Think Portland needs a bigger and bolder plan that would also be an attraction. What if there was a bike highway, protected/separated space for bikes from the airport all the way to Nike's campus. Would cut across a huge swath of Portland, help turn car commuters to bikes and be an attraction itself

Stuff we subsidize:

Private sports stadiums for rich owners and rich employees.

Roads, highways, parking for private vehicles.

Food

Gasoline

Internet

There's a bunch of other stuff

Think they actually have negative value. A lot of motorists seem to think it is a bike lane and that bikes NEED to be in it and if it isn't there bikes shouldn't be there. They have limited useful value in way finding to a real bike lane/path is about it IMO.

The main message was that bikes are slowed down by cars, significantly! Cars are just slow all on their own.

I mean if everyone in a car got on a bike what I said would still stand. Cars slow down bikes. Bikes rarely slow down bikes and if they do it's only because they're jammed into a narrow space which would no longer be the case without cars.

So before cars were invented all humans stopped moving during the winter? You can easily bike in the winter, it's often even better than during the hot months.

And many people with disabilities are unable to drive but are able to use bikes and wheelchairs but cars make it dangerous.

And all the best neighborhoods and squares and villages in and around Boston coincidentally are where all those old trains ran...🤔

The $.10 seemed a bit low and after discussing my micro plastics AI revised to $.50 which brings total per gallon cost of gasoline to $20 even. And...that feels right. At $20 a pop I think a lot of people would reevaluate driving a mile to buy some bread but more necessary uses would still exist.