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From: Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Some bicycle paths...
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 10:41:37 -0400
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On 7/24/2024 8:10 AM, John B. wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 06:12:12 -0400, Catrike Ryder
> <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 24 Jul 2024 10:33:27 +0200, Rolf Mantel
>> <news@hartig-mantel.de> wrote:
>>
>>> Am 23.07.2024 um 17:14 schrieb Catrike Ryder:
>>>> On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 16:58:12 +0200, Wolfgang Strobl
>>>> <news5@mystrobl.de> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> https://www.google.de/maps/@50.735366,7.1052758,3a,75y,345.37h,78.58t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1stSQFnCmubeCCT3NcbxPfwA!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DtSQFnCmubeCCT3NcbxPfwA%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D345.3653731279749%26pitch%3D11.420637510237043%26thumbfov%3
>>>>> D90!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205410&entry=ttu>
>>>>
>>>> I see a sign that suggets that bicyclists can ride there. I don't see
>>>> anything that says you can't ride on the traffic lanes.
>>>
>>> The meaning of the round blue sign with a bicycle is "bicycles must ride
>>> here and nowhere else".
>>>
>>> In France, by now they have two different signs:
>>> Square blue sign with white bicycle: Bicycles can ride here.
>>> Round blue sign with white bicycle: Bicycles *must* ride here.
>>>
>>> (I think at most 5% of the bike lanes in France now have the square sign).
>>>
>>> Rolf
>>
>> Thanks for the clarification.
>>
>> For the record, I oppose any laws that prohibits bicycles from riding
>> on streets and roads other than limited access highways.
> 
> But doesn't the building of bike paths imply that riding on the
> highway is dangerious? And if riding on the road is dangerious
> shouldn't it be banned?
> 
> After all, Frankie posted a chart showing numbers killed by various
> weapons mass shootings and after separating the numbers into those
> known to be killed only by  "Semi-Automatic Rifle"  were some 118,
> while those killed on bicycles in 2022 amounted 1084.
> 
> As  Frankie feels that killing some 118 with a semi-auto rifle is
> reason to ban the weapons then certainly killing 8 times that number
> with bicycles must be reason to ban there use on highways,

Bicycles and bicycle lanes weren't designed to kill people, you idiot.

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