[SDCBC] Joggers in the Bike Lane - WTF

[John Eldon]

I get as frustrated by groups of walkers or joggers hogging the bike lane as much as the rest of you, but mandatory sidepath laws for pedestrians are irrelevant to this particular case. Had Ms. Soto been cycling instead of jogging, the consequences would probably not have changed much, if at all. The motorist was grossly negligent and caused an easily preventable death.

By the way, I do understand the appeal of jogging in the bike lane instead of on the sidewalk -- macadam is a slightly more forgiving surface than concrete, and pedestrians have even worse right-hook and other intersection movement conflict problems than cyclists do. When I walk or jog in a bike lane, I cower against the curb or parked cars to give cyclists the right-of-way, just as I defer to pedestrians on those rare occasions I resort to using a short stretch of sidewalk while cycling.

Abulifia <abulifia1 at cox.net> wrote: http://www.ocregister.com/news/bake-parkway-1991108

I'm sorry Ms. Soto was killed, but joggers don't belong in the bike lane. 

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