My wife Julie is claiming credit for this idea! She suggested this to me about 4 years ago, and I believe I forwarded it on to the Platinum committee. So of course I strongly support redefining the "design reference cyclist" in a family friendly way.
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 17:09 -0600, Jay Ferm wrote: > Jonathan over at www.bikeportland.com has a very good article about > family biking on bikelanes, bike boulevards and residential streets. > Heres the link: > http://bikeportland.org/2010/03/04/editorial-when-it-comes-to-family-biking-size-matters/#more-30258 > > This gets to a point we discussed on the Platinum Bike Planning > Committee but have yet to realize here in Madison (to my knowledge, > please correct me if I'm mistaken), that it would be helpful to define > a "design reference cyclist" for whom we design infrastructure. > Currently, it would seem that most (maybe all) infrastructure we > design and build in Madison is designed for a confident adult riding > by themselves on a standard bike with no cargo on a clear day. _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org
