02-04-2007, 03:05 PM
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#151 (permalink)
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In article <52n0hjF1p159oU1@mid.individual.net>, rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com
says...
> The Real Bev <bashley101+xp@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Wayne Pein wrote:
> >> Don Klipstein wrote:
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> >>> What I see as the best use of bike racks on buses is for getting
> >>> bike users through bike-unfriendly bridges, also a few tunnels that
> >>> I think are no better for bikes than plenty of bridges!
> >>
> >> There is no such thing as a bike unfriendly bridge or road. It's
> >> people who are friendly or unfriendly, and they choose be either way.
> >
> > I don't think that's true. To accommodate more and more traffic, a
> > number of roads have been widened just enough to provide two lanes of
> > traffic each way with NO additional space between the cars and the
> > curb. No matter how friendly a driver might be, there isn't enough
> > space to pass a bicyclist without moving into the next lane, which is
> > probably already occupied by a car. This is dangerous for everybody,
> > and most bicyclists stay off such roads.
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> And they are banned on any sensibly organised freeway etc.
Which makes the half of the U.S. that allows bicycles on Interstates
less than sensible, even though the accident rate is neglible?
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josh@phred.org is Joshua Putnam
<http://www.phred.org/~josh/>
Braze your own bicycle frames. See
<http://www.phred.org/~josh/build/build.html>
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