On Friday 31 March 2006 11:44 am, J. Bruce Fields wrote: I think those are both good points. However, I think most drivers are unconsciously looking for...
Paul, I think you were trying to steer a middle course and I laud you for the instinct. Nonetheless, your response bothered me deeply. ... looking for reasons...
Again and again. news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060403/ap_on_sc/global_warming_7 It would be nice to see something done in my lifetime. Delay after delay "drives" me...
Nualle advocates, in one breath, getting tough about "enforcement of current law" (which is what would happen under my proposed Bicyclists' Rights Triad...
If anyone on this list is an older sibling, you might remember feeling unfairly targeted. You know how it is, the younger sibling starts something: teasing,...
It's happened to me several times that I have had a close call with a car and had made eye contact with the driver. They always say "I didn't see you". And I...
... I don't know where this advice to always make eye contact came from; I think it's clearly wrong. I think most people will interpret eye contact as a...
J. Bruce Fields
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Apr 4, 2006 8:20 pm
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I like this your thing generally but it needs a little polishing. - It should be named something else. What the heck is a triad? The name says nothing about...
Youıre coming from a different place Marcy. I want cars and motorists to disappear. Itıs like if there was an collision between a shark and a human being...
... I find that my eye to their license plate contact is much more effective. Sometimes I mouth the letters. Just tonight I was pushing my 22 month-old home...
Mark
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Apr 4, 2006 9:48 pm
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... I was always taught not to bother, b/c it's your word against theirs. If you go to the cops and give them the number and tell them a car almost ran you...
In answer to Marcy, first of all, as the youngest of 3 brothers I felt unfairly picked on in my childhood ! The post says that "nobody expects someone to slam...
... << The post says that "nobody expects someone to slam on their brakes in the middle of an interstate". True, but cars can go into sudden mechanical...
... Hm. I thought it was designed for ox-carts or something. But I'm no good at history. As it is, though we all have our unique complaints, I think that the...
J. Bruce Fields
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Apr 4, 2006 10:41 pm
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... tough about "enforcement of current law" [snip], but then, in another breath, apparently whines about current law by saying that it should "redress the ...
... a lot of such unfair infringement. <<< ... For example (probably not the best one, but the first that occurred to me), those provisions that the cyclist...
Shoot. Maybe it only really works in Switzerland. ... -- -- ================================================================= -- mark at geekhive dot net --...
Mark
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Apr 5, 2006 6:59 am
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Simon Baddeley <s.j.baddeley@...> wrote: Youıre coming from a different place Marcy. I want cars and motorists to disappear. Itıs like if there was...
I disagree that the 'transport network' is designed for motorists. Bristol is a network of footpaths (as are most UK cities and towns) as well as roads. the...
...and Iım a driver too (sorry if I disappoint). Iım no purist on this issue. Most of the time I swim and sail (walk and cycle) but every now and again I...
I'm not saying that our towns are designed for cars, rather that the rules are designed for cars. This is because the first call on traffic planners is to ...
... There is a way: the Detroit Windsor Truck Ferry http://www.truckferry.com/ See http://homepage.mac.com/bcahalan/iblog/C1669931764/E1965482519/index.html ...
Rob Duncan
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Apr 5, 2006 2:53 pm
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Do the buses between Windsor and Detroit take bikes ? I looked through the relevant website http://www.citywindsor.ca/000599.asp without finding a definitive...
http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzhybr044689158apr04,0,6704087.story A study says high-mileage cars are not as environmentally friendly as you might think ...
... Yeah, I don't know. I wish they'd just let bikes go through the same bridge and tunnel as everyone else, though....
J. Bruce Fields
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Apr 5, 2006 5:36 pm
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... http://homepage.mac.com/bcahalan/iblog/C1669931764/E1965482519/index.h tml ... TF: Your story makes it sound like you groveled to get let on, and that you...
In answer to Tom Frost, I don't think that the story in question was "yours", i.e. Rob Duncan's; the website address looks like it was written by someone ...
... TF: Not three sections. Three standable-alone documents. The Bicyclist's Bill of Rights and Duties - or that's what I'm currently calling the principle set...
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