. It's certainly not a paycheck to paycheck crowd on the public transit.

Originally Posted by wphamilton

How difficult or expensive is it to change out the cogs when they wear out?

Originally Posted by noglider

This story warms my heart. Funding is in proportion to how much they want each mode to be used. So, for instance, they want 20% of trips to be done by bike, so bike infrastructure gets 20%. That's huge. Big changes are bound to happen.

How San Luis Obispo Established the Most Powerful Bike Funding Policy in the Nation

Originally Posted by Omiak

What a bunch of crazy far out utopian moonbeam thinking! Groovy man! Too bad their city will surely collapse into the dark ages because anything but exactly the status quo is impossible.