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Recently I engaged in a conversation over at ne.transport regarding
some inadequate bike lanes in the Newburyport, MA area. Shortly after
posting my reply, I got an email from a Boston area reporter. I don't
want to copy-paste the exact email in the interest of privacy, but the
gist was basically that she read my post and she's "heard other
cyclists complain of useless/dangerous bike lanes". She wanted to
know if there were any others that stand out as particularly
dangerous, stating that it may make a good news story for them if
so.

This seems like a good chance to try to get some public awareness, so
I figured I'd bounce the concept off of some other cyclists before
replying to her.

Link to the thread: http://tinyurl.com/2bw4od

The Globe recently did a very strange story recently about a popular
multi-use path in Eastern Mass, the Minuteman. The headline was about "bike
path rage," though the story only cited one actual "rage" incident that was
two years old. Then lots of quotes about how crowded the path is and how
cyclists and joggers and skaters and eveybody have to get along--not the
same thing, but put in a context that suggested the people quioting were
"responding" to the rage "problem."

The story was the top story of the Sunday paper a few months ago.

I'm not sure what that was about, but I hope this reporter does a better job
on bike lanes, which can kill people if done badly. There are some very bad
ones in Cambridge.