Allan
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Reged: 05/04/04
Posts: 198
Loc: Bds,W I
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Re: Calfee Saves Little Girl: News at 11:00!
12/12/05 02:43 PM (66.205.15.86)
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The situation has gotten out of hand because of quite a few reasons, the main thing among others are cities with not enough designated paths for all those who are using them. Along with this are the way many of these paths are designed, with narrow widths and many blind corners with encroaching limbs and vegetation, this causes persons to not see others coming the other way till the last second regardless of their forward speed.
Excessive speeds by persons dont help either, and the 'bike police' have their hands full during the main paths busy hours.
This year in Calgary Alberta alone there have been numerous crashes involving joggers, rollerbladers and runners,especially those wearing mp3 players, a total receipe for disaster.
Unfortunately the cyclists arent any help either with speeding, and as recently in late summer of 05 a cyclist hit another path user head-on; one of many such occurances that happens during the year related to users of the paths.
This time the accident was deadly and one of the persons involved died.
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Its time to ride.
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