"Carmel, Indiana, is showing suburbs how to go big on biking."

Holy Caesar!

A councilman who rides a bike?

Meanwhile, it's almost as if Carmel has a plan. Just imagine if Jeff Gahan had coherent, organized plans pertaining to bicycling, walkability, street trees and other vital matters -- apart from luxury dog parks and public housing putsches.

Gahan only knows monetization ... but a boy can dream of better things.

CARMEL, INDIANA, IS SHOWING SUBURBS HOW TO GO BIG ON BIKING (People for Bikes)

You’ll sometimes hear that it’s almost impossible to make biking truly desirable in American suburbs. Carmel, Indiana, is proving every day how wrong that is.

The booming city of 90,000, immediately north of Indianapolis but with a distinct and dense downtown of its own, is actually evidence of the opposite idea: The country’s newer, faster-growing cities are where connecting great biking networks has the most potential to transform American life.

As explained in the video above, released Monday by the City of Carmel, the scale of Carmel’s investment in better biking since Mayor Jim Brainard first took office in 1996 can almost be hard for an outsider to believe. The city currently has 190 miles of off-street bike paths, with 20 more miles on the way in the next two years ...