Comments on: Handling the Harassers

By: Bond, James

Bond, James — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:33:04 +0000

http://blogs.westword.com/latestword/2009/06/kenny_bes_guide_to_summers_ter_1.php

seems to be pretty anti bicyclist

By: Andy Cline

Andy Cline — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:27:20 +0000

Brad… Will also be discussed Wednesday at our advocacy committee meeting. I have heard from the city that they are working on it.

By: brad

brad — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 23:37:58 +0000

continuing the off-topicness:

I found out that the issue of no current bike racks on the Square will be brought up at next week’s CID meeting. So that’s a good sign! I heard that there will be 4 new ones installed, I just don’t know when.

By: Andy Cline

Andy Cline — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:26:45 +0000

Nancy… Oh, yuck. I hate those kinds of lanes. I stay out of any bicycle lane that isn’t appropriate, i.e. puts a bicyclist in a dangerous position or is simply unnecessary. And, yes, I get honked at. We have a notorious stretch of lane on Boonville in downtown Springfield that goes right by parked cars. I ride it in road where I belong. Drivers honk. So be it.

By: Nancy

Nancy — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:40:01 +0000

Andy–I live in Bethesda, MD, a suburb of Washington, DC. I can’t say there’s a particular neighborhood where I have been harassed more than elsewhere, but there is a particular road that is worse than others because there is a substandard, contraflow mulit-user path alongside it. Much of this “path” is just the shoulder of the road with a BIKE PATH label on it. It makes some drivers insanely angry when cyclists ride on the road instead of using the suicide path. Even so, this road [MacArthur Blvd] is very popular with cyclists for commuting and pleasure rides.

Keri–yes, it’s funny how most of the harassers aren’t even being impeded by me–they’re often going the other direction! Anyway, when people honk at me I think, “Well, at least they SEE me.”