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jimpaulmitsi OP t1_j9hfmb4 wrote

Reply to comment by SensitiveOrcBrbrn in Constant wrong way biking on Shepard St by jimpaulmitsi

Thanks for the input! What you can’t see on streetview though is that Walker has barely any traffic. Shepard is much busier and people speed given the lack of turns. Pretty dangerous

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SensitiveOrcBrbrn t1_j9hg8o8 wrote

Fair enough about the amount of traffic on each street, but drivers speeding is also a problem that needs to be addressed. And it sounds like those cyclists need to be accommodated, not excluded

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noob_tube03 t1_j9jv0vl wrote

Why? They could just go down Linnaean, or walker. Not every street needs to have parking removed for counter traffic bikers, especially when there are viable alternatives. Hell, Harvard could just add a cutout onto the property for bikes from garden if that's really what the issue is. Why should city tax dollars fix Harvard's student issues?

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SensitiveOrcBrbrn t1_j9mpeg0 wrote

(a) One of my suggestions was to petition "Harvard to add an off street bike path parallel to Shepard St to accommodate those cyclists" which wouldn't require city tax dollars.

(b) To be a little Socratic and re-frame your question back to you, (b.1) why should motor vehicles have so much road space? (b.2) And why should so much of that road space be designated for the storage of privately owned vehicles? I.e., why is parking needed there? Cambridge is a city with transit and all those houses on that street have driveways (aka off-street parking).

(c) Why are my city tax dollars going to subsidize motor vehicle users so they can drive around threatening the lives of pedestrians and cyclists and generally be entitled?

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