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chainguard@yahoogroup...
Sep 9, 2007 7:14 pm
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I'm happy to report that the new "Motor Vehicles Only" sign that I reported the appearance of earlier this summer (a sign that, untriadally, prohibited cycling...
The FHWA has just released papers describing the research concerning the development of a method of estimating, or rating, the safety of an intersection for...
Also, the criteria for logging negative events (something like 'evasion' or 'avoidance' maneuvers) sounds suspiciously like other studies that probably allowed...
... I think your comments are spot on. Also, if the “bike lane” is a shoulder of 3 feet width (or a substandard width bike lane), crossing traffic volume...
Hi all, ... Safety Research Center and endorsed by the FHWA. >>>>> What a shame. The first sentence of Forester's post made me think FHWA was doing something...
Schubley@...
Sep 14, 2007 3:38 pm
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... I think its useful to contructively criticize if you can do so. Wayne...
The Thunderhead Alliance has just released a study of the amounts of bicycling and walking compared to many other statistics. It may be downloaded from:...
John Forester wrote: [snip] ... it. TF: Pedestrian operation on any public right-of-way, including longitudinally on the roadway when a sidewalk isn't...
Hi all, ... longitudinally on the roadway when a sidewalk isn't available, is a basic tenet of the Common-Law Right to Travel.<<< . . . with which I agree...
Schubley@...
Sep 16, 2007 1:13 pm
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The sidewalk "law" quoted in the USA is puzzle to me...being in a country that also has the law of England to thank for the way land tenure is expressed, we...
... John Schubert has mentioned this a few times in the past. I take his word for it that some combination of governments have come together and constructed...
Does anyone have a good source on the common-law right to travel by ordinary means, and on how this would apply to pedestrians, bicycles, Amish horse-drawn...
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_38/b4050078.htm?chan=search Interesting article about Shimano trying to come up with a bicycle that more...
... I doubt the average person distinguishes between getting hit from behind and being "sidewiped." There's really not much difference anyway. Both are from...
... Here in NC, state law requires municipalities to pay for sidewalk construction on state-maintained roads, meaning most important through roads carrying...
... I'm not sure how you clearly distinguish the ""hit from behind" category from the "hit during passing" category. Perhaps you're assuming that "hit from...
Hi all, ... law structure covering public ways that ought to have discounted out-of-hand a set up of the kind John describes. <<< Ought to have, yes, but.... ...
John Schubert
Schubley@...
Sep 18, 2007 7:22 pm
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... To add further complication, even if the correct answer is [a], the reported answer might be [b]....
I will venture a response to Serge's question: ... There is a very real difference between getting hit from behind and being sideswiped. Going a bit further, I...
... I will pursue this with someone who has been challenging the state's right to treat drivers' licenses as contracts under which they give up both their...
This discussion concerns the meaning of the words of a, or some, members of the general public regarding cycling matters, as reported by a newspaper reporter....
I use a mirror, and this has happened to me. Particularly, Pittsburgh has a lot of four-lane bridges with arched roadways. As I crest the arch I am "lower"...
... Sorry for being unclear. Of course there are certain examples that are clearly "hit from behind" and are not "sideswipes". But is any "sideswipe" clearly...
... No. Not quite. I am saying to assess a _very_specific_ individual _all_ the cost for a _very_specific_ piece of public infrastructure improvement is NOT a...
That's where it started, but this discussion has evolved to discussing the meaning of "hit from behind" or "hit during passing" (or "sideswiped") by the...
... You can scour all the law libraries in the country and you won't find direct evidence of the existence of a constitutional right to eat chocolate either....
The right to cycle on the public roads is not quite like Serge's example of the right of the individual to eat chocolate. It is not simply a right that has not...
