[SDCBC] Have you folks seen this report on cycling

[John Eldon]

I do concur with the "complete the streets" concept in one regard: the identification and re-engineering of hazardous intersections and crossings. My first priority would be to spend money to address these broken links in our human-powered transportation systems. I do know of specific people, such as radio commentator Tom Fudge, who have given up cycle commuting expressly because of specific hazardous streets or intersections. If I worked in the SDSU area, as he does, I could understand being discouraged from cycling, at least during peak or, worse, near-peak hours, when traffic is both heavy and fast. Fortunately, I live and work where I can generally select routes which are both efficient and safe; this is not possible everywhere in the county, such as on southbound Kearny Villa Rd. at 163 or near Fairmount and Montezuma.

John E.

----- Original Message ----
From: John Forester <forester at johnforester.com>
To: Gene Carman <gcarman at san.rr.com>; sdcbc at bikesandiego.org
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 7:41:34 AM
Subject: Re: [SDCBC] Have you folks seen this report on cycling

Here is the review of the Thunderhead report that I posted on 
chainguard a few days ago:


The Thunderhead Alliance has just released a study of the amounts of 
bicycling and walking compared to many other statistics.

It may be downloaded from: http://www.thunderheadalliance.org/benchmarking.htm

The paper is based on the following assumption: "Strong policies to 
provide provisions for and promote cycling and walking can help 
transform communities into healthier and more livable places." This 
is not all, because the scope is widened beyond cycling and walking 
to include more aspects: "The bicycle and pedestrian advocacy 
movement and its partners for transit and disabled-rights have 
adopted the term 'complete streets' because it accurately frames the 
discussion to show that a street is not complete unless all modes of 
transport are provided for. A complete street provides safe access 
for pedestrians, cyclists, children, the elderly, disabled people, 
transit users, and motorists."




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