Originally Posted by genec
I am not going to disagree with you... there is some merit in what you are saying... but bear in mind that some folks never go into the water without life jackets... and that suits them just fine. Some motorists never go on freeways. Some folks will never be comfortable with a command line. Some cyclists ride three wheel bikes (sorry Diane...
) Some folks never go to college. Can't all these folks still be "accomodated?"
Sure, but there are consequences.
The folks in life jackets are free to float around in their pools, but it won't be much fun, and if they ever fall into deep water, they are likely to drown. So we don't discourage folks from learning how to swim.
The motorists who don't go on freeways are probably not going to be able to drive between SF and LA, at least not in a very reasonable amount of time. So we don't discourage driving students from learning how to drive on freeways.
The folks who are uncomfortable with command lines will never write shell scripts. So we don't discourage programmers from learning command lines.
Those who don't go to college will have doors shut. Thus we don't do things to encourage people to not go to college.
And those who seek to think and feel segregated
while cycling in traffic are probably going to have more than their fair share of crashes. And advocates, lawmakers and engineers have no business encouraging or facilitating that, which is what supporting and building bike lanes does.