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If they ride on sidewalks, pedesnians rightly get by bike lanes. angry According Human-powered transportation will only get more popular as gas prices rise and the negative conse~ quenccs of our car-centric culture increase. We should be doing everything we can to discourage sinvglcwmcupam automobile use while encouraging public transit and the pedestrian and pedahpowcmd movement. v Consider this: We have wide roads every- where to accommodate cars. must 0! which carry only one person. The mality is driversw am slowrd mun- hv im-rvasm in car Iraffit' than Teachers try to explain logic in all classes. including arts. music and physical edu» cation. Spirituality is «against logic and does not fit a. school's RMJfMUNU HILL You can read lam, columns and stories from 711? Sun-7Hâ€" bune on wrt'ngiwz.mm How? 1 With logic. Taxpayers and pa rents agree that logic surely does students good. lETTERS TO THE EDITOR Keep religion HAVE YOUR SAY, out of publk schools WHITCHUIICH- “R0. 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In some European cltles. plan- ners at? finding making life more difficult fur drivers while providing incentives for people to talu‘: tran- Qll, walk or t‘vt'le creates numerous According to the Globe and Mail. a study byfitantec (lonsuhing Ltd. found ttaffic delays because of bike lanes in Vancouverwere mostly imag- med. Drivers surveyed thought it took Ihem five minutes longer to travel along a street with a new bike lane. But the study shown! it actually look from five seconds less In just a min ulc and 137 seconds mom. [javid Suzuki BEN NIU khleUND HILL In Vancouver. the Stantec study found businesses along new down- town bike routes initially experienced minor decreases in sales. but numer- ous strategies were available to (wet- mme the declines. In Zurich. Switzerland. planners have added traffic lights. includ- ing some that transit operators can change in their favour. increased the time of red lights and decreased the greens. removed pedestrian under- passes. slowed speed limits, reduced parking and banned cars from many streets. Building bike lanes also has eco- nomic spinofis. according to a study from the Political Economy Research Institute In Amherst. Massachusetts. titled Pedestrian and Bicycle Infra. structure: A National Study of Employ- mentlmpacm. Researchers found bicycling infra- «tructure creates the most jobs for a une or me mam reasons I: morr of the money for roadhuildtng goes to materials and eqmpment. when?" with bicycle and pedestrian infra~ structure. more Rom to wages. Written with cmtnbutms from Dam! Suml moon coronal and commmmtmm 50mm Miami-Mm!» Loammataawawmk‘ m: benefits * from reducing pollution and smogâ€"mlated health problems to cutting greenhouse gas emissions and making cities safer and friendlier. 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