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9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Patricia Kay Youngson:... · 0 replies · +1 points

That is 500 more people commuting on that road. There is no way to tell if these are new riders or if people just switched their route. There is no doubt Folsom is a more pleasant riding experience. I question the wisdom of spending the money on this. I have not driven Folsom during peak hours, but there is no way this would not have been a disaster on Iris.

9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Patricia Kay Youngson:... · 2 replies · +8 points

I find the demographics section interesting. It shows a slight decrease in male ridership after right sizing and a small increase in female riders. There was an initial jump in families then it dropped to to below pre-right sizing. Part of the problem is you don't have a large enough sample set to draw strong conclusions. I suspect a lot of the increases are due to riders using Folsom more frequently at the urging of community cycles in order to skew the numbers in their favor.

The crash statistics are encouraging, but you are comparing 2 years to 2 months.

9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Police investigating b... · 1 reply · +8 points

This is becoming a weekly occurrence. So sad.

9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Fearing bad winter, Bo... · 1 reply · +11 points

This was always, for me anyway, accommodating the few at the expense of the many. It was also a misguided ploy to annoy people out of their cars, much like the undersized parking spots throughout Boulder (which just results in people creeping into two spots).

It is fantastic that your lifestyle allows you to bike everywhere. That is simply not the case for most people, no matter how this city council wants it to be true. People in-commute and that is not going to be replaced with bike traffic.

Boulder should definitely continue to make biking accessible and safe to encourage people to bike. However, most of us opposed this because it was blatantly at the expense of drivers and a clear case of ideology motivating this rather than clear facts.

9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Fearing bad winter, Bo... · 0 replies · +7 points

Also, a lot of the issue is that so many people commute in form the L towns. I commute from Longmont to Gunbarrel. There is a bus, but you really have to work around its schedule and isn't convenient as I have two small children. If there were multiple buses per hour I would probably be more inclined to ride, but I am not sure the population or ridership (even if increased) could sustain something like that.

9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Fearing bad winter, Bo... · 0 replies · +28 points

SO why is it that the people opposed to this were the selfish ones and not you? Right-sizing negatively affected way more people than it helped.

Most of us like the goal of encouraging cycling. However, this was clearly designed to create traffic and thereby annoy people out of their cars. This is a pipe dream as most people who drive do so because they have to. It reminds me of the pipe dream thinking invading Iraq would turn it into a democracy that would act as a shining beacon to the middle east. Good end goal; wrong application and execution....same goes for right sizing.

9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Fearing bad winter, Bo... · 0 replies · +33 points

"If we're not even willing to carry out one experiment like this to completion, it's hard to see how we'll ever move away from being the auto-dominated city that we are now."

I've got news for you. Unless everyone who works in Boulder also lives in Boulder, you will always be a city that uses cars as the primary mode of transportation. It is a great goal to encourage biking, but these poeple are living in a dream world.

9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Jim Sawyer: George Wil... · 1 reply · +3 points

Gene,

I am not really sure I have the answer for that. You are absolutely right, we have too many regulation even though many are well meaning. Of course, that does'nt cause me to believe government should stay completely out of the way of businesses.

Like most things there is not a black and white answer, which is why I sometimes side with Republicans and sometimes side with Dem...or often I hold a position that pisses off both :)

I think where there is an effective, market based incentive that is the way to go, but I think these companies need to be held accountable. Raising the price of a life saving drug 5000% is not only immoral, it should be illegal, just as price gouging during a natural disaster is. Its pretty hard to boycott a drug that will save your life.

9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Editorial: The decline... · 0 replies · +3 points

Several years ago, a Georgia peanut producer knowingly allowed peanut butter to ship to market that tested positive for salmonella. That outbreak ended up killing 9 people if I recall. That CEO was just sentenced to 28 years in prison.

Accidents happen and companies make mistakes, but if cars were knowingly sent out with defects that caused death then the people responsible should not just get fines.

9 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Jim Sawyer: George Wil... · 3 replies · +2 points

Capitalism has done more to improve the lives of people the world over more than almost any other man-made institution. The idea of capitalism is that it ensures and equality of opportunity. It does not guarantee an equality of outcomes.

That said, capitalism is a human institution and as such has flaws. It is evident in the recent greed that caused a company to raise the price of its life saving bills over 5000%. It is evident in Volkswagen's emissions scandal.

I would argue we also don't have equal opportunity in this country when the cost of a college education is beyond the reach of so many. Therefore, I do not believe in capitalism that is free from regulation. Common sense regulation can help maintain the wonderful benefits of capitalism while protecting people from the greedy abuses we unfortunately see so often. Of course, regulations can go too far, but for the most part they are put in place in reaction to specific abuses, one being the predatory practices of lenders and credit card companies.

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