BIKE: Most Dangerous Cities For Walking

[Michael Bluejay]

I did a little digging around on this story and found something that 
hasn't been reported in the overwhelming majority of media reports:  
the kids are black.  (The driver is white.)  Was race a factor in the 
driver's decision to try to kill the kids?  I don't know, but it makes 
ya wonder.

BTW, another thing mostly unreported is that the husband of the driver 
claims that his wife takes six prescriptions a day for paranoid 
schizophrenia and that she hasn't been able to work for 15 years 
because she can't handle the stress -- but that mowing down the kids 
was out of character for her because she's a loving person.

-MBJ-


On Dec 6, 2004, at 5:01 PM, Lane S. Wimberley wrote:

> Perhaps this is related to (or explains) what happened in
> St. Augustine, FL, today, as you may have already seen reported on
> Drudge...
>
> "Woman Charged With Running Down Boys Who Hit SUV With Golf Ball"
>
> http://www.local6.com/news/3974410/detail.html
>
> What a world.
>
> -Lane
>
>> From: Dennis Abbott <bicycleadventure>
>> To: Austin Bikes <forum>
>> Subject: Re: BIKE: Most Dangerous Cities For Walking
>> Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 20:42:33 -0600
>>
>> I lived and biked commuted in Fort Lauderdale FL for almost a year and
>> the place is absolutely unliveable and darn near impossible to bike
>> commute in.  A couple of major reasons:
>>
>> * freaky white people that have built walled-off neighborhoods that
>> take up several blocks and have security gates.  This elininates all
>> but collector roads for travel.  No shoulders or bike lanes on
>> collectors either.
>>
>> * old folks that really should not be driving.  They have actually
>> painted LARGER stripes on the road to alleviate this problem.  For
>> some reason its not turning out to be the optimal solution.
>>
>> * when they drained the swamp to build the neighborhoods they had to
>> dig canals to build up the land and help drain off water.  They built
>> these not in straight lines but instead in esthetically pleasing curly
>> q's all over the place.  There are no bridges crossing these,
>> therefore if you find a neighborhood street it usually ends at a canal
>> and you have to backtrack.
>>
>> * Toll roads(FL Turnpike), this really limited access freeway
>> eliminates any east-west travel for pedestrians and cyclists.  They
>> made no accomodations like tunnels or overpasses at all, it was the
>> Berlin Wall for FL peds and cyclists.
>>
>> Absolutely no recreational weekend rides possible, its all houses and
>> collector roads from swamp to beach.  Worst place to live EVER.
>>
>> Dennis Abbott
>
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