{"id":116075214,"date":"2008-09-05T11:06:54","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T11:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=116075214"},"modified":"2008-09-05T11:06:54","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T11:06:54","slug":"the-beauty-of-bikes-even-ugly-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=116075214","title":{"rendered":"The Beauty of Bikes — Even Ugly Ones"},"content":{"rendered":"

By John Kelly – Washington Post
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\nNot so good is the news that the intercounty connector might not have a continuous bike path along its 19-mile route in Montgomery County. Bad for the environment, planners say. As opposed to, say, the six-lane highway itself and the thousands of vehicles that will travel on it?
\nLet’s see: There’s too much traffic. There’s too much pollution. There’s too much fat. It seems to me that every new road that’s built around here — and plenty of old ones — should include dedicated bike lanes.
\nOf course, riding a bike in our area can get you killed. Car plus bike often equals disaster. If you’ll excuse an Oxonian memory, I never felt nervous cycling in Oxford, even when I was pedaling on a narrow, rain-slicked road with a double-decker bus looming inches from my right elbow.
\nThe reason I didn’t feel nervous is because I knew the bus driver had been in my shoes before, maybe when he was a kid, maybe on his commute to work that very morning. When you’ve ridden a bike regularly, you look out for bikes.
\nThat’s not the case here. We’ve severed our relationship with these sublime machines. Making it easier to cycle — by building bike lanes and bike paths — will help us reestablish it.
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By John Kelly – Washington Post … Not so good is the news that the intercounty connector might not have a continuous bike path along its 19-mile route in Montgomery County. Bad for the environment, planners say. As opposed to, say, the six-lane highway itself and the thousands of vehicles that will travel on it? … <\/p>\n

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