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Old 01-14-14, 07:05 PM
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Originally Posted by njkayaker
They aren''t "isolated".
Take away the low speed surface streets (that cyclists can use) and can you even connect to a freeway? Does that freeway go somewhere? That is isolation my friend. Freeways need low speed surface streets to make a freeway effective... otherwise said freeway is like that park bike path out in the middle of nowhere.

Now look at it from a cyclists perspective... a cyclist can go anywhere low speed streets exist... but to go beyond that, it takes a whole bunch of brave, strong, alpha dog, road sneak. Or as you put it earlier, the low speed streets suffer isolation by "scary" streets. Make connections around the "scary streets" for cyclists, and you have a complete transportation network.
Originally Posted by njkayaker
You are going to wait a very long time for that (to be wide-spread).
True... So why put off defining that need... define it today and determine what has to be done to fix it... it may be a combination of road diets and bike boulevards... to solve the "scary street" situation in some places, and probably adding paths where only freeway-like roads exist today. The one thing we don't need however is paths everywhere. Some areas are already nice grids of low speed streets... and those areas can be easily used by cyclists now... if cyclists from outside those areas could connect to those areas. But as long as we have incomplete transportation networks and "scary streets..." well, we have the picture we have today.
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