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Draw-Ornery t1_iuzwyh3 wrote

Personally… The bike paths… can’t stand them. It’s too cold half the year to bike and there’s maybe a handful of people who use them. I blame Elorza

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Locksmith-Pitiful OP t1_iv0rmsp wrote

As someone who uses bike paths year round, I see plenty of people using them.

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Dinosquid t1_iv55k4v wrote

>and there’s maybe a handful of people who use them.

Woah, I must be hallucinating when I see people use them all day every day, even in the pouring rain!

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Draw-Ornery t1_iv9dh5u wrote

I’m glad that the 12% of bike users in prov are enjoying them(pg 15) (https://pvdstreets.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/21-8057-Providence-Great-Streets-Initiative-Report.pdf Maybe you see those type of people in downtown or on the east side ( though I usually see people walk or use the electric scooters atp) but in the North and South I see even less than a handful. And that joke of an initiative near PC should shine a light on how much they’re “needed”. The bike path that cost thousands to make, and then we get rid of it a week later, costing thousands more. Most of the bike paths we have have been heavily opposed including students themselves https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/11/mcgough-23-biking-in-providence-is-bad-and-brown-is-part-of-the-problem. Im here for the planet, and sustainability but providence is too small, and filled up w too many people who use cars for there to be a lane taken away and given up for 1 person to use. I could see the funds being used for a lot more, like the craters on the roads, but Elorza doesn’t have my vote, and idc what anyone says 🤷🏽‍♀️ kinda new to Reddit so go ahead and dislike this comment? Idek what the arrows are for tbh

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Dinosquid t1_iva232n wrote

That’s about 22,000 people in Providence alone who use bikes. Does that even count all the folks from the surrounding areas who bike in to providence?

A huge difference from the “handful” you originally purported.

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