{"id":248,"date":"2009-10-30T21:45:15","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T10:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/?p=248"},"modified":"2013-01-10T22:43:26","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T11:43:26","slug":"the-cycle-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meganix.net\/pavement\/2009\/10\/30\/the-cycle-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"The cycle of war"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"05eThere is an ongoing battle between cyclists and just about everyone else \u00e2\u20ac\u201c motorists don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want them on the roads, pedestrians (like me) don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want them on the footpaths. The issue is a perennial filler for Sydney newspapers and has flared again this week in news stories, opinion pieces and letters to the editor.<\/p>\n

In Australia, those who argue on the cyclists\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 side point to the way in which cities in other developed countries have embraced the bicycle \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not necessarily all plain\u00c2\u00a0cycling overseas. Apparently one of the great battlefields in the war between bicyclists, pedestrians and motorists is the Brooklyn Bridge in New York.\u00c2\u00a0 Robert Sullivan, calling for an armistice, writes in the New York Times<\/a>: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The stripe painted down the center of the elevated Brooklyn Bridge walkway, to separate bicyclists from pedestrians, has become a line in the sand. We need to erase that line once and for all.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Here is an example where the record of a territorial struggle has been written on the pavement itself.<\/p>\n

\"09aAlmost every sign, symbol, graphic and graffiti marked on the roads and sidewalks is a claim for territory. The two examples photographed for today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s blog record instances where pedestrians have had a victory over cyclists, officially at least, and probably only temporarily. The ineptly obliterated bicycle symbol overpainted with a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPedestrian traffic only\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 stencil was on the bridge at the corner of St Kilda Road and Flinders Street in Melbourne in 2005. The \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGive way\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 stencils appeared in parks in the City of Sydney towards the end of 2008 after many complaints from pedestrian park-users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is an ongoing battle between cyclists and just about everyone else \u00e2\u20ac\u201c motorists don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want them on the roads, pedestrians (like me) don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want them on the footpaths. The issue is a perennial filler for Sydney newspapers and has flared again this week in news stories, opinion pieces and letters to the editor. In <\/p>\n

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