[SDCBC] "Actuarial inevitability" my #(#$&@ !

[Neil Brooks]

--- JonIsaacs at aol.com wrote:

> And too, this path needs serious improvement if it to serve the cycling 
> community as a viable alternative to surface roads.  

I think that's sort of the bottom line here.

When I lived in that general area, I wound up writing to the PB outpost of the SDPD more than a
few times when the ... um ... extrinsic hazards would get so bad that I would ask my wife NOT to
ride the path alone.

The eastern area, on the south edge of the path proper, just west of Mission Bay Drive, has oft
become a serious encampment, with broken bottles, furniture, rather large numbers of rather
antisocial de facto residents, and (I've seen this more than a few times) people vomiting in the
middle of the pathway.

Charming.

Further west, happily, you have the graffiti-tagging, pot-smoking, beer-drinking, truant MBHS kids
who frolic under Grand Avenue (Sure, I once WAS one, but....).  They aren't always beacons of good
cheer and hospitality when cyclists infringe....

I think that whole SECTION of the RC path from Mission Bay Drive to ... what is it ... North
Mission Bay Drive? ... is a virtual do-over.  I tend to avoid it, too, especially when coming up
from the South, through MB Park, but ... the EAST (I'm lost!) Mission Bay Drive stretch ... where
the I-5 traffic comes off the Garnet exit ... is, IMO, one of the trickiest in the area.

Hobson's choice.  Was Hobson a cyclist, I wonder?

Neil