Recap: Tour of Flanders (Ronde van Vlaanderen)
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It is hard to believe but after more than 20 years of successful federal investment in biking and walking facilities, Congressional leaders are poised to eliminate dedicated funding for biking and walking.If you care about active transportation and recreation, please take 10 minutes today to email your U.S. Senators and U.S. Representative and tell them to contact the leaders of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (Senators James Inhofe and Barbara Boxer) and the House Committee on Transportation (Congressman John Mica) and urge them to keep dedicated and cost-effective funding for biking and walking.It really is that serious. Without federal investment, we will witness a major retreat from the national effort to provide safe, accessible facilities for cyclists and pedestrians. We will lose countless opportunities to build simple, cost-effective transportation solutions for commuting, recreation, and travel.We have heard from some folks that federal investment in cycling should not be considered sacred, given America's fiscal situation. We agree! We just believe cycling investments should be considered for proportional cuts, along with other vital transportation programs, and not be eliminated entirely.Frankly, it is disappointing to hear leaders like Senator Inhofe call cycling investments "frivolous." These investments help generate more than 4 billion bicycle trips a year. They generate more jobs per million-dollars-invested than classic highway projects.To help keep the American cycling revival moving forward, we need your help today. Please click on this link to send a ready-made e-mail to your Senators and Representative NOW.This same alert is going out to hundreds of thousands of cycling friends through our national coalition at America Bikes. Do your part, take 5 minutes, and support cycling in America! Thanks for your help.-- JIM SAYER is executive director of Adventure Cycling Association.Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2011/07/act-today-save-national-bike-programs.html
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During the clinic, the following question came up, "In the narratives, what are those numbers in the parentheses for?" Good question! Those numbers represent the distances in kilometers, and are provided for our Canadian and European users. This question also opened the door for me to mention a recent conversation in our department: Should we drop the kilometers in order to give us a bit more room to increase narrative type size? We haven't come to a conclusion, and no one in the map reading clinic had a strong opinion at the time.However, after the clinic, Heather -- who is interning in the publications department for the summer as part of her graduate program at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia, Canada -- wanted to put in her two cents on the topic:"I?d be sad to hear of the Adventure Cycling maps losing the kilometers feature. Canada doesn?t really have an equivalent [organization], and generally seems to get the short end of the stick from the U.S. time and again, so dropping kilometers seems like burning yet another bridge between the two countries. That is my fresh-from-Canada perspective."I?ve also taken a straw poll among a few touring cyclists I know. They say that while yes, bike computers do have the capability to display either miles or kilometers, it?s usually not very easy to switch between them. Another person noted that if she wasn?t from the U.S., it would mess with her brain: she knows about how long her home unit of measurement is, and trying to switch to another would be difficult as she doesn?t solely rely on bike computers."All parties polled didn?t want to see the information get dropped from the map, despite all of us being from the U.S."What do you think? I'd love to hear your opinions and input as comments to this post, on our Facebook page, or on Twitter at @acaroutes.Graphics by routes & mapping staff--
GEOPOINTS BULLETIN is written by Jennifer 'Jenn' Milyko, an Adventure Cycling cartographer, and appears weekly, highlighting curious facts, figures and persons from Adventure Cycling's Route Network with tips and hints for personal route creation thrown in for good measure. She also wants to remind you that map corrections and comments are always welcome via the online Map Correction Form.Source: http://blog.adventurecycling.org/2011/07/miles-and-kilometers-do-you-want-them.html
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