discussion-l Mailing List: Re: BikeAthens Discussion: discussion-l Digest, Vol 30, Issue 5

[enrique (enrique.pineda]

I hope we get those bike lanes. Lexington is especially scary to pedal on.

epp

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On Mar 11, 2011, at 6:16, discussion-l-request [at] bikeathens.com wrote:

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> From: mike ely <mikeely [at] hotmail.com>
> Subject: BikeAthens Discussion: tsplost proposed projects
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> There are a LOT of road projects on the $120 million list but I'm pleased to 
> see the following:
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> ? $13 million to add bicycle lanes to Prince Avenue, Milledge Avenue and 
> Lexington Road.
> Most road-widening projects would include sidewalks and bike lanes
> ? $1.8 million to convert an abandoned rail line into a trail connecting the 
> Multimodal Transportation Center and Barnett Shoals Road.
> ? $2 million to expand a planned park-and-ride lot at Oconee Street and the 
> Athens Perimeter.
> ? $5 million for service every half-hour on all Athens Transit routes, 
> expanded night and Saturday service and service on Sundays.
> ? $2.5 million for bus service to Winterville and Athena Industrial Park.
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> Full article here:
> http://onlineathens.com/stories/031011/new_797204213.shtml
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> From: John Huie <johnphuie [at] gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: BikeAthens Discussion: tsplost proposed projects
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> Thursday's "work session" presentation slides are available at
> http://www.athensclarkecounty.com/index.aspx?nid=3065
> and include some additional info on all the projects that ACC Transp. and
> Public Works is recommending for T-SPLOST funding.
> 
> *I've copied the bike projects below.*
> I was concerned that no sidewalk projects are included, but David Clark says
> 
> it is "challenging' to justify sidewalks as regional, and that sidewalks
> will be funded (if T-SPLOST passes in August 2012) from the 25% of funds
> that each county will have carte blanche to use.
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> One can make up one's own mind about the necessity of the various road
> projects that are being recommended; but it is at least instructive to note
> how much farther money can go for bike lanes, transit, and sidewalks as
> compared to expensive road projects (like $10 million for the dubious
> Jennings Mill Parkway...)  Having said that, the amounts of money rec'd for
> transit and bike lanes would have been un-dreamed-of in the days before
> BikeAthens...
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> Lexington Road?
> widen for bike lanes between SR10 Loop and Gaines School Road ($3.5
> million))
> ? Milledge Avenue?
> widen for bike lanes between Lumpkin Street and Prince Avenue ($4.5
> million)
> $
> ? Prince Avenue?
> widen for bike lanes between Pulaski Street and SR 10 Loop ($5.0 million)
> ? Rail to Trail? conversion of the abandoned rail line
> to a multi?use trail connecting the  Multi?modal
> Center to Dudley Park and to the existing bicycle
> facilities along Barnett Shoals Road ($1.8 million)
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> John Huie
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> -- 
> Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds
> from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.         ~Oscar
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