Re: Press Release - Dooring death in Cambridge

[Cyclepete]

In a message dated 7/12/02 6:25:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

I agree very much with Peter Rosenfeld in that we should not encourage this
kind of design. I feel most comfortable on roads like Lombard and Pine (in
center city) where there is no right-hand curbside parking. Isn't this the
way we should go rather than paint dangerous bike lanes?

Unfortunately, I think it would be politically impossibleto remove cirbside parking on a significant number of Philadelphia's streets. Instead, we should be educating cyclists to "take the lane" in this situation. If painted facilities are desired, I would suggest the approach being tried on the west coast - painted icons of a bike about 5 feet from the parked cars ( typically in the right tire position of cars in the right-most lane). That, or even better,  education on the rights of bikes to take the lane when needed for safety would go a very long way to dramatically increase bicycling safety in the city.

-Peter Rosenfeld