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I have written on this list that vehicular cycling was the norm in
Britain; I deliberately used the past tense, because I have observed that
the same anti-motoring bikeway rot had set in. After all, Andy Clarke,
America's leading anti-motoring bikeway advocate, now the executive
director of LAB, started his career with British Friends of the Earth (or
some such organization), and I have had discussions, both email and in
person, with leaders of that organization. The article in The Scotsman
reflects the ambiguity that has developed. Note that the author
explicitly says that cyclists must use the roadway, with the implication,
which he felt not need to explicate, that the cyclist will be obeying the
rules of the road for drivers of vehicles, but he also wishes for bike
lanes on all roadways, without, apparently, understanding that bike lanes
practically require deviating from those rules. <br><br>
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At 06:22 PM 1/10/2007, Jim Baross wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Remember our discussions about
non-law abiding bicyclists - scofflaws some call 'em?<br><br>
<font size=5>It's time to put brakes on antisocial cyclists<br><br>
</font>Here's a timely article and interesting point of view from a
bicyclist advocate in England. For instance - <br>
"Occasionally cyclists are so stupid and selfish it makes you wonder
if the wind has somehow whistled through their ears too quickly and
sucked their brains out. Cycling without lights at night is not some
environmentally courageous way of showing how you and the owls are as
one; it's a way of being on a bicycle that says: "I don't care about
anyone else other than myself. If some elderly person or small child
crossing the road can't see me - hard cheese on them. I am on a bicycle
and don't care." <br><br>
For the part of the world where this writer lives, pavement = sidewalk.
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<a href="http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=43862007" eudora="autourl">
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=43862007</a> <br>
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