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Bike notes
By adamg on Tue, 05/13/2008 - 10:16pm
Mike Ball is all in favor of bicycling, but says Mayor Menino needs to stop dressing like a grumpy Care Bear:
... That's doubly unfortunate in that he was doing something vaguely athletic and he was quite jolly at the time. ...
Don Martelli writes the photo of the biking mayor reminds him a bit of that infamous video of Mike Dukakis in a tank.
Mike Mennonno, normally an inveterate bike rider, is thinking of taking the T to work:
... Because the problem with encouraging more bicycle commuting before you've got adequate infrastructure in place for it is it may end up having the opposite of the intended effect. Add to that that there are plenty of Massholes among the ranks of cyclists, too, and Bike Week in Boston is a recipe for anarchy. ...
Oh, yeah, Masshole cyclists.
Casey reports on her first bicycle commute:
... When a Prius passed me, I laughed. "You think you're green? Ha!" ...
Adam Pieniazek reports Bike Week news, including:
... Yesterday I was biking through Cambridge and Somerville, via Hampshire and Beacon Street and noticed a new feature on the Beacon Street/Somerville side of the trip. Bike lanes! ...
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Comments
Tom Menino's giant, fleshy
Tom Menino's giant, fleshy Fred Flinstone head makes me cry.
Ugh
So only attractive people can lead? Your statement is everything that is wrong with politics... it makes me weep.
Sidewalk or Sideswipe?
Bicycling without bike lanes is dangerous. You have to decide between sharing a lane with a car who wants to pass you (and I don't blame them) or sharing a sidewalk with grumpy people who shout at you "No bikes on the sidewalk, read the signs!" I for one pick the sidewalk over being side-swiped. Any town or city that can ban biking on the sidewalk without creating proper bike lanes should be ashamed of itself (Cough, Cambridge, Cough).
Bad idea
The legality of biking on the sidewalk is murky, but it's just a bad idea for so many reasons.
That depends
That depends on the road and on the sidewalk. If there's no shoulder and people regularly speed on the road, and the sidewalk is pretty broad, then I'd say use the sidewalk as long as you're not going so fast you'd pose a hazard to pedestrians.
NOTHING WRONG WITH SIDEWALK BIKING WITH CAUTION
If i am biking on a busy street with cars speeding and huge trucks that could take your life away in a millisecond, i RIDE ON THE SIDEWALK and i do it with caution. I use my head and menuvour around pedestrians skillifully but at low speends. I know its against the law but i do it anyway. If the law tells me i have to ride on busy crazy streets and not on the sidewalk out of harms way, i will break it, i will not let the law make me feel i am in danger of my life, rather i will proudly ignor it. Sence i started biking in the city about 3 mos ago, i have had a cop give me one warning. Most of the time they dont seem to inforce it, especially if your noticiby riding with caution. If there no bike lanes/paths, riders should with out a question to ride the sidewalk away from idiot drivers.
I don't care what the mayor wears
Blue nylon is prolly better than spandex, his suit might convince regular people with neck chains that they can bike, and is probably saving us all major bucks on his healthcare by keeping him active!
Mayoral Wear
Yeah, he seems to have decreased his biking. He was looking a bit trimmer in the initial coverage of his morning rides.
I didn't get a chance to buttonhole him to ask if he did rides with constituents (I'm only about three miles away from his house and could do that.) However, he had that too clean bike at City Hall, which is not the one he allegedly rides at home.
I think he should ride regularly to and from work. I can teach him how to claim a lane.
Perhaps we can each help inspire him to keep it going.
Another biking Boston official
Councilor Mike Ross chronicles his biking to work this week.