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Re: "Who killed the bike lanes?"

"Peter Clinch" <p.j.clinch@dundee.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:6icntuFps5i3U1@mid.individual.net...
> Tadej Brezina wrote:
>
>> Why the f*** are you cycling on the sidewalk?
>> You're not going to increase your safety significantly
>
> Oh, I don't know... some research suggests he'll be safer by a clear
> *negative* factor (i.e., significantly more dangerous on the pavement)

By pavement, do you mean sidewalk?  In the US we regard the material that is
used for the surface of a street as pavement (which wouldn't be involved in
a sidewalk-- even if it is exactly the same material, it still wouldn't be
_called_ pavement), so your terminology is confusing, and I believe you've
conveyed exactly the reverse of what you were intending to say to readers in
the U.S., since your sentence reads like this over here:

> Oh, I don't know... some research suggests he'll be safer by a clear
> *negative* factor (i.e., significantly more dangerous on the surface of
> the road)

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