Actually, you can drop the ‘cycling’ – it’s just a slice of Chattanooga on a sunny day with happy, smiling people (mainly 20 to 35, it looks like.)
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So another city has beaten Vancouver to bike-sharing. Chattanooga! Geez.
And, as the line at the end says: “Put your own spin on it.” How long is it going to take the last critical commentators of urban cycling – particularly sports jocks and business leaders with political aspirations – to drop their sneering and get with the inevitable?
As one said to me the other day, “You know, we’re not opposed to cycle lanes …” Double negatives don’t exactly reek of enthusiasm. Maybe it’s time to be as positive as, say, some towns in Tennessee.
What two abreast on the motorway?? They are allowed to talk and hold hands even while biking? How can this be?
I see that some of them are not wearing a helmet either. I am not paying for their medical if they get into an accident, even if someone runs over them with a car, because they were not wearing a helmet they should have to pay for their medical.
At the same time I believe that people exceeding the speed limit, or talking on a cell phone while driving or doing something else illegal while driving were to get in an accident should have their insurance revoked and should pay their own medical, because they were breaking the law at the time.
Do both statements sound ridiculous? Why have I only seen the first train of though in most stories posted about helmet laws in the comments? Both seem pretty equal to me. Read the comments in any of the recent stories about helmet laws and you see the odd goofball commenting about paying their own medical.
Guess who else? …Charlotte!
…and Boulder, CO, Des Moines, IA, Omaha, NE, Kansas City, KS, Houston, TX, Madison, WI, etc., etc. *Sigh*