Posted on 05/04/2010 9:56:11 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Apparently Sec. of Transportation Ray LaHood thinks he lives in France, or maybe Amsterdam, or some such tiny, closed-in country. That is the only conclusion I can come to with his idiotic statements recently given to CNSNews. On May 3, LaHood announced a snazzy, wondermous, neato and momentous "sea change" in American transportation, a great idea whose time had come. And that great idea was: Everyone should ride a bike to work.
Most Americans live between 10 and 25 miles away from their places of work so Americans spend at least a half hour one way in their cars going to work. In 2005, for instance, it was estimated by the federal government that the average drive-time for America's workers was 24.3 minutes. Adding the rest of the day's traveling needs, a University of California study found that we spend some 101 minutes a day driving.
With all that distance to cover, the question becomes, how the heck can we expect Americans to use bikes for commutes to work? No matter how differently Ray LaHood configures the roads, America is simply too wide open to make it efficacious to daily ride a bike to work. I mean, is this fool expecting people to add hours and hours to their transportation time every day? Who has time for that nonsense?
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
Cut the obam entourage in half, and cut his trips by 70% and then we’ll talk
Uh, Ray. Did you forget that GM owes a pile of money to the federal government? That the auto industry is on life support? Did you take at least one economics course in college where they talked about the fact that consumers have to buy and use a product (ie, a car) for suppliers (ie, auto companies) to be financially healthy?
Uh, I would have hated to make the trip I had Sunday night on a bike! That flooding rain was bad enough in my truck...
eff these dims. such idiotcy warrants no further response.
We’ve been hearing this from the former mayor of our town for years. Given the distances most of us travel it’s not feasible. Besides on some streets the biker’s take their lives in their hands. So the city used stimulous money to paint bike lanes on a bunch of the streets. Silly Silly Silly
You first, ya fat-a$$ed loudmouth. I'll bet you take a Limo to the office each day.
You complete morons. People are fed up with the congestion on their roads because of the way you complete incompetents build roads.
Yes, we are sick of being stuck in our cars because our current crop of “transportation” experts are too arrogantly wedded to “green” ideology that they do not build adequate, properly designed roadways for us.
For example, notice in any major urban area lanes that suddenly end for no apparent reason creating choke points that clog up traffic? That is by design. Going all the way back to the 1950s “Urban Planners” designed in “choke points” in traffic arteries with the notion that that “barrier to automotive traffic” would encourage “use of mass transit systems”.
Build us roads that are designed to work and a great deal of our “congestion” problems go away.
But that will never happen as long as the “Green” Fascists dominate our Government at all levels
Tell that to Carbon-Guzzler Al Gore !!
Oh, HELL NO! I have to drive 15 miles just to get to the grocery store and I have a DAILY 125+mile commute into work. And to top it all off, I live in Texas. Temps here routinely soar in excess of 90 by mid- May.
Zero and the first Wookie can cut back on their weekly ‘vacations’ with their oversized entourages FIRST before I cut back on my driving...even minutely.
Great idea! Shift GM to bike production and charge $30K/energyefficientbicycle. You are a genius! That way we can pay more retirement funds for GM employees without having to sack the taxpayers with the bill.
To the democrat party and this POS in particular: FOAD.
FUBO
a. retreat
b. failure
c. collapse
d. all of the above
Yeah right! I can see taking a 34 mile bike ride one way to get my daughter to her special needs private school. Her needs far outpass what I am expecting or trusting the local public school to provide. The bike would have to be tandem , my daughter has not mastered riding a bike. Actually, we would need 3 seats, husband must be watched at all times due to a traumatic brain injury.
PS. All tuition is out of our pockets.
it’s hard to hide a bomb on a bike.....is that the new strategy?
He’s not an idiot! He’s a Leftist with an agenda. His agenda is to get Americans off of their independence by getting them out of their cars and on to bicycles, buses, trains, and on foot.
You first, you petty little commie.
! Plus, no one will be able to get to work anymore, and that means more people on the Fed tit.
PRESTO! Instant Eloi!
So, Mr. LaHood, what’s your daily transport to work? Schwinn? Trek? Do you even own a bike?
You first.
Don’t forget your helmet & knee pads.
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