Originally Posted by
CommuteCommando
Cage, aka "shiny metal box" is a car.
Nice
Originally Posted by
CommuteCommando
MUP is Multi-use path. These are what we used to call bike paths (and I wish still did). The ones I take are not too bad as far as being overpopulated with dog walkers, strollers and roller bladers. Joggers are usually ok, except for one section where a local high school track team thinks they are entitled to the entire path.
These things can be both a curse and a blessing, huh? "If you build it, they will come". Sometimes it's almost better not to make it so friendly and accessible; limits use to primarily serious users who observe common courtesies.
Along a similar vein, I love to snowshoe, but the trails on the local mountains here in Vancouver are crazy over-crowded on nice days and early evenings. If there are others on the trail and I need a headlight, I use my red lamp as it doesn't kill others' night vision. Drives me crazy when people shine their multi-hundred lumen headlamps in my face as they pass, rendering me unable to detect subtle contours and such for a while unless I, too, turn on my high-beam. For that reason, I tend to not hit the trails until late at night when there's nobody else there... or if I go on the weekend, I go back-country where there aren't discourteous weekend warriors.