[lace-chat] Pond-ering Traffic Patterns

2008-06-03 Thread Joy Beeson
When I took a bike tour in southern England back in the 1980s, I had a terrible time navigating until I realized that Americans navigate by lines, the English by points. In the US, when you want to locate yourself at a point on the map, you go to an intersection, read the signs, and look for the

Re: [lace-chat] Motorways

2008-06-03 Thread Joy Beeson
On 6/3/08 1:37 PM, Jean Nathan wrote: I hope you didn't blunder on to an M road on a pedal cycle - they're no allowed on motorways. Neither are learner drivers and pedestrians. That was abundantly clear -- that M road was actively hostile to bikes, and, as I said, when I found a chance to get