My disdain for mopeds lies in the fact that they emit the same amount of pollutants as 50-100 automobiles. It's not what I want to breathe as I'm pedaling to work, shop or play.
-----Original Message----- From: Bob Paolino [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2003 12:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Bikies] RE: scooters in the bike racks > > While this statute truly sucks, note that it does NOT allow mopeds to be > > driven on sidewalks to reach the bike racks. (Another statute [snip] It might be that I just don't encounter them as much as people on campus do, but I'm not quite sure what the big deal is. No, they're not bicycles and for many trips it seems (to us) to be silly that the moped drivers need an engine to get them around on the shorter trips, but they aren't cars either. Many of us may not like these things taking up scarce bike parking, but perhaps the problem isn't so much the mopeds but the inadequate commitment to providing secure bike parking--and that includes even when there are racks that are unsuitable for the purpose. The person who designed and installed those ridiculous things between the Memorial Union parking lot and the entrance should be forced to commute by bike and be forced to park in the stupid things. :-p Eric replied: > Or perhaps many (most? all?) moped operators assume that since it's > legal to park there, it's legal to drive to up to the racks. I'm not > sure the moped driver can be faulted for driving across 4' of sidewalk > to get to a rack where she's legally allowed to park. > > Eric Agreed. Assuming that someone isn't speeding across a vast length of sidewalk terrorising everyone in his/her way, I don't see that it's such a big deal. I could be convinced otherwise with concrete examples of why it's wrong. > > --__--__-- > > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies > > End of Bikies Digest > Now go have a beer, Bob Paolino >From the Department of Military Intelligence and Jumbo Shrimp: Sign seen on a recently poisoned lawn on Johnson: TruGreen/ChemLawn ( ) ASCII ribbon campaign X against HTML e-mail: / \ Friends don't send friends HTML-bloated messages! A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
