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Biketopia Boulder?

Thursday night was the second  ULI Boulder Salon at Shine. Martha Roskowski of Bikes Belong presented a fantastic overview of the bike situation - from Copenhagen and Amsterdam to New York and Chicago to Boulder.  What lessons can we learn?  How can we intensely increase our biking in what many consider biking nirvana -  except in the Downtown and east of Folsom and Broadway and so many other palaces. while the off street network is great and always getting better, the on-street network is largely an add-on that makes people not really feel safe (28th Street anyone?)  1% biking in the US, 10% in Boulder compared to 50% in Copenhagen!! Well we still have a way to go.  And to get to 25% here by 2020 is a radical goal.  There was a great discussion but the transition to a truly bike centric town from the American suburban nation that is much of Boulder will be an interesting challenge!

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Sunday 12.09.12
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