Originally Posted by
Newspaperguy
Where I live, we recently had a survey of residents. Of those who responded, 60 per cent did not want to see taxes increase, including 10 per cent who want services cut in order to have lower taxes. This is close to the same as a the results from survey conducted a few years earlier. It will be a very hard sell to add any sort of bike paths unless there is a way to do so without any increase to the tax bill.
Why not take 5% of the existing road budget and put it toward protected bike lanes? Money well spent.