Monday, November 24, 2008
Memphis Makes Bicycling's Worst
Posted Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 4:00 AM
Bicycling magazine has released its best cities for cycling and guess what?
Memphis ... Not on the list.
Actually, the Bluff city did make one of their lists ... the one of the worst cities for cycling, along with Miami and Dallas.
Here's what they had to say:
"No bike lanes exist within the city limits of Memphis. And the city government, comprised of layers of bureaucracy, has repeatedly ignored or rejected requests from bike clubs, shops and other organizations to create facilities."
For more, visit Mary Cashiola's In The Bluff blog.
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REPRESENT! anyone have access to one of those stripey trucks so we can do some guerilla bike lane painting?
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Melanie, in this town, all a bike lane would do is take those targets bicyclists wear on their heads and paint them in colors designed to confuse and infuriate the bulls behind the wheel of cars and trucks. These are the same bulls that sincerely believe bikes are a threat to their ways of life -- and hey, gas is cheap again, there's no reason to question that way of life, right? The only way biking in Memphis works is sheer numbers; the bike lanes and other courtesies of the road may follow, but only then. Ben Franklin was thinking cyclists when he said we must all hang together or surely hang separately, and he never tried to cross Union on a two-wheeler during rush hour.
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