[*BCM*] A unified strategy!

[turtle]

So it sounds like you have two main priorities, car safety and favoring
the "weaker" traveller.  Anything else?  Or are those your big ones?

-Turtle

Boston Critical Mass <list at bostoncriticalmass.org> wrote:
> 
> I would take a triple approach, addressing the needs
> of beginning, intermediate and advanced riders.  
> 
> Examples would be 
> 
> improving off-road paths and crossings (in areas where
> crossings are infrequent) 
> 
> Creating well-designed bike lanes outside of the door
> zone, also designed to induce traffic-calming.
> 
> Educating drivers about bikers right to the road,
> following distance, and other key safety things.
> 
> In my philosophy, the weaker party in conflict is the
> one who needs help, so yes I emphasize disabled
> people, then pedestrians, then bicycles, then cars. 
> Along side of that strategy improving mass transit and
> addressing environmental racism in MBTA planning.  
> 
> That's the brief.  I support livable streets.  
> 
> -Pete
>  
> 
> --- turtle <turtle at zworg.com> wrote:
> 
> > Can you give YOUR priorities, Pete?  I'd like to
> > reserve comment until
> > everyone has shared their own interests.  Only then
> > can we start
> > looking for solutions.  So what're the most
> > important things for you? 
> > Safety?  Convenience?  Accessability?  Equality? 
> > Favoring one mode
> > over others?  Speed?  Others?
> > 
> > -Turtle
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Boston Critical Mass <list at bostoncriticalmass.org>
> > wrote:
> > > 
> > > My turn,  sorry for the double email... just
> > thought I
> > > should add to this part.
> > > 
> > > Some of Turtles priorities from another email with
> > > some criticism, hoepfull constructive. 
> > 
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"One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we
seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal.  We must
pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means." - Martin Luther King Jr.