Tuesday, August 25, 2009

On bikes

This article is by no means the end all be all authority on the topic, but I want to use it as a launching point for a larger discussion.

How hard would it really be for the city of Memphis to add bike lanes to a few of the more used routes bikes travel on. I am not saying they must be added to Poplar and Union, but why not Madison, Peabody, Central, and Vance?

Oh and while we're at it, Making the trolley's run faster and expanding the routes through more of midtown wouldn't exactly be the worst thing in the world.

My point isn't to start a campaign that try's to change the culture of the city all at once, but more to simply give the city something that is good that a portion of the culture already wants. Why not embrace that?

1 comment:

CBD said...

Making useful trolley routes that take you to places other than Madison & Cleveland intersection (???) would propel this city forward into the...um..1930s. My grandmother used to take the trolley from her house on east Jackson to downtown to see her mother at lunch time when she was 8. It was affordable, useful, safe, and effective.

I'm all for the bikeness too.