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echo: bikenet
to: ROBERT BUMP
from: KEN PECK
date: 1997-02-20 06:24:00
subject: Re: bike lane/car lane

 -=> Quoting Robert Bump to Dennis Farkas <=-
 RB> DENNIS FARKASsing a total ban on
 RB> :cyclists, and with the blessing of not only the Provincial Government
 RB> but of 
 RB> :The council decided arbitrarily to ban cyclists from this secondary
 RB> :highway so as not to pose a hazzard to motorists.
 RB> I love this kind of reasoning.... cyclists are dangerous!
 RB> When was the last time a bicycle smashed into a station wagon and
 RB> killed a family of five?  Me thinks any hazzards are certainly not to
 RB> the motorists, besides maybe scratching their cars when they strike us.
I recall someone mentioning that a bicyclist on a bike trail injured a
pedestrian, so the authorities banned bicycles from the trail.
That solution should be applied to the roads.  If a car injures someone on
the streets, the authorities should ban cars from the street.
Problem solved.
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    =========  (_)/ (_)   Kenneth_Peck@clr.com
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