[SDCBC] A good opinion piece in Voice of San Diego this morning about Per...

[Jim Baross]

There are crosswalks painted far down or up the off ramp... even a 
sign stating "use crosswalk". What a cruel joke that is. I have never 
tried to use the crosswalk because I see that the approaching 
vehicles are traveling too fast to be able to come to a stop, and if 
one did I bet the following ones would crash into the first one... 
maybe that would slow folks down but at too high a cost.

I get through there by timing my merges to the generally platooning 
groups of vehicles... and I merge to a straight through position in 
the lane both to show I'm there, to indicate I plan to go straight 
through, and to provide space to the right of me for the ramp runners 
to make their run.

The curve doesn't help because for a while a bicyclist, especially on 
riding far to the right, is out of view of overtaking motorists.

At 10:44 AM 6/25/2008, JonIsaacs at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 6/25/2008 10:09:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
>execdir at sdcbc.org writes:
>
>>Just in time for the regional bike plan meetings
>>
>>Kathy
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>
>Interesting read, it's been a while since I have been down Pershing, 
>wondering about the Lane Position issues here...  What do you locals think?
>
>Jon

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