[*BCM*] Sharing the road vs. taking a lane?

[Tom Revay]

On 5/17/2006 at 3:43 PM turtle wrote:
>No they can't go 60 mph except on
>big hills (Right, Tom?), 

Fastest ever was 53.6 MPH going east on the Andover B-Hill Road north of Grafton Notch, Maine, in 2002, on asphalt that had been laid only that year.  (Before then it was a dirt road.)

And yes -- I took the lane!

>but then they aren't allowed on superhighways. 

Not in New England and most (all?) of the eastern states, but out west cyclists are permitted to ride on some or all freeways, since those roads constitute the only way from one place to another.  Cyclists ought to be allowed to ride on I-93 through Franconia Notch, though, since the previously serviceable US 3 was replaced by a white-knuckling, hair-pin-turning, crazy-ass hilly sidepath that cuts through parking lots wherein signs posted, "Bicyclists Must Walk Bicycles" are posted.

As John Allen says, "A bicycle facility that doesn't permit bicycling is not a bicycle facility."  Duh.

........................Tom