tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545728414239486957.post2838156519315921923..comments2023-11-05T06:09:29.478-05:00Comments on BikeWalkLee Blog: News-Press: "Bicycling: 7 cities"--Scottsdale, AZMissionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15311101452934529208noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4545728414239486957.post-13973111388552673532015-07-23T16:09:34.357-04:002015-07-23T16:09:34.357-04:00I ride regularly in Scottsdale and while it's ...I ride regularly in Scottsdale and while it's true that their cycling infrastructure beats ours here in <br />SW Florida it still suffers the same problems as most areas. Multi use paths that put the cyclist at the wrong side of an intersection, bike lanes that begin and end for no discernible reason in the most unlikely of places and a haphazard approach to integrating the cyclist into the traffic flow. In Scottsdale, as in many other places, it seems that traffic engineers often view cyclists as sort of "super pedestrians" or as an afterthought; leading us into the aforementioned problems of connectivity and poor design. <br /><br />Still I congratulate Scottsdale and the surrounding greater Phoenix area for their efforts at integrating multi-modal transportation. they've done a better job at it than most but they still have a long ways to go.Mark Prestonnoreply@blogger.com