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Re: City Cracks Down on Bike Couriers--pedestrian killed in Manhattan

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From: Keith Lynch
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 1997 00:00
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In article <65je70$pqa@snews1.zippo.com>,
Vasos Panagiotopoulos +1-917-287-8087 Bioengineer-Financier <vjp2@dorsai.org @smtp.dorsai.org> wrote:
> No - cylces on road (asphalt) on side streets - but
> dismount/walk/sidewalk on narrow avenues (because motorists will try
> to force cyclists onto the sidewalk on narrow avenues anyway)

That's what the police should be dealing with.  Motorists who are
trying to indtimidate cyclists into not using the public roads.

If cyclists are on the sidewalk, it's almost always because they've
been intimdated by motorists.

And you suggest that the law *support* the motorists in doing this?

If a lane is too narrow for motorists and cyclists to travel side by
side, then cyclists belong in the center of the lane.  If a motorist
is unwilling to share, they don't have to use that lane, or that road.
There's a multi-billion dollar network of trails for the exclusive use
of motorists.  It's called the interstate highway system.  I suggest
motorists unwilling to share the roads use it.
--
Keith Lynch, kfl@clark.net
http://www.clark.net/pub/kfl/
I boycott all spammers.
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From: kfl@clark.net (Keith Lynch)
Subject: Re: City Cracks Down on Bike Couriers--pedestrian killed in Manhattan
Date: 1997/11/30
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