Posted on Thursday, 16th September 2010 by Glenn D. Frankovis
Except for my alderman, Joe Dudzik, it appears that the members of the Public Safety Committee of the Milwaukee Common Council think more people need to ride bicycles in the City of Milwaukee “for short trips”. Therefore they have sent a recommendation to the full Common Council to approve a plan that would add “125 miles of new bike lanes, 40 miles of bike boulevards and seven miles of paved trails that would make bicycling on city streets less frightening”. The cost to do this would be about $8.63 million which sounds like it would come from federal grants as those grants become available.
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September 16th, 2010 at 5:33 pm
Next, it will be mandatory to ride a bicycle in Milwaukee if you’re going less than 10 miles.
September 17th, 2010 at 8:28 am
Public Safety?! Does this guy know what happens when you mix Bicyclists (some of which think they own the road) and automobile traffic?
You have more traffic deaths with as much or more congestion for a very negligible benefit.
September 17th, 2010 at 9:41 am
125 miles of bike lanes? Do bicycles pay an annual registration tax and require periodic licensing fees? Why not? If they want to be treated like other traffic, let’s treat them like other traffic.
September 17th, 2010 at 10:51 am
Ah, Krazy Kovac and the East Side Kids, what scheme they won’t think up next to annoy drivers, taxpayers and waste other people’s money.
A lot of fun riding in cold weather and ice and snow. That’s only 5-6 months out of the year.
Registration and licensing of bikes and riders, that will come along with mandatory safety inspections. More revenue streams down the bike path. I wonder if they’ll have to pay the wheel tax?
Since the lunatics on the county board got screwed out of the wheel tax, maybe they could try this:
Mission, KS, they want to have a driveway tax-to help pay for road repairs. A “mere” $72 for homeowners but they get more for commercial properties. $1200 for a McDonalds- they have to pay their fair share of course.
September 17th, 2010 at 11:39 am
Put the bike lanes on unpaved rights of way, like ones for power lines or railroads.
Use contributions from “green” activists to pay for it.
I’m sorry. Did you say that the “green” activists don’t care about this enough to pay for it out of their own pockets? What about Al Gore and Ted Turner? They got money.
September 17th, 2010 at 2:38 pm
After giving this some thought, I think it’s an excellent idea so long as it’s confined to the east side streets like Oakland, Murray, Maryland, Downer, Farwell, Prospect, North Avenue, Locust Street, and Kenwood Blvd. Then they can expand to the Riverwest area (Humboldt, Holton) afterwhich the length of east-west streets (North Avenue, Center Street, Burleigh, Keefe Avenue, and Capitol Drive). Just think of how many jobs would be created by this move. All the ambulance companies and hospitals would have to increase their staffing. The Darwin award could be given out weekly starting with the guy who came up with this brilliant idea. Yeah, this would make city streets “less frightening”.