From: Mike on
Bicyclists should be taxed like car owners to help pay for the addition of
a bike lane alone the highways if that is what they want. ;(


"His Highness the TibetanMonkey, Creator of the Movement of Tantra-Hammock"
<comandante.banana(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>A couple of days ago, my good but unintelligent neighbor got mad when
> I told him of my campaign to TAKE THE LANE. No way he should be slowed
> down when he drives from his job in the boondocks. I think he hates me
> now. Probably we would be hated by everyone out there who's been
> programmed to drive, never mind the fact they sit for hours in traffic
> jams. The fact that ONE MORE BIKE MEANS ONE FEWER CAR escapes their
> imagination --if they ever use it. I think they want the cyclists off
> the road and on the sidewalk, where they become a problem for
> pedestrians.
>
> Anyway I want to go into the science behind it and try to prove that
> TAKING THE LANE doesn't slow traffic from the current system in which
> the drivers must move somewhat into the next lane not to hit you. This
> creates, first of all, a "no man's land" area and a cascading effect
> in which he's watching both the cars and the cyclist, where the
> cyclist is at risk, and the next car may not even be aware of the
> presence of the bike. If the car must exit your lane, however, he
> passes in a smooth way --ONLY BEING CONCERNED ABOUT TRAFFIC-- and
> leaving the cyclist unaffected and safe.
>
> I understand that asking for mercy and SPACE for those at the bottom
> of the food chain --for both cyclists and pedestrians-- is highly
> altruistic... but such are the demands of civilization.
>
>
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> "WE NEED SPACE TO LIVE, YOU KNOW"
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uQ9ybSgnTg