Re: Overheard on the scanner

On Wed, 07 May 2008 09:12:35 -0400, Howard S Shubs <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:

> 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.

It was a newspaper report weeks or months ago, so I can't cite it --
but the only cycling death I've heard of locally was an experienced,
sensible rider who got run over where a recreationway crosses a road. 
Traffic laws are so written that it takes two mistakes to cause a
collision, and we still get lots and lots of collisions.  

When you cross a road on a recreationway, absolutely all the
responsibility is *yours* -- the people on the road have no clue that
this is an intersection, and can't possibly do their share.   A "blink
and you're dead" system doesn't strike me as particularly safe.  

Crossing a road on a recreationway is quite a lot like running a red
light -- perfectly safe if you do it *right*.

Joy Beeson
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