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Originally Posted by Taj44
The paths are actually called "multi-modal paths (or trails)" not cart paths. In other words, they are designed for carts, cyclists, walkers, joggers, etc... I am an avid cyclist, and I prefer to ride on the paths because I see too many unsafe driver maneuvers on the roadways. If I'm going to be hit by an errant driver, I'd rather it be with a golf cart than a 2000 pound car, lol! I see lone cyclists on Buena Vista for example,and think they're really taking their life in their hands. With a group, its a different story. I feel safer in a group on the heavily traveled roadways.
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2000 would be a very light car!
and many of the luxury liners on wheels you see in the Sunshine state an be twice that.
Toss in visitors, new-to-roundabout drivers, phones, texting....
We tell ya....smetimes we get no respect..., it's tough out there on that 20 lb. weenie-wheeled bike.
Sadly, there there are many here among us
that are sticklers for biking on roads, some exercising their right/privilege to the road, but where it's safer and just as fast we much prefer TV's MM's.
Out on rural country. we have no trouble p;edaling along the country and state roads, the lanes on 301, and on 466 where there's no parallel MM, though that would be a welcome sight - the 'bike lane' mysteriously ends in mid-block
some of these images could give MC Escher a run for his designwork!
a search for roads and b ridges to nowhere comes up with some interesting motor vehicle blunders too
http://www.google.com/images?client=...w=1479&bih=914
Happy New Year
L and L