Cars vs. bikes a false choice
When our country debates things that touch all our lives – healthcare, climate, and transportation, to cite a few topics – it’s easy to draw lines around simple “for” and “against” positions. But life isn’t entirely made up of binary choices, and I think this article for my client pothole.info,
FUTURE TRANSPORTATION FUNDING: ROAD REPAIR VS. SPECIAL ROADS FOR BICYCLISTS
helps illustrate the point. Road building and repair funding is mistakenly thought to be anti-green, while those who favor non-motorized transit (walkers and bikers) and public transportation are often characterized as unrealistically wed to environmental principles that fit neither our culture nor our economy.
We can leave the huge debate and discussion on the broad topic for another day. But this article finds a third way, where good roads are appreciated and used by bicyclists. How funding is allocated should take this factor into consideration. (Full disclosure: this writer gets a break on his car insurance because he drives less than 4000 miles a year, using his bike to travel an equivalent distance during the approximately eight months/year of bike-friendly conditions in Chicago.)
What I like most about this topic is how being a web content writer (in this instance, a white paper writer) sometimes allows me to mine out information that is lacking in mainstream and fringe media discussion.