Originally Posted by
High Roller
I prefer lower speed limits, shareable roads, more law enforcement, and enhanced cycling competency to over-engineered roadways, and that automatically makes me an autocentric supremacist buffoon?
Bek, you're stereotyping again. I share your goal of increasing bicycle transportation modal share. But my experience convinces me that dumbed-down roadway designs are a poor substitute for lawful and defensive cycling practices as a means to achieve it.
As danarnold suggested above, perhaps your cause would benefit from having a more reasonable and articulate spokesperson.
Actually your preferences are noble goals... and would lead to quite livable cities. However, the motoring masses want speed, speed and more speed, and both the designers of motor vehicles and the designers of new roadways are bending over backwards to accommodate those wishes.
Even John Forester is a member of the faction that believes that a plethora of high speed roads is the ticket to "personal freedom."
Of course the reality of any fairly dense city is a mockery of that "need for speed," but never mind that...
