[SDCBC] Has the SDCBC ever done outrieach at college transportation offices?

[Robert Leone]

Dear All:
	Hi! Has the SDCBC ever done outreach throught either college bike shops 
or college transportation and parking offices? Not that college 
freshpeople ever learn anything from classes....

Robert Leone

John Eldon wrote:
> Thank you, Gene. Spot-on. I read every day, and occasionally encounter, 
> motorists who desperately need education on bicyclists' rights, not to 
> mention on their own moral obligation to drive attentively and responsibly.
>  
> John E.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Gene Carman <gcarman at san.rr.com>
> To: serge Issakov <serge at issakov.org>; sdcbc at bikesandiego.org
> Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2007 5:57:27 PM
> Subject: [SDCBC] Fwd: Re: FW: Bikes vs Cars. An NBC news story in L.A.
> 
> Here Dan points to the fundamental problem of lack of education...  of 
> users of the roadway.  As long as all the users of the roadway are not 
> familiar with each others rights and the rules involved...  then the 
> problem will continue to exist. 
> 
> You and Dan and even John Forester will continue to insist that cyclists 
> must be trained in some separate manner from motorists and that 
> motorists don't need any further training... but since there is very 
> little infrastructure to reach cyclists, more new cyclists will hit the 
> road than can ever be trained in a life time, by the current methods.   
> 
> The ideal way to reach *all users of the road* is to simply incorporate 
> training in an already well established "path" of training... either 
> into the current school system where "use of the roads" should be a 
> subject as important as health classes and PE, or in a longer form of 
> drivers ed that goes beyond the basics and teaches the ethics and 
> responsibilities of all the road users. 
> 
> Until then, only a few cyclists will ever gain the knowledge of which 
> Dan speaks.  Apparently even Monica Howe, the outeach coordinator of the 
> LA County Bicycle Coalition, who should be well familiar with this 
> information...  was not.  How then do we expect college freshmen, just 
> cycling to class, to ever gain this knowledge?
> 
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> 
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