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On Jul 18, 8:55*pm, "Edward Dolan" wrote:
"ComandanteBanana" wrote in message

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On Jul 18, 6:39 am, Harry Brogan wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:14:25 -0500, "Edward Dolan"
wrote:

"ComandanteBanana" wrote in message
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This is the LONG WAY... The QUICK WAY is to make every bike entitled
to the lane, and the cars better overtake them on the other lane --or
else smile for the cameras.

Bikes and motor vehicles need their own lanes entirely separated from
one
another by physical barriers. Otherwise you are just whistling Dixie!

I can agree with that. *After all, I have NEVER been hit by a car
while actually ON a bike path. *But I have been hit by one while
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Yes, it gotta hurt...

http://snopes.com/photos/accident/bikerace.asp

That picture has been posted several times on these cycling newsgroups and
serves to remind us all of how vulnerable we are on the roads with motor
vehicles. I will no longer ride my bike on high speed highways with no
shoulders. Way too dangerous. I must have a shoulder or else the traffic has
to be nonexistent.

Bike lanes without physical separators are no solution at all. Motorists
will veer into bike lanes without giving it a second thought if it suits
their convenience.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota- Hide quoted text -

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Yeah Big Ed, I'm riding some road now, but mostly we would depend on a
car to take a bike somewhere safe, like most Americans out there.

Hey, by the way, here are some of the worst states (in my opinion) to
ride a bike...

Originally Posted by balindamood
"I have been commuting year round in Anchorage for five years now,
even with our annual 5-months of poor road conditions, and I love it.
It has its problems, but from a bicycle perspective, it beats
everywhere I have lived before (Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia,
Massachusetts, Kansas City, Minnesota, North Dakota, and most
certainly...Texas).

Stay in Miami, or Kentucky, Boise, or wherever if you want. At 650,000
people in the entire state, it is starting to feel a bit crowded
anyway."

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Thank you for not encouraging me to go over...

Anyways it seems the most problematic states are Florida and Alaska,
for different reasons, and then, of course, Texas...

Alaska is the Last Frontier and it got too many gold diggers or oil
diggers whatever.

Florida is the Deep South, and some people are subhuman, specially
broke people and cyclists.

And Texas...

Originally Posted by mlts22
"Ironically, there was a bill that almost got passed in Texas that
would require 3 feet passing distance, six for commercial vehicles
between a cyclist and other traffic, but it was explicitly vetoed.
This is the second time this type of bill hit the floors of Texas's
lawmakers too."

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Well, I think Texas is still considered part of the Wild West.

It'll get to pass though when lawmakers ride bikes too --if ever.