[SDCBC] What were they thinking?

[Serge Issakov]

I agree with Mark.  And the relative ease of using motor vehicles is also a
big impediment to cycling,  in addition to the hilly terrain and relatively
long distances most people regularly travel in socal.

This is perhaps made most obvious in relatively flat and dense areas with
parking and traffic congestion issues, like Pacific Beach, where bicycling
seems significantly more popular than in most other SD areas, despite the
streets being no more complete and the traffic behavior not being any more
rational to any significant degree.

Serge



On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:59 PM, mark wolfe <markw at wolfenet.org> wrote:

> I think it's more about the terrain, and distances.  No matter how I
> route it, I've got at least 1 significant climb on my route to work.
> My commute from Santee is 26 miles via 52/Kearney Villa/Black Mountain,
> or 22 miles via 67/Old Poway Road.  I'll probably do this commute 2-3
> times a week now that there's daylight and I found a halfway decent but
> longer route via Black Mountain road.  When I was on active duty and
> commuting to the Navy hospital, it was 20 miles, and people thought I
> was nuts.   With the long distances involved in commuting and being able
> to afford a piece of dirt to live on in Socal, you won't see tons of
> bicycle commuters.  Our society is too spread out for it.
>
> Mark
>
> Jim Baross wrote:
> > I certainly hope that no one rides "silly" out there or anywhere
> > in/with other traffic. For the foreseeable future bicyclists must
> > choose routes carefully to fit our capabilities.  :-(
> >
> > Someday bicycling will truly belong everywhere - complete streets and
> > more rational traffic behavior may come about in our lifetimes.
> >
> > When fewer and fewer of us don't ride everywhere we are presently
> > allowed, there is more support for keeping us off/designing w/o
> > bicyclists/bicycling in mind. How often I've heard, "I never see
> > bicyclists." and "Why encourage bicycling with other traffic with any
> > accommodations for them?" "Only dare-devils ride in traffic."
> >
> > Bicycling on public roads shouldn't be any more hazardous than using
> > a motor vehicle; except for the protection that motor vehicles encase
> > their occupants within and many bicyclists leave parked in their
> garages.
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