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edmonds@cs.ubc.ca (Brian Edmonds) wrote:

>It seems short-sighted to me to make life difficult for
>the transit drivers, when public transit is one of the alternatives that
>we are supposed to be promoting.  

I didn't see the difficulty.  The only bus that I recall had
absolutely no problem getting to the curb and back out to the middle
lane to continue merrily on his/her way.


>Maybe it did raise awareness in some
>few people, but I'm afraid it likely succeeded in pissing far more
>people off.

So your inference is that all those short honks were honks of derision
and not support?  Overall, I thought the car drivers were pretty
friendly.


>We should be able to go at traffic speed and obey the
>same rules as the rest of traffic, but do it over a decent distance.

In other words, as long as you can conform to the existing system -
making sure that you don't impede those cars too much - it's all right
to cycle.  Otherwise you have no business on the road.  


>This would have the effect of attracting attention in that we
>would be occupying "car space" so we will inconvenience people, but at
>the same time we will be demonstrating why we're on bikes in the first
>place.

And as this pack of muscled cyclists wizzes by, the chances that you
are going to convince spindly-legged and beer-bellied Joe Citizen that
he too should commute by bike are approximately nil.


Darran Edmundson
dedmunds@sfu.ca