Note: This article contains an excellent digitally altered picture depicting how the Copenhagen-style bike lanes will look. -RJM The Melbourne City Council...
... It takes a higher level of understanding and greater experience to ride safe on a sidepath along any given road then on the roadway itself. 'Real'...
... Decades of real world experience and data collection proves otherwise. Cities with extensive sidepath and bike lane systems (Copenhagen, Davis, et al) have...
... No. All scientific data collected so far has supported that sidepaths have worse safety rates. The better the scientific methods used, the more clear the...
... In addition, the strange and difficult engineering designs added in an attempt to ameliorate the danger adding the sidepath created, are almost sure to...
A few months have passed so I thought I'd check in and give a report from Seoul. I see poor Bob Matter still seems to be willing to battle with all knowing...
I told 'em. Go to the link if you want to see my response... ... Jim Gagnepain http://home.comcast.net/~oil_free_and_happy/ ... AID=/20070226/NEWS01/702260303 ...
From Kimberly Cooper: Anybody got a video camera that can record narration? youtube would be great for making some little instructional videos to educate...
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Last night I rode 75 K from Osan AB to Seoul Korea a night, in a blizzard, on a time trial bike. I started at 5:15 with light flurries and dry roads and I...
I've lived the last nine years in a place that gets greater than your average amount of snow for a US location. Roadways stay passable for my me on my bicycle,...
My view is Bike lanes/paths is a poor-man's way of building a sidewalk with hidden motives. The only exception is Rail/Canal-ways which are acceptable don't...
... I think a rail corridor should have rail running through it, or lie fallow waiting for rail to run through it again some day. I suspect the occasional...
... TF: I agree. But unfortunately, you're not President for Life, and I'm not Top Field Marshal. Is the railroad company that owns the corridor going to agree...
If we need tort law reform to help rail corridors lie fallow (and that only is _IF_ we need that)... and _if_ that works out to be one part of a set of...
Now that a rich body of historical evidence exists proving rails "with" trails are safe, I wouldn't expect cyclestrian activist groups to kick up too much of a...
To suggest that riding in a storm on the roads around Seoul is safer than riding on a multi-use path with no road crossings at all is lunacy. The hundreds of...
... Could you provide the references to that rich body of evidence please? Thanks. (I suspect this is correct, by the way.... I just would like to have the...
... Since solo falling is part of safety.... Also "impassable" often is a practical consideration that comes into play to everywhere I have ever lived during a...
... Thanks ... Right. Like I said... Something other than a rational examination of actual safety statistics on real public facilities of reasonable overall...
... Solo falling is a luxury I enjoy frequently, especially when mountain biking. I only fell once Wednesday night and landeed on my left hip for a change. No...
Thomas "_d_" Church explains the ins and outs of how he managed to fall "only" once on his ride, and concludes the paragraph with: "Get out and ride more and...
My interest in "punks on ATVs" is that I tried for years (despite not owning, nor wishing to own, an ATV myself) to prevent whining segregationists on mountain...
... Plenty of experience with riding and snow. I confidently stand by statement that the roadway always stays more passable with greater comfort than paths and...
push for vehicle rule behavior in pedestrian areas that invitation to bicyclists usually involves. I probably would not evaluate this idea as working well. I...
Sorry, that last email looks like it got trunctated somehow ====================================================== I did envision something that I assumed was...
... I grew up in Rochester New York, which averages just under 8 feet/year. Seoul rarely has snow. When it does, we rush to the mountains and ride it. On...
... kinds It's not all about comfort and safety. Cycling can be uncomfortable, exciting and fun too. Have some fun in the snow. It's a gift. ... A geography...
... You seem to be arguing in circles. You claimed your choice of the path over the roadway was safety based in an earlier email. Now you seem to be saying the...
