05-05-2012, 09:17 PM
My answer to you. I live off California Avenue. This has 215 at one end and I 15 at the other in about 3 mile radius. It "WAS" two lane both direction with sidewalks on both sides from one freeway to the other.
It was decided that they need to make it more bike friendly although they are all ready using the sidewalks, so they cut it down (MAJOR bottle neck) from Redwood road to 5th west to one lane both directions, a center turning lane and LARGE (large enough for two bicyclers to ride side by side) lanes on both sides PLUS parking lanes on both sides. This has turned into a nightmare. They took two lanes away from a growing populated area and gave it to bicycles that do not pay road taxes.
I am not talking little children, seriously...
They close off a whole canyon road..
I never mentioned registering a bike in my original post that got this thread in a tail spin.
I do feel that bikes want the same roads, then pay. Like you mentioned, motorize a pontoon, then register it...ride a bike out on busy roads, use it instead of a car but share the same street , register it.
I do ride, but I do stick to bike trails, and when I ride on public streets I ride up the side next to the sidewalk "out" of the way of traffic. Small neighborhoods are a different story, as you say, Children.
Sorry I hit a sore spot with you.
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It was decided that they need to make it more bike friendly although they are all ready using the sidewalks, so they cut it down (MAJOR bottle neck) from Redwood road to 5th west to one lane both directions, a center turning lane and LARGE (large enough for two bicyclers to ride side by side) lanes on both sides PLUS parking lanes on both sides. This has turned into a nightmare. They took two lanes away from a growing populated area and gave it to bicycles that do not pay road taxes.
I am not talking little children, seriously...
They close off a whole canyon road..
I never mentioned registering a bike in my original post that got this thread in a tail spin.
I do feel that bikes want the same roads, then pay. Like you mentioned, motorize a pontoon, then register it...ride a bike out on busy roads, use it instead of a car but share the same street , register it.
I do ride, but I do stick to bike trails, and when I ride on public streets I ride up the side next to the sidewalk "out" of the way of traffic. Small neighborhoods are a different story, as you say, Children.
Sorry I hit a sore spot with you.
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