tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post4823626367546104042..comments2024-03-25T17:49:41.408-07:00Comments on Salem Breakfast on Bikes: Bike-Partisan Thinking on City Budgets, Land Use, and TransportationSalem Breakfast on Bikeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15618055627843335993noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post-19242773857245660482012-01-27T12:15:43.263-08:002012-01-27T12:15:43.263-08:00If "carburbia" is over, how come no one&...If "carburbia" is over, how come no one's noticed?!<br /><br />I look at the 107 unit Boise Project, and the City had to add as a condition that it add 16 bike parking spots. That's a car:bike stall ratio of 485:16 or 30:1. <br /><br />Meanwhile, a 60 unit project just announced for Portland will be named after a bicycle and have a car:bike stall ratio of 12:91 or 1:8! <br /><br />I know Salem doesn't want to be like Portland, but still how is it that the sensibility of the two towns, not even an hour apart, is so disparate? Salemites go to Portland all the time! The internet makes the transmission of ideas so quick and easy! And yet here Carburbian Autoism is in full force. (And it's not like Portland's <i>done</i> with Carburbian Autoism, either.)<br /><br />Anyway, it's good to know your empirical data confirms your savings!Salem Breakfast on Bikeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15618055627843335993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5666195730630249633.post-36044244534409531392012-01-27T08:25:19.799-08:002012-01-27T08:25:19.799-08:00Word. A huge portion of what little economic cush...Word. A huge portion of what little economic cushion we enjoy in our house is due to only having had a 3-cylindr second car for a very brief period and not driving it much, and then selling it for about what I bought it for. All the rest of our marriage has been with one car only, and the gain is huge. From my spreadsheet kept since day 1 of ownership of our latest used car, September 2003, I know that the 55000 miles we've driven have cost us 51 cents a mile. If we drove anything like the average, we'd enjoy a much lower per-mile cost, but a much greater outlay overall.<br /><br />The carburbia era is over, killed by its own "success."Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12731260619465817652noreply@blogger.com