Originally Posted by
John Forester
The fact that you do not choose to use the term "bikeways", which I use only as prescribed by the engineering standards and the highway laws, is up to you. You say that you advocate only one kind of bikeway, the long-distance path usable at high speeds. That's fine, but that does not allow you to criticize me for criticizing all the other bicycle advocates who advocate bikeways within the engineering and legal meanings.
Your use of the term "bikeways*" is quite disingenuous and on par with the utterance "let them eat cake.**"
*the broad term bikeways applies to anything for cyclists from a mere line on the traveled roadway, to a narrow meandering path, to a well designed class 1 bicycle highway. The true distinctions are quite obvious, and quite different.
**Enfin je me rappelai le pis-aller d’une grande princesse à qui l’on disait que les paysans n’avaient pas de pain, et qui répondit : Qu’ils mangent de la brioche. J’achetai de la brioche.