On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 11:22 -0500, John F. Eldredge wrote: > Nathan Edgars II <nerou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 9/28/2011 12:08 PM, Josh Doe wrote: > > > Width of outside lane (no tags for this AFAIK) > > > Shoulder details (width, surface: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Shoulder) > > > > This only applies if you ride as far right as possible. It's safer to > > ride in the middle of the right lane, and causes little inconvenience > > if > > there's low traffic or more than one lane in each direction. > > > > Riding a bicycle in the middle of the outside lane will cause little > inconvenience to motorized traffic if there are multiple lanes each way AND > traffic is light. If you try this at rush hour, I guarantee you will tick > off a lot of motorists, and possibly even receive a ticket from the police > for impeding traffic, depending upon the local traffic laws.
Show me a state that expects bicyclists to ride so far to the right that they endanger themselves, and I'll show you a state that shouldn't have roads to start with... _______________________________________________ Tagging mailing list Tagging@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging
