I agree that State Street could, and perhaps should, be left out of future routes.
If it is not, some effort ought to be taken to encourage participants to stay on the side of the street dictated by their direction of travel. I did not participate in this weekend's ride and was unable to use State Street to head towards the Capitol due to the entire width of the street being taken up by RtD'ers. Under the circumstances, ringing my bell was interpreted differently than I had intended. I was not the only non-participating cyclist having this problem. I also agree that more could be done to accommodate residents and business along the route(s). Many non-cyclists I know, as well as some cyclists, don't really see the need for an event such as RtD, particularly given the prevalence of bike paths and lanes, many of which service the same areas in and around the RtD route. Reducing the inconvenience such an event poses to non-particpants could go a long way. -Martin On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 1:26 PM, STRAWSER, Charles <[email protected]>wrote: > Jay wrote: "I don't see the need for Ride the Drive to go down State St." > > Amen. > I think one RtD event downtown and one in another neighborhood every year > is > a great idea. And since most folks conception of "downtown" (and the > current > RtD route) encompasses much more than one neighborhood, why not have the > one > annual downtown event rotate routes as well? > > Why not rotate a route the current route with others that use, e.g. South > Park St, or the Gorham and Johnson couplet (with activities in James > Madison > Park), or University Ave adjacent to Campus (yes, all of these suggestions > involve very complicated logistics, but so does using John Nolen and East > Wash, as we have seen). > > And when the time comes to rotate back to John Nolen/East Wash, leave State > St out of it. > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.danenet.org/listinfo.cgi/bikies-danenet.org >
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