Comments on: Bicycle Built For Two http://rift.org/1128/2006/03/bicycle-built-for-two/ Adam Preble's Weblog Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:56:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Chris C. http://rift.org/1128/2006/03/bicycle-built-for-two/#comment-1325 Mon, 20 Mar 2006 03:46:22 +0000 http://rift.org/1128/2006/03/bicycle-built-for-two/#comment-1325 <p>I bike to work about once a week. Half of it is via off-road trail (along Freedom Parkway, itself another rare victory over the pave-it-all mentality of this state) but the other half is on street. The key to biking in Atlanta is finding the streets that are bike friendly, which you'd never know about by driving around, and that's the point. In my case, it's Argonne (now "Central Park" -- ha!), 5th Street, and Auburn Avenue. All are wide, sometimes even with designated bike lanes, and have low auto traffic.</p> <p>But having those kinds of resources (bike friiendly trails and streets) are usually the result of years of efforts by do-gooder liberals, in the face of obstructionist and sometimes even illegal tactics by the developer / roadbilder opposition. (Google for "arc 70 percent congestion" to see the latest incarnation of this)</p> <p>I'm just sayin', think about this the next time you're driving in the 'burbs trying to pass some poor dude on a bicycle, or see someone walking along the side of Buford Highway because there's no sidewalk.</p> <p>Waving from intown,</p> <p>Chris</p> I bike to work about once a week. Half of it is via off-road trail (along Freedom Parkway, itself another rare victory over the pave-it-all mentality of this state) but the other half is on street. The key to biking in Atlanta is finding the streets that are bike friendly, which you’d never know about by driving around, and that’s the point. In my case, it’s Argonne (now “Central Park” — ha!), 5th Street, and Auburn Avenue. All are wide, sometimes even with designated bike lanes, and have low auto traffic.

But having those kinds of resources (bike friiendly trails and streets) are usually the result of years of efforts by do-gooder liberals, in the face of obstructionist and sometimes even illegal tactics by the developer / roadbilder opposition. (Google for “arc 70 percent congestion” to see the latest incarnation of this)

I’m just sayin’, think about this the next time you’re driving in the ‘burbs trying to pass some poor dude on a bicycle, or see someone walking along the side of Buford Highway because there’s no sidewalk.

Waving from intown,

Chris

]]> by: Vince http://rift.org/1128/2006/03/bicycle-built-for-two/#comment-1316 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:37:06 +0000 http://rift.org/1128/2006/03/bicycle-built-for-two/#comment-1316 <p>"I imagined I was smiling a bit too much for a 28-year-old on a bicycle..."</p> <p>Nonsense. If you're on a bicycle and not smiling, at any age, you're either too serious or doing something wrong.</p> “I imagined I was smiling a bit too much for a 28-year-old on a bicycle…”

Nonsense. If you’re on a bicycle and not smiling, at any age, you’re either too serious or doing something wrong.

]]> by: Joe http://rift.org/1128/2006/03/bicycle-built-for-two/#comment-1302 Mon, 13 Mar 2006 15:13:25 +0000 http://rift.org/1128/2006/03/bicycle-built-for-two/#comment-1302 <p>Because it's a old railrod bed. Adam you got grease on your hands!!!!!! I don't want to bandstand, but Glenn and I attended a meeting were the beltline was the topis of discussion. It should be a good thing.</p> Because it’s a old railrod bed. Adam you got grease on your hands!!!!!! I don’t want to bandstand, but Glenn and I attended a meeting were the beltline was the topis of discussion. It should be a good thing.

]]> by: Adam http://rift.org/1128/2006/03/bicycle-built-for-two/#comment-1300 Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:41:36 +0000 http://rift.org/1128/2006/03/bicycle-built-for-two/#comment-1300 <p>The unfortunate thing about the PATH Foundation's trail is that, as I understand it, it's mostly just along normal roads. The great thing about the Silver Comet Trail is that, except for occasional road crossings (each of which had stop lights & push-to-cross buttons), you're essentially isolated from road traffic (and noise), on a nature trail.</p> <p><strong>Edit:</strong> I'm wrong about that first part... had I looked at the map and not worked off of assumptions, I would have seen that it is, indeed, a similar sort of trail. Thanks for the pointer, Mike. We'll have to check it out.</p> The unfortunate thing about the PATH Foundation’s trail is that, as I understand it, it’s mostly just along normal roads. The great thing about the Silver Comet Trail is that, except for occasional road crossings (each of which had stop lights & push-to-cross buttons), you’re essentially isolated from road traffic (and noise), on a nature trail.

Edit: I’m wrong about that first part… had I looked at the map and not worked off of assumptions, I would have seen that it is, indeed, a similar sort of trail. Thanks for the pointer, Mike. We’ll have to check it out.

]]> by: Mike N. http://rift.org/1128/2006/03/bicycle-built-for-two/#comment-1297 Mon, 13 Mar 2006 04:25:53 +0000 http://rift.org/1128/2006/03/bicycle-built-for-two/#comment-1297 <p>This trail system starts in Stone Mountain Park and heads towards Georgia Tech. http://www.pathfoundation.org/trails/atldek.cfm</p> This trail system starts in Stone Mountain Park and heads towards Georgia Tech. http://www.pathfoundation.org/trails/atldek.cfm

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