[SDCBC] Pedal Power in the News

[Serge Issakov]

We're in agreement, John.  I didn't say that making certain intersections
more bike friendly implies that all other intersections are inherently
unsafe.  I said that making certain intersections safe specifically with
bike boxes implies that all other intersections (without bike boxes) are
unsafe, because almost all other intersections, in which through or straight
travel is allowed from the rightmost lane, so far as I can tell, share the
same characteristics that the bike boxes are supposedly addressing.  And
your high-speed free merges and diverges are what I had in mind when I
wrote, "with a few isolated exceptions [in roads and designs] here and
there, none of which are addressed by bike boxes".

Serge


On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:29 PM, John Eldon <j.eldon at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Serge, I share your contempt for right-hook-generating bike boxes,
> Copenhagen-style bikeways, etc. However, I reject your "logical implication"
> that wanting to make certain intersections more bicycle- and/or
> pedestrian-friendly implies that all other intersections are inherently
> unsafe. I strongly advocate a multipronged approach to safety, incorporating
> elements of cyclist education, motorist education, individual
> accountability, and bicycle- and pedestrian-conscious traffic engineering.
> Eliminating a few high-speed free merges and diverges would benefit all of
> us.
>
> John E.
>
> --- On *Mon, 7/28/08, Serge Issakov <serge at issakov.org>* wrote:
>
> ...  For example. to someone who accepts the premise that re-engineering
> intersections with bike boxes makes them safe (#2), the logical implication
> is that intersections (the vast, vast majority - virtually all in every
> other city in America) that are not so re-engineered remain unsafe for
> bicyclists. ...
>
>


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