10 Responses to “Cycling Safety Special Edition”
Comments
laura curran
September 6th, 2011
Great to see discussion. How about a bike lane on Goldenrod , and on Marguerite? Could pilot with time specific, such as M-F, 7:30-9 AM & 3-4:30 PM, during the school year, and see how that works. Any of these efforts need to partnered with lane markings indicating bike right of ways, and perhaps showing that these are routes used by kids riding to school, and others making their way through CdM. SBX has parking underground for those looking for a quick spot to park while on the coffee run.
jamies
September 6th, 2011
What planet are you from Frank? Some of your ideas are certainly out of touch with the realities of this world. Where would you like people to park their cars? Good grief. I was riding my bike to Harbor View 45 years ago and it wasn't any different than it is today. Except instead of SUV's we had 20 foot long Cadillacs to watch for. And while I admit I haven't been to Harbor View since I graduated the 6th grade in about 1964 and I don't make a habit of counting kids, I can say that I haven't seen a single kid ride a bicycle up Goldenrod to school in the past 20 years at least. There simply aren't very many kids that age in old CDM. If you look at the demographics my guess is elementary kids are mostly living in Harbor View homes and the hill communities, with maybe a few more down in Shore Cliffs. As for your earlier column that I chose to ignore, it is nice that you wish to limit your world to that reachable on your bike. That is your option of course. But most people don't have the advantages your wealth provides you, and you do not have the right to force people into your confines. Your comment that it is "only" two miles to walk to the movies in Fashion Island is out of touch. Not all of us are physically able to walk 4 miles to see a movie, or take the additional hour and a half needed for the walk. I think it's great if kids and other people want to make such a walk, there are sidewalks the entire way. Go use them and let's stop the extremist activism, it's getting tiresome to refute this all the time.
Marie
September 6th, 2011
It's getting tiresome to put up with your bad attitude all the time. Do you talk to people in person the way you address people here on this site? A suggestion to drive ones car less is merely that - a suggestion - taking into account age, mobility, and time. Maybe start with taking a walk around the neighborhood. Exercise has been known to increase happiness.
Sandra
September 6th, 2011
All the kids I know that bike use the path through Grant Howald Park, so the cars on Goldenrod really aren't an issue. Most of it is parents parking to walk their children who can't ride up alone. Where do you expect them to park when there are only a handful of spaces in the tiny lots and most people are dropping off and going to work or returning from dropping the older kids off at CdM? There is NOOOOO way to get a kid to the other side of town and then another to Harbor View in time unless you drive. Love the sharrows.... this isn't practical.
Dan
September 7th, 2011
One of the greatest benefits of riding my bike on the narrow streets in Corona del Mar is that I never have to pull over and wait for an oncoming vehicle. One of the greatest benefits of riding my bike on the narrow streets in Corona del Mar is that drivers never have to pull over and wait for my oncoming bike. Thanks for sharing our roads.
David Huntsman
September 7th, 2011
On the way to my son's school this morning, there were more landscaping trucks illegally parked in the bike lanes on Newport Coast and San Joaquin Hills Drives then there were bikes parked in the designated area at school.
jamie
September 7th, 2011
Dear Marie, Thank you. I apologize for antagonizing you. Yes I write pretty much as I speak and I try to speak the truth, as I see it anyway. I usually write or say what ever pops into my otherwise empty head at the moment. In this case since Frank had mentioned "Martians," I was just trying to continue his theme. Beating up on him in my rants gives my life purpose, and I'm positive Frank sits down each week and thinks, "Now what can I write to make Jamie flip out and pop a blood vessel." And once more, for the record. I'm not against bicyclists, I'm concerned about their safety and the safety of drivers. I will try to take a drive past Harbor View (in my big monster truck) and check it out. When I was a kid the entire fence along Goldenrod was filled with bikes and bike racks. Just as CDM was filled with kids in those days. Well the kids grew up, the next generation couldn't afford to live here so we have a town of upwardly mobile young condo dwellers, and the families mostly live in the tract communities. Just as an after thought, I wonder how many kids at Harbor View and other local schools are actually coming in from out of the area and don't even live in the district?
Jasper Downs
September 7th, 2011
The first Jamie post is signed "Jamies". Are you kidding me. There's more than one now!?! Why cruel world, why!!!
Bob
September 7th, 2011
Stop it with this cycling agenda nonsense. The town was set up wrong from the beginning. The infrastructure is what it is. It isn't going to change. People drive cars, that's what they do. Oh that's right...it's the people with those gas guzzling SUVs...yeah blame them! Go away.
The One and Only Jamie!
September 8th, 2011
No, Jasper, you can relax. The truth is I am a graduate of Harbor View Elementary and I can't spell my own name. I am the one and only true Jamie.
