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An architect who designs pedestrian and bicyclist friendly transportation plans says there’s more to a bill to increase the state’s speed limit on some roads than allowing drivers to go 80 miles an hour on interstates.
Norm Cox, with Greenway Collaborative in Ann Arbor, says the speed limit going up in rural and urban areas impacts walkers and bicyclists.
Cox’s comments caught the ire of State Representative Ken Goike.
He doesn’t bicyclists should have a say and went off on a tangent about bicycle riders not paying gasoline taxes yet wanting wider roads and refusing to use bike paths – both of which require taxpayer dollars to do.
Cox countered that it doesn’t matter if a bicyclists pays gasoline taxes or not, they can still get hit by a car driving too fast.
A package of bills to increase the speed limit on some roads in the state have gone through two hearings in a House committee and are expected to go through at least one more round of debate.
