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From: ron@brl-vgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
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Subject: Re: Rank-ordering nuisances
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Date: Fri, 11-May-84 11:41:32 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 11 11:41:32 1984
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In defense of bikepaths.

The Maryland Department of Transportation actually did one correcly!
They built a demostration (i.e. if this one works, more will follow)
path in my home town.  First and formost it is totally separated from
any motorized vehicular traffic.  Most of this was easy for them since
the first mile and a half was an abandoned road that was left after they
built a wider one.   The path is about one car lane wide at the places
where it had to be built from scratch, sometimes wider when they usurped
a piece of older road.  When crossing the busiest street they left the
curbs in (you really need to dismount at this point anyhow), at other
places where it crossed some road a post was installed in the center of
the lane to keep anything larger than a bike from going through.  I used
to get to school via 2 miles of this everyday.  It was a fairly useful
and necessary improvement as it followes two of the busiest highways/roads
thorugh the city.  One of the roads is impossible to bike safely on, although
the other had nice paved shoulders.  The road went from one of the Jr.
high schools through the city park over to the high school, and into the
center area (three shopping centers).

-Ron