02-04-2007, 04:03 PM
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#157 (permalink)
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Rod Speed wrote:
> josh@phred.org wrote:
>> 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.
>>> 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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> Interstates aint freeways.
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Actually many of them are.
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