05-17-2020, 09:27 PM
(05-17-2020, 12:53 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(05-17-2020, 10:49 AM)KevinL Wrote: Another influence on the regional mindset, I think, is that they only manage the regional roads (ie, the BIG roads). This makes them feel all RRs must be high capacity, built for heavy trucks, and do not need to consider 'smaller' concerns. If both big and small roads fell under one umbrella, I think we would have a different mindset.
Yeah, I mean that comes back to their misguided beliefs about cycling...that it isn't a "big" concern...the number of regional staff who fully believe that cycling should be a city thing because people don't bike "within" the region, well I know that it isn't every engineer, but it's entirely too many. They are in charge of regional transportation, so they should be building high capacity high speed safe cycling links within the region.
The individual engineers don't set the regional transportation strategies and priorities, though, they only implement those. Who sets them? The regional council? Regional staff managers?