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- From: elr@trintex.uucp (Ed Ravin)
- Subject: Re: Cycling and Environmentalism
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.160030.3528@trintex.uucp>
- Organization: Prodigy Services Co.
- References: <724911260.AA06258@urchin.fidonet.org> <1992Dec21.164348.27514@trintex.uucp> <1992Dec21.225640.8005@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:00:30 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.225640.8005@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> les@cs.stanford.edu writes:
- > ... like the executive director of a local development
- > corporation in the Bronx who wants to turn a railroad right-of-way into a
- > parking lot rather than a bikeway.
- >
- >Why not convert it to something more useful: a road? If there is some
- >reason why that won't work, then a pedestrian path or a parking lot
- >sound to me like better uses for that land.
-
- There's already an interstate highway immediately adjacent to it -- and
- US Route 9 (called Broadway by us local types) is two blocks away on the
- other side. The bit of land in question is the abandoned Putnam line
- railroad, which goes from the Bronx, NY up to Brewster NY. It will make
- a wonderful bike road, because of the scarcity of intersections with the
- roadway network, and most important, the level route it provides through
- otherwise hilly-as-hell Westchester and Putnam counties. All of the
- non-hilly through roads in Westchester have been turned into highways,
- forcing cyclists to climb hills unnecessarily when commuting through
- the county.
-
- The person in question wants a parking lot there because she can't
- envision a bike path through an industrial area alongside a highway --
- "It'll be unsafe" she claims. I've noticed that some people perceive
- an area to be unsafe because it can't be reached by automobile :-(...
- The area in question is very small, only twenty feet wide and a half-mile
- long -- after that, the railroad line enters a city park, and there's no
- argument among anyone (at least here in the Bronx) that that section
- should become a bike/ped path...
- --
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