This week’s feature is on bicycles — bicycles! — and how if Cleveland’s such a bike-friendly city, why many bike-friendly plans are stuck in granny gear.
This week’s podcast dovetails on the topic. Host Craig Lyndall talked to Bike Cleveland director Andy VanSickle about bike lanes, Complete and Green Streets laws, and more.
Do take a listen, preferably while on two wheels.
This article appears in Aug 28 – Sep 3, 2013.
Cleveland is NOT bike friendly, this coming from someone that bikes 100 miles a week….
I’m all for making Cleveland more bike friendly, anything that keeps bikes out of traffic where they can get hurt is fine by me. Just a reminder, though, that being on a bike does not exempt you from things like red lights and stop signs.
Before you droll over Sf as biker city (I spent 11yrs there), do you REALLY want renegade 2-wheeled torpedoes injuring and killing (that’s right) innocent pedestrians because they’re traffic but don’t have to obey laws cause they’re “special/holierthanthou”; in 2012 bikers injured 29 people, killing 2, and got away with it, just paying restitution of $15000 in one case, that’s not counting property damage. And since they don’tcarry insurance–unlike car drivers– you’ll out of luck if you get hit. and blocking traffic–which by the way includes eco-saving buses–making tired taxpayers late, just to ask for special privileges (don’t pay for road upkeep, no license fees, et al), does not endear me to your cause.
billbg–for someone who allegedly has high IQ (proof?), you have shown no intellectual depth to challenge letter riders with logic or facts, just ad hominem attacks (if you’ve read anything besides the biker Little Red Book [mao reference here] that’s called informal fallacy. Don’t you have anything better to offer than insults? Notice you have not addressed the dangers of bike riders in SF, which you want Cleveland to emulate (sorry to use big words here :-}).