As someone who has suffered two life threatening bike vehicle accidents in the past 40 years I can attest that mixing vehicle and bicycle traffic is a bad idea.

In places where the two coexist it has taken generations of experience and fatal and nonfatal interaction to evolve into a workable situation.

Idaho lacks sensible bicycle regulations or training. Most bicyclists I see in Boise represent Darwin at work: little regard for or fear of motorists or pedestrians, no sense of self-preservation.

In an ideal world mixed transportation would be great. This is not an ideal world. We are inviting mayhem.

to create a

“…The Great U.S. Shale Gas Boom Is Likely Over For Good…”

“…Unfortunately for the United States, it was never going to become energy independent. The notion of U.S. energy independence was built on hype, hope and cow excrement. Instead, we are now going to witness the collapse of U.S. shale oil and gas production…”

https://srsroccoreport.com/another-nail-in-u-s-empire-coffin-collapse-of-shale-gas-production-has-begun/

J Smith – London is a very poor example. Their business situation is nearly exactly opposite of ours. When we build a business location we must provide for adequate parking. There, due to the density of London and their public transportation lifestyle they are prohibited from providing the parking we would provide.

The American west is more than a location, it is a lifestyle and culture. And while I could bike from my house to Oregon and back, I wouldn’t bike in downtown Boise. And while others may bike downtown, I don’t wish the culture of the town changed to something we (collectively) are not.

And, your “shale oil scam” is simply ill-informed, but please don’t reply with any websites.

If the protected lanes go in….this is called a “road diet”. Road diets are used to increase safety for all users while enhancing bike and pedestrian facilities. There is little impact to the level of service when properly done. Check out these examples http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/road_diets/case_studies/roaddiet_cs.pdf

Below is a link to help you understand what the popular media doesn’t dare talk about…
http://www.resilience.org/primer

Kunstler is an author, not an actor. He’s written several highly acclaimed books on civic design and energy depletion.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Howard_Kunstler

What energy shortage? Do you mean the fictitious one created by the politicos and corporations? It’s being used to extract money from the workers. Everything which happened in this country in the last 30 years has been designed to eliminate the middle-class… including the manufactured energy crisis and all those other inflated fees and taxes. Our electricity bill is nearly 3x of 15 years ago, but the fuels for electricity production are cheaper now. If you make $80K a year, you pay approx 55-60% in taxes and fees. Most of it goes to payroll and benefits of government employees.

The GOP is trying to tear down the only guy who can win because they are not really GOP… they are addicted to the tax and spend too.

TED Talks has no credibility with me because they only support liberal speakers. Find me a conservative on TED.

James H Kunstler is a washed up New York actor who blogs a lot on topics he’s passionate about. His education is in Theater arts. So NOT an EXPERT, just passionate… and just another anti-American liberal hack. The arts are loaded with commies.

“…Our suburbs will prove to be a huge liability. (As energy depletion becomes problematic) They represent the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world…”

“…Because they have no future, our suburbs entail a powerful psychology of previous investment that will prevent us from even thinking about reforming them or letting go of them…”

“…There will be a great battle to preserve the supposed entitlements to suburbia and it will be an epochal act of futility, a huge waste of effort and resources that might have been much better spent in finding new ways to carry on an American civilization…”

Here’s a short TED Talk by Kunstler on the topic which is fascinating and very entertaining.
https://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_suburbia?language=en#t-1169130