By Robert Emslie
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Jeff Glucker
Well, shit, I’ll just take Route 666. That’s a lot of stairs.
All things considered, crossroads can be hard challenges:
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Same could apply for Minnesota.
If you come to a fork in the road, take it!
As succinct an example of proper versus improper lane sharing as I could imagine. Keep an eye on the right mirror.
http://blog.sfgate.com/stew/2015/09/02/video-helmet-cam-shows-motorcycle-slam-into-back-of-truck/
California law does not forbid motorcycles from riding between two lanes of moving traffic, we call it lane sharing or lane splitting. Other than that, how you lane share is left up to your own level of common sense and self preservation. The video in the story, in which no one gets too banged up, pretty clearly demonstrates the spectrum from Squid to ATGATT (wearing All The Gear All The Time)
(There is a bill pending to limit top speed and speed relative to traffic. http://lanesplittingislegal.com/lane-splitting-news/support-ab-51-to-officially-legalize-lane-splitting-in-california )
I’ve honestly never understood the argument pro lane splitting. The whole concept is asking for accidents. It would be easier to have a designated bike lane all the way to the left, sort of the opposite placement of bicycle lanes.
http://www.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/IMG_0199-bike-lane_1.jpg
It’s sort of a culture thing, Californians have been doing it so long the drivers are used to it. I wouldn’t do it in states with shorter riding seasons, or crazier drivers (like where I grew up and learned to ride.)
Safety wise, the next time you see a rear-end collision at a red light, ask yourself, “If the car approaching didn’t see the stopped car and ran right into it, what are the chances they would have seen a motorcycle behind the car they smashed into?” With lane sharing, the motorcycle is between the cars, and doesn’t get squashed by an inattentive driver, so right there you’ve saved hundreds from injury.
On the freeway, they’ve found no significant uptick in accidents as long as the MCs were going less than 15 mph faster than traffic, or less than 50 mph total. They wrote those numbers in to the proposed laws based on research.
Practically, if cars are side-by-side they’re not going to change lanes, you’re in the pocket. The danger zone is when you’re lane sharing and you have an open lane on one side ahead of you and a vehicle in the other that might suddenly switch into the faster lane. Hence the <15mph rule.
We do have some separated bicycle lanes in San Francisco, which is nice because it keeps the goddamned motorcyclists from "lane sharing" by riding in the bike lane. Goddamned motorcyclists.
That sounds very reasonable. Yet what I see is very little space in these pockets. I also very regularly observe swerving drivers, where you’d wonder what they are doing – not good if you’re passing them on a low margin.
You’re probably spot on when it comes to “used to”-factors though. Thinking about how people survive traffic in countries like India and Nigeria, at all, humans adapt and know how to navigate their surroundings.
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I live in Seattle.
Bergen has a district called “Paradis”. Before I bought my ’77 242, I found a neat Amazon at a good price. Then I saw the address “Paradis” and figured it was all a prankster’s ad, too good to be true. Years later, I moved to Bergen – and have regretted a missed opportunity ever since.
here in melbourne we have a suburb called Sunshine, yet they get no greater appreciable supply of said brightness than any nearby locale (they can do a nice line in junkies though….)
Adelaide has both Paradise and Happy Valley, neither of which bear out any relationship to accuracy in advertising as far as i could tell
to get back to Melbourne, we have a suburb called Airport West which is actually south of the main airport