gds <
[email protected]> wrote:
:> Roger Zoul wrote:
:>>
:>> Do you really expect to drive the number of accidents that happen
:>> to cyclist to zero?
:>
:>
:> I think it is a nice goal. If you don't have aggressive goals you
:> don't accomplish much.
I agree with you here. I just hope there is something that actually can be
done that will have an impact. Honestly, I'm very doubtful, but I won't
stand in the way of someone willing to try, and I'd even pitch in.
:>
:>
:>>
:>> Finally, it seems you are the one doing the attacking by asking me
:>> if I consider a death as insignficant, instead of just dealing with
:>> the fact that only relatively small numbers of cyclist are killed
:>> in Tucson.
:>
:> I don't find the 5 deaths to be relatively small. As I have said in a
:> number of other threads I have lots of recent experience with cyclist
:> being hit by cars. In my club of ~150 cyclists three of the members
:> have been hit by cars within the last 12 mos. They are all
:> experienced cyclists and each was hit by a vehicle veering into them
:> while they
:> rode along in a line of cyclists. In each case they were clearly
:> visible as individuals and even more so due to being in a line of
:> cyclists. So, perhaps I am (overly) sensitive to the issue but in my
:> 50 years of cycling I haven't witnessed that manyserious incidents
:> in so
:> short a period until now.
:>
Well, that explains your concern. It's always more real when it happens
within your own sphere of influence.
:> Why don't
:>> you come ride over here if you don't like those numbers?
:>
:> I'm particularly lucky at this point in my life. I live in Tucson
:> becasue I want to live here. No issues of school, work or family are
:> involved. So, thanks for the offer but I'll stay here. But you are
:> certainly welcome to come out and visit and ride. Many pros do their
:> winter base training here. Tucson is a fantastic place to live and
:> ride. I wouldn't trade it for anywhere. That said I'm still disturbed
:> by what I'm seeing happen vis-a-vis cyclists and motorists.
Sounds nice, really. I'd like to do just that (ride there, that is).