[SDCBC] Mission Bay @ I-5 offramp

[John Eldon]

Thanks for posting, Jim.

I recall reading the news report regarding that tragic incident. If my
memory is functioning properly, their names are Dave and Betty White. How
was she when you met her?

When I do ride north through that intersection, I normally stop and wait for
a generous gap in traffic, then dive across the car-vomiting open mouth of
I-5 for the right shoulder. This is admittedly not particularly elegant,
vehicular or "effective," but handling it Serge's way scares the cr at p out of
me, unless traffic is either very gappy or congestion-slowed. Where Serge
and I differ is that I adamantly oppose this sort of intersection and
advocate traffic calming and re-engineering. Since I spend roughly equal
time on/along the roads as a pedestrian and as a cyclist, I realize this
gives me a somewhat different perspetive.

John E.

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[mailto:sdcbc-bounces at bikesandiego.org]On Behalf Of Jim Krause
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To: Serge Issakov; John Eldon
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Subject: Re: [SDCBC] "Actuarial inevitability" my #(#$&@ !


I have been reading all of your discussion with great interest.

A year ago I met a woman who was almost killed at that intersection with
the exit for highway 5.  She was riding on the rear of a tandem with her
husband.  I always think about this, and as a result always use the bike
path.  Jim K.