---- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > * riding in the 'opposite' direction is a significant factor in bike/car > crashes >
Actually, there is no "opposite direction" on sidewalks. All sidewalks, even the inner sidewalk of the Square on Saturday morning, are two-way pedestrian thoroughfares. "Direction" is a reference to the vehicle traffic lanes that happen to be adjacent to the sidewalk, but it's irrelevant to the traffic on the sidewalk. Of course, a lot of drivers forget this, esp. when they approach a street with one-way vehicular traffic. They forget that FIRST, there's a two-way pedestrian thoroughfare. This is where the crashes come from. But that has nothing (well, it should have nothing) to do with the direction of the vehicle traffic lanes. There is no way to operate a bicycle on a sidewalk in the "opposite" direction to pedestrians, as the letter-writer suggests, as pedestrians go in both directions. --------------- Paul T. O'Leary Chronic Nuisance Madison, WI USA _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
