[ale] [OT rant] selfishness

[Charles Shapiro]

Also please to note that riding your bicycle on the sidewalk can be
lethally dangerous.  You're often moving at 5-10 times the speed of a
pedestrian, and the drunks turning right into their driveways won't see you
halfway down the block. At that distance you won't have time to react when
they come in front of you.  Notta mention that the sidewalk is designed for
and used by pedestrians ( that's why it's called a sideWALK), and so is
often filled with debris and other obstacles which you have limited room to
negotiate on your bike.

OTOH, I am pretty sure that I should ride my uni on the sidewalk.  It's way
slower and more maneuverable than a bike.

-- CHS


On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com>wrote:

> On 01/11/2013 01:19 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>
>> I have noticed on my jaunts to Boulder that above the Mason-Dixon line,
>> driving changes radically for the better. If I'm approaching someone in the
>> left lane, they pull over to the right. If I use my turn signal to indicate
>> I'm changing lanes, the car I'm about to pull in front of will either make
>> a bit more room for me of flash lights to let me know I'm clear when it's
>> really close. No one guns it to cut me off from changing lanes.
>>
> I grew up in the midwest and at that time I observed the same thing.  The
> reason, I believe, is (or was) that there were laws in place that required
> you to drive on the right unless passing.  They were well enforced.  The UK
> is the same way.
>
> Jim.
>
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