Originally Posted by
Allister
Calm down, Junior.
Haven't you figured out that different does not necessarily equal inferior? You are the one buying into the 'cyclist inferiority' attitude by perpetuating this argument.
Just because someone likes bike lanes or bike paths, doesn't mean they think they can't also use the road. Or is that too inclusive for your bigoted little mind?
The average one of your bikeway-cycling (_and_ bikeway-designing) buddies _should_ "think that they can't also use the road", because they _can't_! This fact is made abundantly clear by their cluelessness about how to even _cross_ a road when they get to where their beloved bikeway must cross a road. Us Foresterians have _been_ "inclusive" enough to do several percent of our cycling miles on such farce-sillities just to be sociable with your faction, but our patience with which to do so wore thin after a while when we had to, at too high of a percentage of trail/road intersections, waste time dismounting and walking hundreds of feet to avoid having our accident rate go up astronomically due to pea-brained trail/road interface design. If that's not an "inferior" facility/maneuver, then I don't know what you _do_ call inferior!