These are the only two references to Transit Facilities in the “greenway update” of the 1998 MBP. This new MBP update should have included a whole series of comments about continuous linear facilities for bikes and outline the minimum design standards for same, documenting the ineffectiveness for transportation cyclists to regularly use these facilities.

If you are interested in true change, accident prevention, useful, safe and cost effective facilities you must look closely at the ‘greenway update’ medium range projects and start screaming. Please look long range to the Independence transit and road plans and note that there will be no real chance to parallel this major arterial for bikes. Look to the North east corridor and know that no continuous linear facility is planned at this point for bikes. These two projects will receive huge amounts of CMAQ and bike monies and there are no hard plans at this critical time of project design submission and air quality deadlines that are fast approaching.
Let’s not make folks jump on and off sidewalks to cross interstate moats to get to uptown or out if it, give us continuos on road or off road facilities.

As for the Gaston DUI, as published in the Charlotte Observer, ‘no driver has ever been killed by a cyclist.’