Way too many things to quote and it gets way too difficult to read with
the long string of quoted text, so I'll just add.....
I think throwing wacky technological fixes (dimmer buttons on the
handlebars, etc.) is a bit over the top. We got enough gadgetry to tack
on a sublimely simple machine (I refer to the bicycle) without adding
another device that will take up precious real estate on the handle bars
and eventually break anyway. A good headlight seems pretty effective.
Seems to me that headlamps have served bikers for over a hundred years -
and it was a heckuva lot darker then.
Perhaps the best civic solution for the path is one that, in a small
way, is already in place there. At erratic intervals, there are stiff
plasticky things (36" posts?) with mile markers and a bit of reflective
tape. I think they might be for snow removal. Perhaps the city could add
a few dozen more of these relatively inexpensive and low tech posts with
reflective tape on either side. With even a low beam headlight (I used
to have some really crappy ones) these reflectors just POP... especially
if the headlamp is on blink. In the dark they were very comforting -
knowing where the edge was. I'm not moving too fast when it's that dark.
don't want to miss anything.
Mark
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