That's an interesting idea for bike lanes along railway tracks. I'd feel a lot safer there. Trains don't tend to swerve into you at the last moment. But you would have to put up some kind of barrier between the bikepath and the tracks. There would also be limited connections with roads. Most train lines are gradually expanding so they may be a bit cramped in places, but this could take advantage of the spare land that is often maintained beside tracks.

There are a lot of bike paths around here that follow creeks. These work very well. The land is also flat and tends to have green space along it already. People don't like to build houses on creek flats for some reason.....

ya get the same attitude on a motorbike, but at least you're faster than the cars that are trying to kill ya.

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That's a great idea, expose yourself to attempted murder charges. 

If you hit my car with a hammer I would remind you of some inescapable laws of physics.

freediver wrote on May 15^th, 2008 at 10:07pm:


Did you stop and talk to her FD?  If not you have just assumed it was not her fault.

I was sitting at a traffic light on a 3 lane carriage way the other day and saw this lycra clad fool approach the light look up the adjacent left street to ensure nothing was coming and proceed straight through the traffic light, only to be nearly cleaned up by a motorbike coming from the opposite direction.  

I guarantee you the headline would have read "cyclist killed by unobservant driver" instead of "f&*Kwit with a death wish kills himself and risks the lives of others by flagrantly disregarding road rules"

Personally I don't have an issue with cyclists.  It is legal for them to use the roads, and I have no beef.  Shame it isn't illegal for them not to use common sense in the process.

I have come around a blind bend at the speed limit only to have to slam on the brakes to avoid collecting a gaggle of lycra clad masochists riding 5 abreast and 4 deep on the road; it would have been a nasty crash and the ones that were killed would have pointed the finger squarely at me, when it was in fact the cyclists who were breaking the law.  

This is how to share the road





Nice job on the overtake.

Aussie wrote on Aug 14^th, 2014 at 4:28pm:


Oh well done! The civil engineers in that country sure know what they're doin'. NOT.

Then they end up in jobs downunder.