Duly note taht there never was any such research, and that actually, it does matter what the order is (there are some you can get away with switching, and some that you can't), and that actually, a whole lot of people *do* struggle with reading this stuff (as evidenced by actually measuring their speed & comprehension, as opposed to whether they post "it is easy."
However, it needs to be noted that how good readers read is not necessarily the same as how people learn to read. (Programmers: Do you code the same way that you did when you were learning it? Or are there a few zillion shortcuts that are automatic now?) We may recognize words by shape, but the letters still represent speech sounds, and *learning* what they are is rather important for learning to read fluently. There are also different ways the brain is wired for different people (f'rinstance, when females are processing language, it tends to go to more parts of the brain than when men are processing language).
Few weeks back the bottom trailers were scrolling that Obama had won the Nobel Prize, there were storms wreaking havoc somewhere, and... but the "live breaking news" that couldn't be interrupted for these mundanities? "Cops chasing truck in Texas." No, CNN is not about news.
Not going to defend stupidity here.
However, drivers have many, many, many, many more cues and feedback RE: what they should be doing. The lanes and rules are set up and widely explained. It takes more jerkiness to be a jerk.
And how often, exactly, do you see that happening? What percentage of the cyclists you see... oops, and the ones not noticed at all 'cause they're not interfering...
"But hey, if you want to go to the worst drug infested part of town that you can find, waving around a fist full of cash, and screaming "what n***** thinks he can take this from me", well, have at it. It's your life, and you are still responsible for your own behavior."
THink about this.
Why should getting to work on my bike on the best route I can find be equated to that?
What are you saying about the roads and drivers ? -Guess what, I don't scream and flail when I'm riding into work... yet, you seem to be implying that even my mellow behavior is enough to incite behavior comparable to that of desperate criminals...
I mean, how long a blind curve are we talking about? Seems we went from "passing going around a blind curve" to holding up traffic for five miles. Welp, actually, I'm not going to do that -- just as in the days when we had an old VW, up those mountain hills you pull over to let folks by who had a little more power.
I think the silly laser lights are cute but don't think they're designed with traffic engineering in mind. "Not an expert but" -- if I were driving I'd be distracted by them in a negative way, and my eye would be drawn to the lines instead of the lines doing that instant "guide me away" thing that the painted ones do.
And why are they jerks?
Imagine if a population were plunked down into an infrastructure of signage and roads... and the roads and facilities weren't actually designed for the vehicles in question. Welp, they *originally* were - bicycles were the reason for lots of roads to be built in the first place - but since then design has gotten carcentered. You pull up to a place where you're supposed to wait for the light to turn to green... only it never does. The sizes of lanes and visibility, etc. aren't set up for your vehicles. You're told "follow the rules of the road" but often that simply doesn't work. Which rules? Should you ride with or against traffic? How do you make a left turn? Most folks aren't going to go out of their way to research the stuff out... they're going to figure it out as best they can on the fly -- and be "jerks" sometimes doing it. Add to that some of the simply counterintuitive realities (like that riding against traffic is more dangerous)...
I ain't sayin' it's a good thing, but I'm suggesting that drivers would fare no better.
Passing me so closely you endanger my life does have something wrong with it.
The "if I can kill you, you should jsut get out of my way" attitude that you're projecting -- oh, in nicer words, but that's how bullies phrase it -- is chilling and all too common in driving and other human interactions.
Major stress and inconvenience? Count the seconds. If your infrastructure is such suckage that it's significant, then it's the infrastructure that is at fault, not the cyclist.
I can't quite grasp how you perceive describing riding strategies as believing to be on high moral ground. Huh? Trying to get across town? I get thoroughly sick of being lumped in a group. Look at *me* when I'm riding, and judge on my behavior, not your prejudgements. (I share your frustration with road-hog peletons and guerrilla riders.).Getting a long-term plan that includes cyclists as well as automobilists -- with the bicycle facilities being planned by people who actually know what happens when you use them - makes for much less friction. See slide 9 and further at http://www.bikelib.org/completestreets/apwa_completestreets0507.pdf for an explanation of why cycle paths are often a crappy answer.
I share your frustration with road-hogging peletons, though, and wish the arm of the law would extend to them. I've heard that cyclists are about the only group whose advocates implore the arms of the law to hand out more tickets...
And no, you're not hosed if you're in the US, necessarily.
Could be you're overworked and overstressed enough so that it's exponentially more difficult to make changes, which require things like fortitude that are hard to come by living breath to breath. If that's the case I'd say find something that you can start small and LOG RIDE REPEAT. Small enough so you ***have*** to do it, period, no excuses, after all you are already giving 110% so what difference will 112% make?
Your whole phrasing is set up as "somebody else tell me what to do so I can have one more failure because they didn't really understand." If you spend some of that time commuting on your bike it will clear lots of that crap out of your system;)
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... and their diversity? Wonder if they weren't just feeling salty hangin' out with just guys.
