Mobility study makes the case for bicycling
from The Houston Chronicle (full article)
The big transportation news last week was that traffic congestion in the Houston area and around the country is getting worse.
That fairly obvious observation — verified every year or two by researchers at the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M, and reaffirmed last week in their 2007 Urban Mobility Study — usually draws two kinds of feedback.
Some drivers blame the supposed waste of highway dollars on mass transit, or the wrong kind of mass transit. Transit advocates, and some who say they’d ride transit if only it went where and when they want it to, blame the waste of potential transit dollars on concrete.
Peter Wang took a third path, pedaling serenely from his home in Copperfield to a meeting 12 miles away near Dairy Ashford and the Katy Freeway.