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From: mac@uvacs.UUCP (Alex Colvin)
Newsgroups: net.bicycle,net.politics
Subject: Re: Fear and Loathing on the Bike Path
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Date: Thu, 6-Jun-85 20:38:20 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  6 20:38:20 1985
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Regardless of my opinion of Sanjay's opinions, he has well expressed a popular
attitude.  However, I won't add to the numerous counterflames.  Surely no one is
pursuaded of anything by USENET news!

I will point out that bicycles aren't the only sufferers.  I understand that
motorcyclists also contend with incompetent and hostile drivers.  As a frequent
roadside pedestrian I've been the target of bottles, cans, spit, and verbal
abuse.  Something about being in all that armor makes one despise the weak.

As to bike paths, I recall a posting by the late but great Joe Bike on their
drawbacks.  Pedestrians, equestrians, trash, joggers, the need for street
crossings, and indifferent upkeep among them.

As to history -- PAVED roads were originally for the benifit of bicyclists.
Roads were originally for pedestrians.  Both are now disposessed.

I myself have negative reactions when I see bicyclists (without helmets)
blithely going the wrong way down one-way streets, riding on the left facing
traffic (and colliding with me, who am riding on the right), running over
pedestrians in crosswalks as they try to beat a red light, etc.  Someone last
year posted an article by Colman McCarthy of the Post, decrying the behavior of
his fellow bicyclists.

						mac the naif