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Re: Shifting Gears to Cycling Would be Big Climate Boost

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On 11/16/2015 12:57 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:
> On 11/16/15 11:31 AM, nuny@bid.nes wrote:
>> On Sunday, November 15, 2015 at 12:18:01 PM UTC-8, Sam Wormley wrote:
>>> Shifting Gears to Cycling Would be Big Climate Boost
>>>> http://www.climatecentral.org/news/cycling-climate-boost-19682
>>>
>>>> Something green is happening in larger cities throughout the U.S. --
>>>> green-colored bike lanes are spreading like bubble tea shops
>>>> throughout Manhattan. Salt Lake City just installed America's first
>>>> urban street intersection designed to protect cyclists. Motor vehicle
>>>> lanes are shrinking in Los Angeles to accommodate more bike
>>>> commuters.
>>>>
>>>> The climate would benefit in a big way if urban commuters worldwide
>>>> would leave their cars at home and use those dedicated bike lanes to
>>>> cycle to work, and if more cities would prioritize bike commuting in
>>>> their urban planning, according to a University of California-Davis
>>>> report published Thursday.
>>
>>    Practice what you preach, Sam? I've been commuting mostly by bike
>> for 35 years now.
>>
>>    Mind you in Phoenix, I found it helpful to open-carry a nickel
>> plated .45 so car drivers could "see" me.
>>
>>
>>    Mark L. Fergerson
>>
>
>    I still bike too -- but less than I used to... in the 70s 120 miles a
>    week was pretty typical. Now, maybe a few miles per week.  I pretty
>    much avoid traffic these days.

Face it Sammy. You talk a good "global warming" game but like all Libs 
when it comes to actually DOING something you want everyone else to do 
the pedaling.



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Shifting Gears to Cycling Would be Big Climate Boost Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 14:17 -0600
  Re: Shifting Gears to Cycling Would be Big Climate Boost Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-15 20:38 +0000
    Re: Shifting Gears to Cycling Would be Big Climate Boost Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-15 14:43 -0600
      Re: Shifting Gears to Cycling Would be Big Climate Boost Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-11-15 21:08 +0000
  Re: Shifting Gears to Cycling Would be Big Climate Boost jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-15 21:02 +0000
    Re: Shifting Gears to Cycling Would be Big Climate Boost john <johnsefton288@gmail.com> - 2015-11-16 04:21 -0800
      Re: Shifting Gears to Cycling Would be Big Climate Boost Poutnik <Poutnik4NNTP@gmail.com> - 2015-11-16 14:31 +0100
  Re: Shifting Gears to Cycling Would be Big Climate Boost "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2015-11-16 09:31 -0800
    Re: Shifting Gears to Cycling Would be Big Climate Boost Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-16 11:57 -0600
      Re: Shifting Gears to Cycling Would be Big Climate Boost benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-16 21:49 -0500
    Re: Shifting Gears to Cycling Would be Big Climate Boost benj <none@gmail.com> - 2015-11-16 13:03 -0500

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