Works here reasonably well because our roads are less traveled... http://www.fcgov.com/streets/snow-additional.php Fort Collins does a good job, and Minneapolis has a large year-round cycling commuting community (evidence here: http://tcstreetsforpeople.org/node/1348 ) , as well as Chicago, Illinois per http://bikewinter.org/
Duly note taht there never was any such research, and that actually, it does matter what the order is (there are some you can get away with switching, and some that you can't), and that actually, a whole lot of people *do* struggle with reading this stuff (as evidenced by actually measuring their speed & comprehension, as opposed to whether they post "it is easy."
However, it needs to be noted that how good readers read is not necessarily the same as how people learn to read. (Programmers: Do you code the same way that you did when you were learning it? Or are there a few zillion shortcuts that are automatic now?) We may recognize words by shape, but the letters still represent speech sounds, and *learning* what they are is rather important for learning to read fluently. There are also different ways the brain is wired for different people (f'rinstance, when females are processing language, it tends to go to more parts of the brain than when men are processing language).
could have a field day trifling with it.
Few weeks back the bottom trailers were scrolling that Obama had won the Nobel Prize, there were storms wreaking havoc somewhere, and ... but the "live breaking news" that couldn't be interrupted for these mundanities? "Cops chasing truck in Texas." No, CNN is not about news.
Not going to defend stupidity here. However, drivers have many, many, many, many more cues and feedback RE: what they should be doing. The lanes and rules are set up and widely explained. It takes more jerkiness to be a jerk. And how often, exactly, do you see that happening? What percentage of the cyclists you see... oops, and the ones not noticed at all 'cause they're not interfering...
"But hey, if you want to go to the worst drug infested part of town that you can find, waving around a fist full of cash, and screaming "what n***** thinks he can take this from me", well, have at it. It's your life, and you are still responsible for your own behavior." THink about this. Why should getting to work on my bike on the best route I can find be equated to that? What are you saying about the roads and drivers ? -Guess what, I don't scream and flail when I'm riding into work... yet, you seem to be implying that even my mellow behavior is enough to incite behavior comparable to that of desperate criminals... I mean, how long a blind curve are we talking about? Seems we went from "passing going around a blind curve" to holding up traffic for five miles. Welp, actually, I'm not going to do that -- just as in the days when we had an old VW, up those mountain hills you pull over to let folks by who had a little more power. I think the silly laser lights are cute but don't think they're designed with traffic engineering in mind. "Not an expert but" -- if I were driving I'd be distracted by them in a negative way, and my eye would be drawn to the lines instead of the lines doing that instant "guide me away" thing that the painted ones do.
And why are they jerks? Imagine if a population were plunked down into an infrastructure of signage and roads... and the roads and facilities weren't actually designed for the vehicles in question. Welp, they *originally* were - bicycles were the reason for lots of roads to be built in the first place - but since then design has gotten carcentered. You pull up to a place where you're supposed to wait for the light to turn to green... only it never does. The sizes of lanes and visibility, etc. aren't set up for your vehicles. You're told "follow the rules of the road" but often that simply doesn't work. Which rules? Should you ride with or against traffic? How do you make a left turn? Most folks aren't going to go out of their way to research the stuff out... they're going to figure it out as best they can on the fly -- and be "jerks" sometimes doing it. Add to that some of the simply counterintuitive realities (like that riding against traffic is more dangerous)... I ain't sayin' it's a good thing, but I'm suggesting that drivers would fare no better.
Passing me so closely you endanger my life does have something wrong with it. The "if I can kill you, you should jsut get out of my way" attitude that you're projecting -- oh, in nicer words, but that's how bullies phrase it -- is chilling and all too common in driving and other human interactions. Major stress and inconvenience? Count the seconds. If your infrastructure is such suckage that it's significant, then it's the infrastructure that is at fault, not the cyclist.
I can't quite grasp how you perceive describing riding strategies as believing to be on high moral ground. Huh? Trying to get across town? I get thoroughly sick of being lumped in a group. Look at *me* when I'm riding, and judge on my behavior, not your prejudgements. (I share your frustration with road-hog peletons and guerrilla riders.) .Getting a long-term plan that includes cyclists as well as automobilists -- with the bicycle facilities being planned by people who actually know what happens when you use them - makes for much less friction. See slide 9 and further at http://www.bikelib.org/completestreets/apwa_completestreets0507.pdf for an explanation of why cycle paths are often a crappy answer.
I share your frustration with road-hogging peletons, though, and wish the arm of the law would extend to them. I've heard that cyclists are about the only group whose advocates implore the arms of the law to hand out more tickets...
And no, you're not hosed if you're in the US, necessarily. Could be you're overworked and overstressed enough so that it's exponentially more difficult to make changes, which require things like fortitude that are hard to come by living breath to breath. If that's the case I'd say find something that you can start small and LOG RIDE REPEAT. Small enough so you ***have*** to do it, period, no excuses, after all you are already giving 110% so what difference will 112% make? Your whole phrasing is set up as "somebody else tell me what to do so I can have one more failure because they didn't really understand." If you spend some of that time commuting on your bike it will clear lots of that crap out of your system ;)