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Jim Smith > wrote: (Matthew Russotto) writes: > >> In article >, >> Roy Owen > wrote: >>>Scott en Aztlán wrote: >>>> >>>> OTOH, if every pedestrian to whom he failed to yield were to respond >>>> by calling him a ****head, he'd quickly change his bad behavior. >>>> >>>Or maybe he'd just start packing a 9mm and blow people away. >> >> In which case he'd end up dead or in jail in short order, also solving >> the problem. > >Lets review. Our problem is a rude bicyclist. You are tacitly >endorsing a course of action which "solves the problem" by leaving one >person dead and another either dead or in jail. No. I'm endorsing a course of action that, _if escalated by the bicyclist_ will leave one person dead and another either dead or in jail. The only alternative being a course of action which will not solve the problem at all -- that course of action being to simply silently allow the rudeness to stand. -- There's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can result in a fully-depreciated one. |
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> wrote: > >And it's not just that more hours are spent in cars. On a per-hour >basis, riding in a car and riding a bike are about equal in fatal head >injury risk. When we want to get from point A to point B, we measure on a per-mile basis, not per hour. >Incidentally, walking near traffic is even worse - mostly >because of road zombies mowing people down in crosswalks. Mostly because of drunk pedestrians wandering in the middle of unlit streets. -- There's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can result in a fully-depreciated one. |
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"Claire Petersky" > wrote in
: > This is also the case in the Seattle area. For example, > Bothell/Lake City Way has a transit lane to facilitate the ease of > travel for the buses. If the issue was only keeping auto traffic > moving, they'd only need cut-outs for the bus to pull into at each > stop. > Actually in Vancouver streets they are inatallling sidewalk bulges so buses don't have to pull in (across the parking lane) to pick people up. This of course delays the cars behind (and speeds up the bus) but the planners say tough, take a bus. Love it. |
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In article >,
Mike Latondresse > wrote: > >Actually in Vancouver streets they are inatallling sidewalk bulges so >buses don't have to pull in (across the parking lane) to pick people >up. This of course delays the cars behind (and speeds up the bus) but >the planners say tough, take a bus. Love it. Not even the planners think they can figure out how to make taking a bus pleasant enough to be an option most people will voluntarily take over driving a car. So instead they try to figure out way to make driving a car even more unpleasant. But the gap is too wide to be bridged that way too. -- There's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can result in a fully-depreciated one. |
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In article >, Matthew Russotto wrote:
> In article .com>, > > wrote: >> >>And it's not just that more hours are spent in cars. On a per-hour >>basis, riding in a car and riding a bike are about equal in fatal head >>injury risk. > > When we want to get from point A to point B, we measure on a per-mile > basis, not per hour. Maybe out in rural areas per mile is valuable way to determine A-to-B travel. I'm used to travel being described in a minutes basis. Thusly if I am making a decision to drive to work or ride to work, my consideration is the number of minutes. Biking is usually equal in the morning and faster in the afternoon. |
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