Rules, laws, safety , motorists, cyclists and pedestrains

Two good articles by Richard Layman:

Safe bicycling and the right kind of infrastructure

"So this leads into the second problem with the laws being written to treat bicycles as co-equal traffic--the fact is that street infrastructure is optimized for motor vehicles, not bicyclists, and by its very nature, road design focused on motor vehicles tends to fail to provide adequately for bicyclists.

So bicyclists are expected to behave as motor vehicles, when both the laws and the infrastructure privileges motor vehicle traffic at the expense of the bicyclist."
<a href="http://urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com/2010/11/safe-bicycling-and-right-kind-of.html">http://urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com/2010/11/safe-bicycling-and-right-kind-of.html</a>;


Shared use paths (trails) and safety and marketing

&quot;This is something that bugs me to no end about DC's new Metropolitan Branch Trail. No rules are posted,...&quot;
<a href="http://urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com/2010/11/shared-use-paths-trails-and-safety-and.html">http://urbanplacesandspaces.blogspot.com/2010/11/shared-use-paths-trails-and-safety-and.html</a>;