Re: cycle-paths, safe or not

Hi Joe

To be honest, it is with a great deal of my own self interest pushing  
cyclist rights that has had me continuing the effort.

The Stokettes, with the teen years upon them and the problems of  
autism, they just don't want to ride anymore.

Gracie needs constant supervision and only does 3 hours of school a  
day. She will never graduate from school. Otherwise she is with me  
except during visitation with her mother. . When she hits 18 we will  
file for disability.

When it starts to get warm again I will see about getting them back  
on the big green triplet.

Life goes on.

David

On Feb 11, 2011, at 11:52 AM, Joe DeLory wrote:

> 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"  
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> To: "Joe DeLory" <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 9:18 AM
> Subject: Re: cycle-paths, safe or not
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>
>> 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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