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Thinking years ahead rather than just about tomorrow's commuters

Please consider how we could plan for the longterm future with this important connecting path. Instead of business as usual, why not make a really useable bike path and a separate bus-only road through the area? This could help preserve neighborhoods and most of the existing habitat, allow for transportation, and provide a model or test for an innovative solution. If it works here, such connectors could be expanded to other parts of the city. More roads for easy, single-driver commuting will only lead to more cars, pollution, noise, and eventual gridlock.

Paving paradise

Diplomacy doesn’t work in Bozeman. The agenda is set. Human hegemony will continue to reign supreme—as the city systematically murders the last of our local ecological habitats, stomping out our collective cultural nature-based heritage. Nobody will want to live here someday. Because every decision is myopic and nearsighted. Why not raise extra money and create an artistic and nature-based thoroughfare that people far and wide will want to visit and enjoy? Instead of the anxiety ridden plans for speed and efficiency. The death knell of our joy and purpose and happiness. Where is your heart Bozeman? Where is your imagination…

Buses and Shared Use Paths Move More People

Given the mechanics of how travel demand models (TDM) work it seems inevitable that three car lanes will not provide sufficient capacity to avoid future congestion. Paradoxically, this means we should have fewer lanes for cars.According to Streetmix, for a same 80' right of way, a section with 13' shared use paths and two bus rapid transit lanes provides capacity for 83,500 people per hour, compared to the capacity of a road like North 19th Ave with five car lanes (and weird, intermittent shared use paths) that only provide capacity for 36,000 people per hour.If the TDM says we need…