I gotta admit I'd like to meet a couple of the people profiled in the first article.
These links will probably work for about a week.
Bill
__o | I used to think that I was cool, running around on fossil fuel _`\(,_ | Until I saw what I was doing was driving down the road to ruin. (_)/ (_) | - James Taylor
Downtown SLC is a nightmare of distraction for motorists. They have the widest streets in the USA, 3 lane ea. dir. Safety studies show that a street in excess of 30 feet degrades visibility, reaction time and safety. In the middle of their streets they run Trolley service, 2 tracks w/ 12" concrete separation curbs. I wouldn't ride on SLC streets for safety reasons. I lived in SLC for 10 yrs.
I've only ridden downtown once, when I was a new rider last summer. I'm not too ashamed to admit that I rode slowly on the sidewalks. No one could feel safe riding those streets.
It is heartening though that last summer the police undertook a campaign to enforce pedestrian rights in crosswalks, ticketing those who failed to yeild to peds.
