johndoug
06-07-03, 11:05 AM
Link (http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforksherald/news/local/6034482.htm)
Advocacy & Safety - News story: Cars and trucks use bike paths for their own use.
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Ba-Dg-Er
06-07-03, 11:33 AM
"He rodes his bike Friday down a muddy bike path near the Red Lake River Dam in East Grand Forks."
Way to achieve!
Way to achieve!
jatkins679
06-07-03, 11:34 AM
The local officials aren't having a 'hard time' keeping vehicles off those trails if they are letting overgrowth obscure the bike path signs. The writer is confusing it with laziness and/or indifference.
ngateguy
06-07-03, 12:59 PM
Umm they know they aren't suppose to be on it they are just to lazy to walk to there fishing hole. I see cars use the Burke Giillam trail in front of my work use it to short cut to parking or to the next street they always say they didn't know even though it has while lines and figures of bikes skaters and walkers all over it. The police will even see it when they are patroling the parking lot for the park they just chose to ignore it.
John E
06-07-03, 02:32 PM
It sounds like a good revenue opportunity for law enforcement.
As the Rainman can attest, we have a very dangerous situation in San Diego, where southbound Gilman Drive crosses a freeway onramp just before it leads into the Rose Canyon bikeway trailhead. Thanks to a vociferous outcry from the cycling community, CalTrans eliminated one of two free right turn lanes, making the situation considerably safer, except when a motorist decides to turn right, across the primary bicycling trajectory, from one of the through-only lanes. Periodic sweeps by SDPD simultaneously benefit cycling safety, the city's coffers, and local traffic schools.
As the Rainman can attest, we have a very dangerous situation in San Diego, where southbound Gilman Drive crosses a freeway onramp just before it leads into the Rose Canyon bikeway trailhead. Thanks to a vociferous outcry from the cycling community, CalTrans eliminated one of two free right turn lanes, making the situation considerably safer, except when a motorist decides to turn right, across the primary bicycling trajectory, from one of the through-only lanes. Periodic sweeps by SDPD simultaneously benefit cycling safety, the city's coffers, and local traffic schools.
Guest
06-07-03, 10:03 PM
The Streets and Sanitation folks often ride on the bike path to get from point A to point B. Sure, they are usually going to work on a section of the bike path, or some part of the land by the bike path, but what gets me is that they'll ride on the bike path for miles, when they can just get on Lake Shore Drive and ride the drive until they get to the exit closest to the part of the bike path and then ride a lesser portion of the bike path. I know they are just too lazy to ride in the traffic, because that time of the morning, traffic is heavy, and they just can't be bothered.
Numbskulls... :rolleyes:
Numbskulls... :rolleyes:
Chris L
06-09-03, 01:51 AM
Sounds moderately familiar (http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?threadid=11850&highlight=bikepaths).
Yet another reason to despise bikepaths. Sure, cars use the road too, but at least there's a bit more space there.
Yet another reason to despise bikepaths. Sure, cars use the road too, but at least there's a bit more space there.