Each shoulder of each road in incorporated Vancouver is equipped with either a bike stripe or, in lieu of that, a sidewalk.
And often times both, particularly on the main collector roads. As to whom would want to actually ride nay, ruin their bike down in the Vancouver bike stripes--in reality, merely the rain gutter, wherein all the sticks, broken glass, discarded beer cans and other detritus get washed after a good rain storm--well, that's open for debate.
(The following is just a rant that I need to get out in the open. You can Control + in your Firefox if you find it is too small to read.)
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People whine in person, in the Columbian and elsewhere about what "a scourge" those of us who ride bikes on the sidewalks are. Okay, ya know what? Either put in some decent bikeways or get over yourselves! Pure and easy!
Just because you all are a bunch of anti-bike people--in all likelihood grotesquely fat alcoholic chain-smoking hicks driving oversized SUV's and living in gas-fired trailer homes in off-shoot little areas of outer Clark County and have likely never even set ass on a bike for one moment in their lives--doesn't mean everybody else is! You piss and moan about our crass behaviour on the roads then you tell us to stay off "your" roads, citing that we supposedly never pay any taxes on the roads and whatnot. Well, there's a high chance you do the same thing in your car as well. Most of us who are old enough do pay the taxes on said roads that you so righteously assert we don't!
To that swaggering old anti-bike bore who wrote an unusually arrogant diatribe in the Columbian yesterday about bike riders who run stop signs and red lights and cause just all manner of emotional stress upon his fragile little psyche: You can't F'in create any argument strong enough to even marginally convince me that there aren't drivers who do those same behaviours you so fluently and intellectually blasted us about, okay?
Jeezus, people! Either get with the fact that people are going to ride bikes freely regardless of what you all dosh out or get over yourselves. Pure and easy.
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