Re: Daytime running light popularity

On 10/29/2024 12:40 PM, Roger Merriman wrote:
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Not if there are paths etc that connect up, some of the older estates etc
have this, plus newer Low Traffic Areas ie making it awkward to use by car
as cut through but filters allow pedestrians/cycle etc to pass through.
 But again depends on who and what you design for.

 From personal experience I can tell you that residents often object to bicycle infrastructure, including multi-use paths, protected bicycle lanes, pedestrian/bicycle bridges, and passageways between neighborhoods, but once they are in place they like them and none of the problems that they were worried about happen.
There was one bridge in my area <https://maps.app.goo.gl/wZxHdbrY8heYSDir9> that was closed because it was unsafe. It provides a safe route to local schools. The residents on one side of the bridge were very much against it being rebuilt, for a variety of reasons that had no basis in fact. Now it's open, well-used by both students and others wanting to access the park it goes into.
A proposed multi-use path along a creek had residents whose houses backed up to the creek furious since they had believed that the access road, that became the path, would never be open to the public (even though it had been open in the past but without a nice trail). Once the trail was completed it was fine and no one complains anymore <https://maps.app.goo.gl/5pCeHZSPM1b9uts7A>. Some of the objections to the trail were quite amusing. One woman said that there would be teenagers engaging in "hanky-panky" on the trail. Another woman said that vultures would pick up babies and fly away with them. Some residents said that criminals would jump the fences and break into their homes, though the reality is that criminals prefer to drive to their targets to burglarize them.
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