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Originally Posted by Davonu
What a bunch of hooey!
With some very basic precautions, you are very safe riding a bike on the MMPs. Much more so imo than on a roadway with 40mph (or more) autos passing you constantly.
I’ve been enjoying riding the MMPs for almost 10 years.
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Obviously, the OP had a different experience and that is why this thread exists.
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Originally Posted by Oldragbagger
My husband and I cycle the multi modal paths daily and occasionally it happens that a golf cart will pull out to pass us in a blind curve. We certainly understand your desire to pass us. Who wants to be stuck behind a bicycle going 13 mph, right? But every time it happens I get knots in my stomach knowing that if that cart encounters traffic coming his way as they round that curve they are going to have to quickly pull back into their own lane, which means right into us. We always ride single file and as close to the right as possible but it still might not allow enough room for us and the cart in the same lane especially if the cart driver is over reacting due to being startled by the oncoming traffic. Sure enough that very thing happened to my husband a couple of days ago. He had to slam on his brakes hard enough to almost topple him over. Fortunately he narrowly missed getting hit by the golf cart.
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