Re: cycle-paths, safe or not

I like that attitude, I'm it has taken a lot of hard work and persistence on 
your part and others to get to this point. Keep up your efforts. Most of us 
do not labor on advocacy issues to gain recognition but because it is the 
right thing to do.
BTW haven't seen many recent installments of "tales of the Stokettes" 
lately, I pray that you and they are doing well. I'm sure they are growing 
up.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Whitmon" <[email protected]>
To: "Joe DeLory" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: cycle-paths, safe or not


> The town of West Tisbury here on Martha's Vineyard is possibly the  most 
> progressive town we have here. There is about 6 or 7 miles of  bike paths 
> within the state forest that is in West Tisbury. Their  official stance is 
> that they have a network perfectly fine multi user  facilities called the 
> public road ways.
>
> Now if we could only require that all holders of licenses to drive  motor 
> vehicles be mandated to go through added training to get it  through their 
> collective C.R I. (Cranial Rectal Inversion) brains  that cyclists are 
> road users and have every right to be out there on  the road as we all 
> know we do.
>
> David
>
> On Feb 11, 2011, at 9:35 AM, Joe DeLory wrote:
>
>> While I agree there are many advantages to have ing cycle-paths, it 
>> would be prohibitively expensive and practically impossible to  create a 
>> system of paths that would reach every destination.  Construction of 
>> cycle-paths should be viewed as an adjunct (not a  substitute) to making 
>> the streets safer for ALL users. I also hope  that construction of more 
>> "bike specific" facilities does not lead  to "mandatory side path laws"
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