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<body>I think it might be more productive to focus on "best" routes rather than which streets are dangerous and why. The SF Bike coalition, for example, makes a map of bike routes through the city avoiding it's major hills. It would be a great project to do this for Boston, with the goal of avoiding areas of especially high traffic, severely pot-holed roads, etc. <BR>
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Me and the sweetie were talking about this last night - does anyone offer classes or guidelines on how to ride safely in traffic? This might be a great project for MassBike, and I bet there is grant money for it somewhere. A lot of it boils down to "when in doubt - take the lane" but I'm sure there could and would be more to it than that. The sweetie has done a lot less city riding than me so she ends up asking me for survival tips a lot. I bet a lot of people are in a similar situation and a well promoted class would help avoid accidents like this one. <BR>
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<BR>> <BR>> Maybe Massbike could compile a list of known, dangerous streets for<BR>> bicyclist to avoid, or at least be aware of. That would be the best help<BR>> they could give for now. We have a wealth of knowledge here that needs to<BR>> be dispersed before another tragedy occurs. I took Massbike's safe biking<BR>> course but found their insistence that city biking is safe a little<BR>> detached from reality. Bicycle safety is not as simple or easy as<BR>> following a few road rules. Not acknowledging this is very irresponsible.<BR>> We don't need to let another person to find out the hard way which<BR>> streets are unsafe.<BR>> <BR><br /><hr />It’s tax season, make sure to follow these few simple tips <a href='http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Taxes/PreparationTips/PreparationTips.aspx?icid=WLMartagline' target='_new'>Check it out!</a></body>
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