I saw this the other day. Decent article, I thought.
dashap
Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 8:13 pm
professorJoined: 21 Jun 2006Posts: 1566Location: central district
At the end, the anchorwoman says that the city of Seattle is spending $240 million dollars over the next decade to add bike lanes and increase the number of bike commuters. $240 million dollars? Can that be right? That can't just be for bike projects can it? Can it?
TrikerTrev
Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:28 pm
Joined: 23 Oct 2006Posts: 2303Location: FOCO, MOFO!!!
yep, thats what mayor gridlock got from the feds for creating his BMP.
I found action 3.1 comical, as i've not seen done, anywhere, to date (cough, cough, Stone Way, cough).
snyd3282
Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 9:56 pm
could suck the fun out of a blowjobJoined: 23 Jul 2007Posts: 588Location: Ballard / Fremont
Thats why I keep going to these (and posting about) Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board meetings. The SBAB is responsible for oversight of SDOT's implementation of a lot of this work.
TrikerTrev
Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 10:11 pm
Joined: 23 Oct 2006Posts: 2303Location: FOCO, MOFO!!!
this must stop. i've already broken 2 of Jeffs 5 '08 rules.
Alex
Posted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:44 pm
Joined: 18 May 2006Posts: 3128Location: Roosevelt
The video was going okay until it said that bikes need to use bike lanes if they are offered. That isn't true, and I don't use them where they aren't safe (eastlake near furhman as an example).
alex
Remington
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 12:39 pm
Joined: 23 Jan 2006Posts: 457Location: Remington Country
Alex wrote:
The video was going okay until it said that bikes need to use bike lanes if they are offered. That isn't true, and I don't use them where they aren't safe (eastlake near furhman as an example).
A person operating a bicycle upon a roadway may use the shoulder of the roadway or any specially designated bicycle lane if such exists.
TrikerTrev
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:21 pm
Joined: 23 Oct 2006Posts: 2303Location: FOCO, MOFO!!!
snyd3282 wrote:
Thats why I keep going to these (and posting about) Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board meetings. The SBAB is responsible for oversight of SDOT's implementation of a lot of this work.
then can ya tell those asshats to install some FUCKING SIGNS indicating WTF a "sharrow" is.
I see " driver education" is low on their list, so consider it a belated x-mas wish.
snyd3282
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:28 pm
could suck the fun out of a blowjobJoined: 23 Jul 2007Posts: 588Location: Ballard / Fremont
TrikerTrev wrote:
snyd3282 wrote:
Thats why I keep going to these (and posting about) Seattle Bicycle Advisory Board meetings. The SBAB is responsible for oversight of SDOT's implementation of a lot of this work.
then can ya tell those asshats to install some FUCKING SIGNS indicating WTF a "sharrow" is.
I see " driver education" is low on their list, so consider it a belated x-mas wish.
Yeah, it sucks.
I'm trying. Government groups don't work very fast.
For some reason, they seem to think that hanging door flyers on the houses for 4 blocks on either side of the road that gets sharrows is enough education.
The university of North Carolina is doing a study on a couple of the roads (before and after) where SDOT is installing sharrows this year.
If we are lucky, this summer Cascade is going to do a huge education campaign hanging information on every house door in the city, maybe we can get "what is a sharrow" information added in there.
lantius
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:31 pm
1337Joined: 22 Jul 2005Posts: 6705Location: right over
you do realize that sharrows work even though people don't know what they are, right?
that makes them better than other treatments (like bike-in-a-house sharrows) that need explanation.
TrikerTrev
Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:50 pm
Joined: 23 Oct 2006Posts: 2303Location: FOCO, MOFO!!!
i was gonna say something about the need for further driver education...until i realized i dont really give a fuck.
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