It makes a difference to me, but not to you...
hence the opportunity for shifting your point of
view/paradigm for the sharing of public road space.

At 02:17 PM 6/3/2006, Herman I. May wrote:
>On 20060603@01:43CDT, Jim Baross <JimBaross@...> wrote:
>
> > Ready for a paradigm shift?
>
>Your example is not a shift in paradigm; it is a comparison of apples
>and oranges.
>
>While I will not dispute the lack of logic prompting jurisdictions to
>disallow bicyclists the ability to operate two abreast, your
>contention that such is comparable to two or three individuals riding
>side-by-side within the confines of a single motor vehicle is
>specious. There is no law — at least none of which I am aware —
>prohibiting anyone from operating a bicycle taxi capable of
>accommodating two to three passengers, side-by-side.
>
>The prohibition at play concerns two individual cyclists operating two
>separate vehicles side-by-side within the same traffic lane. It makes
>little difference if those two vehicles constitute a width less than
>or equal to a single, enclosed motor vehicle.
>
>Herman