How do you like the Mifflin bike boulevard? -- Kathryn Kingsbury Director of Communication, Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin www.bfw.org 608-251-4456
<http://www.bfw.org/> <http://bikefed.blogspot.com/> <http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#%21/bike.fed.wi?ref=ts> <http://twitter.com/search?q=BikeFed> <http://delicious.com/network/BikeFed> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 9:56 AM, David Waugh <[email protected]> wrote: > I live on the Isthmus near Tenney Park and bike to my job at the university > all year long. There are no off road bike paths for me to take. However, I > feel safe on the side roads. When on occasion I find myself on the E. > Johnson bike lane, these occurrences of cars coming too close are quite > regular. On Saturday I was without a car and therefore biked from my home > near Tenney Park to the Villager Mall on South Park for the Mayor's > neighborhood round table. I was able to take an off road bike path almost > the entire way. I had a huge smile on my face the whole way. What a > difference. Thanks Madison for off road bike paths. Because in my opinion, > cars and bikes don't yet play well together and maybe never will. I pose > the challenge to you who think differently, why do we have sidewalks? Do > pedestrians need a space removed from traffic? I position myself as yes > they do, because one unnecessary death by a cell phone induced swerve is too > many. So, thanks to all of you who have work to create these wonderful bike > paths. I wish there were more in my neck of the woods ( I do love the path > along the Yahara River and use that regularly.) > David Waugh > 1213 East Mifflin > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:37:37 -0600 >> From: rick <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Bikies] Brush-by assualts >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed" >> >> Just curious if anyone else had any incidents today. Both me and my >> significant other were purposely passed with much less than 3 feet to spare >> [ aka the brush-by] and then had the offending cars cut into the bike lane >> ahead of us [ I'm sure many of you are familiar with this tactic of >> intimidation ] . That's three incidents in the time span of 1 hour today. >> Hate radio at work? >> >> -r >> -------------- next part -------------- >> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... >> URL: < >> http://lists.danenet.org/private.cgi/bikies-danenet.org/attachments/20101108/ee243ae6/attachment-0001.htm >> > >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org >
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