<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">I do concur with the "complete the streets" concept in one regard: the identification and re-engineering of hazardous intersections and crossings. My first priority would be to spend money to address these broken links in our human-powered transportation systems. I do know of specific people, such as radio commentator Tom Fudge, who have given up cycle commuting expressly because of specific hazardous streets or intersections. If I worked in the SDSU area, as he does, I could understand being discouraged from cycling, at least during peak or, worse, near-peak hours, when traffic is both heavy and fast. Fortunately, I live and work where I can generally select routes which are both efficient and safe; this is not
possible everywhere in the county, such as on southbound Kearny Villa Rd. at 163 or near Fairmount and Montezuma.<br><br>John E.<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: John Forester <forester@johnforester.com><br>To: Gene Carman <gcarman@san.rr.com>; sdcbc@bikesandiego.org<br>Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 7:41:34 AM<br>Subject: Re: [SDCBC] Have you folks seen this report on cycling<br><br><div>Here is the review of the Thunderhead report that I posted on <br>chainguard a few days ago:<br><br><br>The Thunderhead Alliance has just released a study of the amounts of <br>bicycling and walking compared to many other statistics.<br><br>It may be downloaded from: <a target="_blank" href="http://www.thunderheadalliance.org/benchmarking.htm">http://www.thunderheadalliance.org/benchmarking.htm</a><br><br>The paper is based on the following assumption: "Strong
policies to <br>provide provisions for and promote cycling and walking can help <br>transform communities into healthier and more livable places." This <br>is not all, because the scope is widened beyond cycling and walking <br>to include more aspects: "The bicycle and pedestrian advocacy <br>movement and its partners for transit and disabled-rights have <br>adopted the term 'complete streets' because it accurately frames the <br>discussion to show that a street is not complete unless all modes of <br>transport are provided for. A complete street provides safe access <br>for pedestrians, cyclists, children, the elderly, disabled people, <br>transit users, and motorists."<br><a target="_blank" href="http://www.bikesandiego.org/mailman/listinfo/sdcbc"></a></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>