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I also ride the bus. I love it, in spite of the surly teenagers. But I ride when the temp is just too hot for me, say for example 95 plus. It just kills me. Plus, I take the bus when it rains or is too cold.

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I know this sounds counter-intuitive… as in ‘if they are riding bikes why are they riding the bus?’ but it would help move riding bikes from a recreational focus to a transport focus.

It actually wouldn’t cost anything more than it costs now… those buses run whether anyone is on them or not.

If the bike/bus transport mode catches on, I am sure someone will develop some kind of bicycle trailer for municipal buses.

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Like I stated, I am with you to a degree because I bike a lot, but I am just facing the reality of things. Cars are not going away as the primary means of daily transportation for people and biking will never replace them as a viable alternative.

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My ride takes me through the industrial center where a good portion of my ride keeps me on the main streets. That has to do with limited road lanes for biking and no paseos going in the direction I need to go.

Biking on a regular basis has made me more aware of bikers when I drive my car. It certainly has made me aware of cars when I bike. I never trust drivers, period. I expect them to be uncaring of me being present on my bike and I just assume they are annoyed with me being in their way, so I ride defensively all the time when I am in traffic.

HSAT, you guys just need to face reality that biking will always remain a recreational activity. The majority populace, and that is a good 99% of the people easily, will always perceive biking as a recreational activity. This perception will never change.

The facts of the matter remain: biking to work or for work or to run chores is impractical and unworkable for people. The primary reason I bike is because we have only one car. I also need the exercise and my wife needs the car much more than I do.

I am blessed to have a shower at work and a locker to keep my stuff stored. Pretty much all work places don’t have such facilities. People do not want to spend doing a 45 minute bike ride, getting sweaty, and then not being able to shower, and then work all day. People don’t want to hassle with having to bike to TJs or Whole Foods, shop, and then having to lug their stuff home in some basket-baby buggy contraption. If the weather is unfavorable to being out biking, that compounds the problem.

So, as much as I feel your pain to some degree, biking is never going to be seen as an alternative means of transportation for the regular person. It is always going to be seen as recreational. Even at those meetings you mention, the mind-set will be helping the city accommodate a growing number of enthusiasts, not providing alternatives for genuine transportation needs. And if you insist on “forcing” the 99% of the world to “accept” your perspective by taking away a lane of traffic where the lane is much more needed for cars than a minuscule group who rarely use it, people will hate you. They’ll hate you with the visceral hatred those parents at the Summit swimming pool hate those few petty grumblers who don’t like kids.

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