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From: long@oliveb.UUCP (A Panther Modern)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle,net.politics
Subject: Re: Bicycles, Violence and Hatred
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Date: Sat, 27-Apr-85 14:02:36 EDT
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cramer@kontron.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
| 
| > One woman said that she had
| > children  and  was  against a bicycle route because it would
| > somehow (she didn't  say  how)  endanger  to  her  children.
| 
| The woman isn't *completely* a bozo --- the bike path down Venice Beach
| here in California has had a stack of injuries and few fatalities involving
| overzealous bicyclists running into pedestrians.  It *can* happen.

   With children though, it tends to be a matter of overzealous pedestrians
running into bicyclists.  A few kids at the local elementary school seem to
see no problem with waiting until the last possible moment to dash out in
front of hapless bicyclists.  I've had this happen to me three times in the
space of two years, and I have avoided more incidents by not using that route
very frequently.
						Dave Long
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