Comments on: Bikeboy Says Two Wheeler Plan Off Balance

By: Zippo

Zippo — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 02:06:52 +0000

More than happy to cause you frustration bother. Peace, love, and get your hand out of my pocket!

By: Gary Richardson

Gary Richardson — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:39:32 +0000

Zip:

It’s clear from this conversation that you and I have very different views of what’s going on here–personally, with each other, in this community, this country, on this planet. I hope that yours brings you peace and happiness.

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. –Kurt Vonnegut

EDITOR NOTE–You have both been civil, but its time to move on to a new topic.

By: Zippo

Zippo — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:04:41 +0000

Not should become. Should BE self-sustaining. Stop spinning and side-stepping.

Assume nothing with this bunch of money wasting career people. They are about themselves first and public farther and farther down the list. They even pay people to blog about this kind of stuff so as to cloud the issue.

By: Gary Richardson

Gary Richardson — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:53:06 +0000

Zip:

I believe membership is part of the Boise bike-sharing proposal. More important, I think, is the ability for anyone with a credit card to rent and secure one of the bikes.

I agree that the project should become self-sustaining. I assume careful consideration is going into where to locate the 140 bikes for both security and convenience.

I know, stupid me for thinking folks who’ve made careers out of transportation planning could come up with a workable idea; I must have been a bureaucrat in a previous life.

By: Gary Richardson

Gary Richardson — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 23:38:21 +0000

Oops! I erred in the comment above:
The $40 million estimate is for widening 4 miles of State St.–from 23rd St. to Glenwood–$10 million per mile. Previously, I was measuring the distance from 23rd to Veterans Parkway/36th St.

By: sam the sham

sam the sham — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:53:57 +0000

Kinda leaves out the tax payers on the bench doesn’t it!

By: Zippo

Zippo — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 04:50:34 +0000

States street wider? It’s a great idea. Traffic count and accident rates indicate the need. Probably getting wider, in part, for bicycles? You do not understand what keeps the lights on in this country if you think infrastructure improvement is a waste. They need to do it with fewer suits and more shovels like they did in the 1960s, before we got a building full of wasteful over-educated people at the transportation department. It’s not enough however. Really need to be building a loop of freeway around the whole town instead of making these dangerous through-streets bigger.

Any bicycle theft specific crime stats yet. The latest ADA map seems to show the highest density crime in the area of our discussion. And how about that membership idea.

By: Gary Richardson

Gary Richardson — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:09:30 +0000

How do you feel about spending $40 million to widen 1.2 miles of State St.–an idea based on someone’s guess of what they think might improve traffic’s health? Should we just keep feeding asphalt into that beast?

By: Zippo

Zippo — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:07:30 +0000

You could be correct… my last peek at the data was a few years ago. Norend and DT are neighbors and they are still high on the list for crime. What is the worst now, is it the bench? Another nearby area.

Did you look speciffically at bike theft?

Back to the main point of this story: Tell me how you’re going to justify 2/3 of a million $$ and make the program self-sustaining. It’s seems to be an idea based on someone’s guess of what they think might improve people’s health. Seems to me it is not the kind of process we should follow to protect the public trust, even if it is Obama’s funny-money.

Too many with too much spending power for too long = broke nation. We have arrived!

By: Gary Richardson

Gary Richardson — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 02:56:08 +0000

The North End (V3) and Downtown (V2) are two different and distinct police crime reporting districts: http://police.cityofboise.org/media/2433/5476_boisepolicereportingdistrictsmap2006.pdf
There are ten reporting districts. Unfortunately, statistical summaries by neighborhood do not seem to be available online. But if this month’s reporting is any indication, both Downtown and the North End rank below several other districts in both number and severity of crimes reported.

If you know of data showing the North End to be Boise’s high crime neighborhood, bring it on.