[ale] [OT rant] selfishness

[gcs8]

I am lucky, I live ~1/5 of a mile from work, not bad for alpharetta.


On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Charles Shapiro
<hooterpincher at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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