Biggity biggity BIKES, y'all!!!!1! 1!

I would also suggest some sort of weather altering device so that it isn't rainy, cold and dark here 8 months of the year. That would probably help with the cycling.

Or maybe we could admit that only a very small and vocal subset of our population "really wants to change behavior" to force more cycling and we could stop catering to them. Because a vast majority of people don't want their "behavior changed" by government planners.

We have these things called weather and topography that make that 2030 goal laughable.

That bike counter actually demonstrates it pretty well. A little bit of cold, and the number for yesterday dropped dramatically (unless there's some malfunction because that does seem like a steep drop off).

Same with the wetter weather (I think this September was wetter than normal and had 30,000 less monthly trips than last September).

http://portland-hawthorne-bridge.visio-too…

And before someone chimes in a says "but Copenhagen," yeah, there's similar weather but 1) density; 2) topography; and 3) commute distances are vastly different.

Plus, fuck Copenhagen, I prefer Skoal.

"Government planners" are controlling your behavior already by forcing most people to have only one transportation options: the car. If you're that scared of having the freedom to choose, you may be suffering some sort of Stockholm Syndrome.

Blabby. So are you against the decades of marketing, messaging and other conditioning that went into convincing people it was safe to drive around (even though about 50k were killed a year for a while) at 20+ mph? Are you against the decades of conditioning that told people if they give up on their cities and move to the suburbs things will be better if they run away from their community and their problems? Are you against the conditioning to encourage people, "yeah, the suburbs are great, you can just drive EVERYWHERE!" You're against the conditioning encouraged by Ford and Chevy that "roads are the responsibility of the people" to the Government and it should provide all subsidy necessary to offset the private operation of alternatives (actual market decisions be damned I suppose)? Are you against the conditioning of people to love their cars more than other people? How about the conditioning that has led to increased road rage and violent behavior?

What kind of conditioning do you support and don't you support? I see you think biking is some form of "beahvioral change" from the Government planners, but it appears, that even with all the "Car love conditioning" and "suburbia love" conditioning people still made an objective request to allow some money to be allocated for "bicycling", mainly , as pointed out, merely some stripes on the road.

Doesn't seem very much like conditioning as you purport it to be, if a little small vocal minority rides (oh ya know, like 90k people in a 580k person city) and asks for infrastructure it seems to pan out that maybe they could lay claim to like 1% of the budget eh?

Yeah, in case it's hard to tell... that's smart ass sardonic sarcasm for ya. "Behavior change" my ass. btw - if you aren't handling math to well these days, 90k out of 580k is not a vocal minority, it's more of a substantial percentage of people and it is growing.

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I would bike more if there was better safer bike storage, I would happily pay for it like car parking in dense places like downtown portland...I would love to bike downtown but never will because my bike isn't safe and I can't afford to buy a new one when someone steals it which has happened several times despite heavy locks. So additional bike lanes aside and safer bike only pathways aside...if you want me to bike more give me a safe CONVENIENT place to lock up my bike, I have money for you