Re: Overheard on the scanner

In article <fvr58i$q5b$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Does your town have a system of completely grade-separated bike paths,
> allowing cyclists to get from anywhere to anywhere else without ever
> encountering car traffic?  And is this system also completely free of
> pedestrians who step into traffic without looking, or who walk their
> dogs on the paths?  And it's lit at night?  If so, it might be safer
> than on-road biking.  Otherwise not.

Yes.  A "system" of one.  But the key bit is that I'm not an idiot who 
rides into traffic.  Or walks into it.  Idiots don't require a bike path 
in order to mess up like that.


> As I mentioned, Forester's _Effective Cycling_ has lots of references
> to bike paths and bike lanes being less safe than on-road biking.

I can't speak to bike lanes, as I won't use them, but bike paths, where 
there are no motorized vehicles at all, have reduced velocity 
differential so therefore have less likelihood of impacts as dangerous 
as on regular roads.

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