[Yak] why I prefer US cycle paths

[John S. Allen]

At 07:27 PM 4/3/2009, Jym Dyer wrote:
>=v= So we went through a gazillion messages about the eeevils
>of helmet use or nonuse.  Now are we to go through a gazillion
>messages about the eeevils of bike facilities?

Well, I hope not, but if so, you have just written one of those messages!

>=v= Some topics just never get tiresome.  No, wait, the other
>one:  Some topics have been tiresome for decades.

The issue is not good or evil of Bicycle Facilities as a general 
category, as you appear to have framed it and as people on both sides 
of the flame wars that both you and I would like to avoid tend to 
frame it. Some facilities are good, useful, safe, and others, such as 
the two I described are decidedly evil, because they give the initial 
appearance of being much safer than they are to the casual bicyclists 
who come to ride on them.

What is really tiresome is that bad facilities get built, and that 
people get injured and killed riding on them. The public deserves to 
be informed and to develop its discerning judgment.

John S. Allen

jsallen *at* bikexprt.com

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