Re: High population density is good for bikes

On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:06:12 -0800 (PST), donquijote1954
<nolionnoproblem@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Mar 3, 11:58 pm, Nate Nagel <njna...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> donquijote1954 wrote:
>
>> > I think he forgot the horse****. But such Utopia already exists among
>> > the Amish. Do we have to wor****p the same?
>>
>> As long as we have the same population density and agricultural economy
>> as the Amish, there'll be no problem.
>>
>> I don't know how many people are going to be willing to accept that...
>>
>> nate
>
>The ones that must die, most likely won't accept it. ;)
>
>Holland though has a very high population density, and does great with
>bikes. We can't say the same about cars when the competition for roads
>and parking spaces becomes acute. High population density is good for
>bikes. The wave of the future in an increasingly overcrowded world.
>
>Netherlands Population density: 1,272 persons per sq mi


<giggle>

And all we hafta to is convince people to move to The Wide Open Spaces
of Wherever, create the density to make it "easy" to ride a bike, then
suddenly discover the temperature eight months of the year is low enuf
to crystallize a guy's gonads.

Then how many people are gonna be riding bikes?

This is the rather challenging logic being used in places like
"Greater Vancouver"... oops, sorry, we must now refer to the region as
"Metro Vancouver"...  which has this gradiose scheme of designated
cycle routes.

They look pretty on maps, but your average office boffin is not going
to jump on a bicycle in the dark of 7 a.m. November when it's
chundering down with the Pac. Northwest's onshore onslaught and slog
through x-number of km's in the pissy murk.