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- From: b_nbca@icarus.lbl.gov (Bruce Nordman)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment
- Subject: Re: Cars and suburbs
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 23:51:13 GMT
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- References: <1993Jan22.083941.13852@truffula.sj.ca.us> <1993Jan22.181151.6670@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <kraas.727971827@gmd.de> <C1HBDo.6sB@rice.edu> <strobl.728089915@gmd.de>
- Reply-To: b_nbca@icarus.lbl.gov (Bruce Nordman)
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- strobl@gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:(regarding many bike paths in Germany)
- > In addition, many bike paths are former sidewalks, so one
- > has to pay attention to slow pedestrians, which makes it
- > quite impossible to ride at a decent speed.
-
- Hmmmm. I wonder how car drivers would react if they had to
- share roads with pedestrians too! This seems to be an international
- problem as there are number of important places in the SF Bay Area
- with bike paths that have either no pedestrian path next to them,
- or a substandard one (such that the peds all walk on the bike path).
- I suspect that the designers of such paths don't ride bikes, and
- think that all bike riders are small children and/or that they don't
- go fast.
-
- Bruce Nordman
- B_Nordman@lbl.gov
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