Commuting - Car/Truck on Bike Path

I was thinking has anyone ride into any car or trucks on the bike path too? I has a flat bed truck suprize me on the bike path last week, and last winter I was almost plowed off the road by two plows. I can see why the plows where on the path. I don't know how that flat bed was going to get off the path because the way it was going was a small brige.

Thanks,

GEEK

I was thinking has anyone ride into any car or trucks on the bike path too? I has a flat bed truck suprize me on the bike path last week, and last winter I was almost plowed off the road by two plows. I can see why the plows where on the path. I don't know how that flat bed was going to get off the path because the way it was going was a small brige.

Thanks,

GEEK

Bike paths require some amount of maintenance. I am sure that there are access ways for maintenance trucks and other vehicles that may not be readily apparent.

I saw an unmarked cop car hauling ass up the Southwest Bike Trail by Cub Foods the other day. Never seen that before. I was at the store, not on the path, so I didn't get a very good look at what was going on.

I've seen a truck last week, but they were simply removing grafiti in an underpass.

The pickups I see on the canal bike paths I ride vary in courtesy. One guy always pulls over to let bikes by. Others have parked so as to make it near impossible to get by. But I haven't yet been nearly plowed. Yoinks!

yesterday I encountered a police car going down a section of the path which was fenced on both sides. He was going reall slow but still I had to slam on the brakes and unclip, and stand pressed against one of the fences as he inched by. The fences was actually a gaurdrail with a highway on one side, a river on the other side.

no idea what this guy was doing, lights were not flashing, etc. i was pissed and gave him a stare and he looked kind of bummed that he was hogging the road. I doubt he realized how skiiny the path got at certain points.

there's cops on my bike path every now and then. they like to park clean in the middle of it, so you have to swerve out into the grass to avoid hitting them. plus, since the path is at the top of a levy with a busy road at the bottom of one side and the mississippi river on the other side it's especially dangerous. i've been polite about it, but i'm thinking about intentionally taking a fall down the riverside next time i see this guy just to give him a hint. i'm young and invincible, i can handle it.

I've seen most everything on the paths here. Cops, Trucks, tractors, mini-bikes, go carts kids in cars. Worst was last summer when they were doing some construction on the river next to it. There was a big crawler backhoe, he didn't do any damage as he straddled the path but sure blocked it. the did and still do have signs up to warn you of possible construction vehicles.

I was quite surprised a few weeks ago to see a flagman on the bike trail. A nearby construction site was using part of the trail, and I guess they figured they should have someone direct traffic.

ps. Is the non-gender-specific version of flagman flagger? Flaggist?

I saw an unmarked cop car hauling ass up the Southwest Bike Trail by Cub Foods the other day. Never seen that before. I was at the store, not on the path, so I didn't get a very good look at what was going on.


I did the capitol city loop thrice last week and a bunch of those while metal poles lining the path by the ghetto/cub foods area were all bent in half like a car had run into them.

The Burke-Gilman periodically has maintenance trucks on the trail whacking back vegetation or other. They generally stay off to one side to let the masses by.

Oddly there was a guy driving on the B-G last week down by Gasworks. Luckily he was going real slow as he realized he took a wrong turn. He's lucky no one plowed into him, it was about the last thing I was expecting to see there.

I had a cop stop in the middle of a path 10 ft passed a RR crossing with both doors open wide so I had to go through the gravel, big gravel. They stopped kids on those stupid micro motocycles. Not sure who was causing the bigger problem though.

Occasionally vehicles will use multi-use paths as frontage roads in our town. My heart warms when I see them ticketed for it. This doesn't happen nearly as often as the violations. It really isn't a huge problem though. Our city maintenance folks are fabulously courteous here.

I've seen a truck last week, but they were simply removing grafiti in an underpass.

LOL I was going to ask you if you rode on the same path as me, but we're pretty distant from eachother... SO yeah. Same scenario happened on the bike path I frequent. For about a week, I'd run into these kids hangin' out in the underpass playing hackey sack on my way home, which was really dangerous 'cause you can't get a view of what's there until you make a turn (I'm crappy with angles, so I'll say a 2:30 turn), and you have about 20 feet to react to anything that could be in that area.

About 2 weeks later, a bunch of really juvenille grafitti shows up (coupled with a large swastika and "SMOKE WEED" in all caps (seriously)). The kids stopped hanging out there. The grafitti was removed about 2 weeks later, which was probably about 2 weeks ago.

Okay, I'll go back to my corner now...

ps. Is the non-gender-specific version of flagman flagger? Flaggist?

"Flagger," says the guy whose wife was one for a summer.

Don't even ask me about vehicles on the MUP. Cops, maintenance crews, jail work crews, grounds keepers. You bet. The official response when petitioned to end this was that the linear park and attendant paths was actually an accessway for the particular park agency responsible for maintaining it (there's an interesting tautology: this park exists for the express purpose of providing access to maintain it) and MBTA, Amtrak, and CSX crews.

Between those jokers, all the peds and meandering traffic, and the horrible sight lines at unprotected intersections AI take the streets most days.

Fishermen constantly cut off the poles that block them from driving on the Pearl Harbor Bike Path. Seems it is too difficult to walk 200 yards to go fishing.

I did the capitol city loop thrice last week and a bunch of those while metal poles lining the path by the ghetto/cub foods area were all bent in half like a car had run into them.

Hm. If someone is driving down there, hopefully they'll get a flat tire from all the broken glass.
:roflmao:

ps. Is the non-gender-specific version of flagman flagger? Flaggist?

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