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Old March 28th 18, 07:51 PM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Frank Krygowski[_4_]
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Default Just go "between"

In the science fiction/fantasy novels about the Dragonriders of Pern by
Anne McCaffrey, dragons were able to essentially teleport. They could
disappear from one spot and instantaneously reappear in another,
carrying along the people riding them. McCaffrey's characters referred
to this as "going between."

I guess "going between" is a skill we cyclists are expected to learn?
This article
https://patch.com/new-york/east-vill...-hurleys-death

complains about the "mixing zones" where cyclists on a roadside bike
lane or path have to deal with (gasp!) cars and trucks that need to make
turns. Those vehicles actually cross the bike lane!

So we need a way for either the bikes or the motor vehicles to suddenly
pop into some other space dimension, avoiding the mixing zone, and pop
back into existence on the other side of the intersection. Sure, it
would be messy if you re-appeared exactly where someone or something
already exists; but once we have basic teleportation figured out, that
conflict should be easy to solve.

More realistically: in Stockholm or Helsinki (I forget which) we rode in
bike facilities that had the solution: Separate traffic light phases for
bikes and motor vehicles. Those Europeans were willing to put up with
the delay in traffic flow caused by individual green lights. But I think
that would be a very tough sell in America.

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