[ale] Linux Sys Admin needed

[KingBahamut]

Jim....My k2 Zed 3.0 gets alot of use , and if I could bike to work, I know
id find a way to do it.

But your right, Atlanta is about as utterly unbike friendly as it gets.




On 6/15/06, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> JK wrote:
> >
> > In real bike-friendly cities, cars and cyclists
> > usually don't have to share the same pavement.
> > I bike around El Paso (TX) a lot, which is not
> > particularly bike-friendly, and I try to be polite
> > to motorists, but motorists don't often return
> > the favor. If I take off from a red light as fast
> > as I can, it's still likely to piss off the guy
> > in the Porsche that has to wait for me. It's a
> > basic conflict between huge fast cars and light
> > slow bikes trying to share bandwidth, so to speak.
> >
> > OTOH, I spent two weeks in Portland OR
> > last month visiting a client, and rented a bike in
> > order to avoid turning into a slab of lard.  I
> > also had a really nice rental car, but it turned out
> > that in Portland, bicycling was a *much* better way
> > of getting around the city than driving.  At rush
> > hour, the 4-mile drive from my hotel to the client
> > site took about 40 minutes, including finding parking
> > (which was sometimes impossible); biking took
> > about 20 minutes, because nearly every single major
> > street had a lane reserved for bikes; and parking a
> > bike is never a problem.  Furthermore,
> > motorists in Portland respect the bike lanes. Plus,
> > downtown Portland has bike-friendly and *FREE*
> > mass transit! It was really an excellent experience.
> > Someone moving from Portland to Atlanta (or El Paso)
> > would probably feel like they went 20 years backward
> > in time.
> >
> > I'm not saying that motorists are evil (I am one
> > much of the time); just that making bike commuting
> > practical takes a serious commitment from everyone
> > involved, as well as money. IMO the improvement in
> > quality of life for a city that makes that investment
> > would be worth it, though.
>
> All good points.  Unfortunately Atlanta is no more a bike friendly city
> than it is a mass-transit city.  Those are things that are designed into
> the city's infrastructure over decades and unfortunately Atlanta (and
> the surrounding suburbs) never seem to have elected leaders who can see
> further then their next election.  It's sad, but it's true.
>
> -Jim P.
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>



-- 
KingBahamut
http://doc.gwos.org - Definitive Ubuntu Documentation
"I could tell you the probability, but you wouldnt like it."
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...