“Davis invests about $200 per person per year in bike infrastructure.” Compared to Maryland’s $3.47 for BOTH pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure (Based on the Consolidated Transportation Program for the next six years.)
https://faircompanies.com/videos/view/americas-1st-platinum-bicycle-city-davis-ca/oldId.20110207140008937
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Davis is platinum because the LAB folks who hand out the standards hail from Davis. The whole medal thing is promotional in nature and subjective, it smacks of boosterism and LAB encourages this. This jingo’sim does nothing to normalize bike transportation as a national norm but ghettoizes it.
Subjectivity is the opposite of national standardization. Case in point. Corvallis, OR. It is a LAB gold city, and has been so since ’03. It has 97% bike lanes, and a 3rd party national research organization using standardized methodology put local biking at 22% of transportation. Compare this to Davis (approximately the same # of people, but in a smaller and sunnier clime), which has 95% bike lanes and 14% bike commuting from in house surveys alone. Why is Davis platinum and corvallis a gold? What is the meaning of platinum or gold to your average person?
To a T corvallis and davis are considered oddballs, wack-jobs, and hippie towns by their surrounding communities whenever they tout their LAB standards. How does this help normalize biking anywhere besides these enclaves?