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- From: marcs@slc.com (Marc San Soucie)
- Subject: Re: new year's resolutions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.225132.26698@slc.com>
- Organization: Servio Corp, Beaverton Oregon, US
- References: <1992Dec31.164558.24123@news.ysu.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 22:51:32 GMT
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- Frank Krygowski (ae505@yfn.ysu.edu) writes:
-
- > Marc San Soucie seems to prefer a wide shoulder separated by a
- > white line. I don't, BECAUSE the white line keeps cars off.
-
- > At least around here, there's so much gravel, chips of glass &
- > other trash over that line, that I can't ride there for fear of
- > flats. If the lane is wide to the left of the line (or if there
- > is no line) some of the cars will randomly sweep off the trash.
-
- A beneficial side-effect of poor road design doesn't make it good road
- design. Trash should be swept off the road by the local road crew. You can
- help make that happen by persistently reporting dirty bicycle lanes and
- shoulders, and getting your cycling friends to do the same.
-
- Sometimes there's a real benefit to free street sweeping by cars, but the
- risks associated with it seem too great.
-
-
- > When I'm riding there, they keep further left - they don't run
- > into me. (I like to assume a cyclist is as much to be avoided
- > as a white line.)
-
- Certainly, but motorists are not in the habit of seeing cyclists, while
- seeing white lines has been ingrained into the collective motoring
- subconscious. I'd rather gamble on good instincts than good sense.
-
- Marc San Soucie
- Portland, Oregon
- marcs@slc.com
-