Spoke Plan, Washington
Posted by
Deric Gruen
04/11/2007 09:40 AM
Seattle’s Bicycle Master Plan hits the streets.
The Full Draft of the Seattle Master Bicycle Plan was released last week. It's deliciously chock full of purple squares, blue triangles, and orange lines, which add up to new bicycle lanes and boulevards. Just as enticing are the plan's goals of tripling the number of bicycle trips by 2017, while reducing by one-third the rate of crashes. But the full plan -- the $240 million, 10-year version -- lacks at least two critical elements to become reality: 1) the weight of law; and 2) $213 million dollars.
That's right: so far, only $27 million has been dedicated to the bike plan (though this seems to have escaped some less perceptive commentators and headline writers).
