Bastille Day on Bike is here but don't know if it'll be televised
TheTibetanMonkey
spirituality.)
Don't know if there's gonna be guillotine. All I know is that 1,000
bikes will be storming the streets, similar to La Bastille. But please
read on...
(I quote)
According to Deco Bikes LLC which signed a contract to run the bicycle
sharing program on Miami Beach this past July,
“Deco Bike, LLC. is a Miami-based joint venture firm that will house
is headquarters in the Wynwood Arts District.The company recently
entered into contract with the City of Miami Beach to provide
residents and visitors an automated, solar-powered public bicycle
rental and sharing system that will operate 24 hours per day
throughout the City. Patrons will be able to check a bike out from any
of 85 station locations and return to a station of their choosing.
With nearly 1,000 bikes in the program, it aims to improve mobility in
the community, improve public health, reduce vehicle emissions and
help to eliminate parking problems and traffic congestion by taking
hundreds of cars off the road. Bikes will be available via monthly
memberships or on an hourly basis. Such programs have experienced
great success in Europe and now are slated to be implemented in a
variety of urban locations in America. The Deco Bike Miami Beach
program will be one of the first and largest city-wide programs in the
country and is expected to launch in the Spring of 2010.”
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So, I’m assuming the streets will be taken by storm with 1,000 bikes
out there. It almost sound like the storming of the Bastille!
I hope we don’t have to see cyclists on the sidewalk anymore.
Liberation time!
link...
http://forums.miamibeach411.com/index.php?/forums/viewthread/6095/P20/
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"Check your Universal Sports channel and look for Bastille Day on
Bike" (this is my own name so look under bike)
TheTibetanMonkey showing-the-path-of-enlightenment-in-the-jungle
rk wrote:
Commandante,
As a bicyclist (and one bitten by a dog while biking on a bike trail)
I empathize with what you’re saying. Bikes need their own trails, and
Miami Beach is well behind other cities in this regard. Bike paths
need continuity, a smooth surface, proper lighting, and separation
from cars, pets and pedestrians. All of these are lacking. I don’t see
any near-term signs of progress either. The city web site promotes the
beachwalk for bicyclists but in my view that is too crowded with
pedetrians and pets (and other hazards) to be really considered
useful.
There is a space problem of course. My suggestion would be add well
marked bike lanes on certain less busy north-south routes, make the
beachwalk more bike friendly by improving the surface, better
lighting, and enforcing leash laws.
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Good, then I propose a Plan B, since Plan A doesn’t work.
Establish the right lane as the bike lane, give it to the cyclists,
and make cars pass on another lane. But it would be like a regular
lane in the abscence of bikes. Fair enough? Everybody happy since no
one would have the lion’s share of the road, but cars keep going.
Plan C is that they don’t give us the lane, and then we have to earn
it…
TheTibetanMonkey
(2) Dogs can bite without barking, or any other warning.
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I often like to compare the dog as a predator that came from wolves to
drivers that act as predator, and all the instincts coincide so much
that we can treat our drivers with Dog’s Whisperer advice.
However there’s an instinct that baffles me and it relates to my last
incident: I go with the pedestrian light and the driver of this truck
waits impatiently and then blasts the horn just as I clear his path!
That’s intimidation, just like the dogs that ambush you and at the
last minute they scare the hell out of you.
Why these two animals share the same instinct and what does it mean?
TheTibetanMonkey
1, 2, 3 and 4th places here.