Comments on: Bike Group Forces Garden City Election

By: Zippo

Zippo — Sun, 22 Jul 2012 02:10:00 +0000

Nice idea, and the way it should be. Bikers, especially those with the $10,000 bike/gear/outfit, do not have a good image with the typical path walker… and for sure not with the typical driver. They are few and the walkers & drivers are many. Will be interesting to watch the results.

By: Clancy

Clancy — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:50:26 +0000

It will be nice to see what is the will of the People instead the will of the politicians.

By: bikeboy

bikeboy — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 19:17:04 +0000

Nan: I suspect most of the people who want the path for bikes, don’t live in GC.

That’s an interesting point.

The people who would use the path live in Garden City… and in Boise, Eagle, Star… some even come from faraway places and gravitate to the Greenbelt because it’s such an attractive facility. SHAME on Evans and his Council cronies, for arbitrarily closing one stretch of the path, affecting so many people! (A cursory study of the issue will quickly reveal Evans’ conflict-of-interest; he just happens to be the guy who developed that particular subdivision.)

People from Garden City also ride their bikes on Boise’s Greenbelt sections… and we welcome them!

By: Nan Emouse

Nan Emouse — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:32:21 +0000

I suspect most of the people who want the path for bikes, don’t live in GC.

But hey, take away the one spot where walkers can go and not be afraid of being mowed down by a whizzing bicyclist, most of whom don’t call out a warning.

By: Diane Sower

Diane Sower — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 11:56:07 +0000

They have to pave it, and enlarge it. Have you ever walked on a space that wide and had cyclers whiz by you? I’ve actually fallen down because of this. This BS about supporting all these people who want to ride their bikes is just that BS. Let them pay for the costs to upgrade the greenbelt.

EDITOR NOTE–If the people vote to approve the proposal, they are the ones to pay for it. Pretty hard to argue with a vote of local residents–either way.

By: Eric T

Eric T — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:02:10 +0000

That is a low threshold for getting this on the ballot.

I surmise that one or two HOA letters to the inhabitants of the subdivision(s) in proximity to the mile long bike ban, full of hyperbole, socialist bikers the sky is falling language, will be all it takes to vote the initiatives down.