Larry Nelson wrote:
> I thought I was a pretty good
article.
I didn't think it was such an awful article
either; some people might not have agreed with every point made in the
interview or might have wished that certain issues that should have been
addressed would have been included, but it was a reasonably intelligent
short-format feature But even before seeing Matt's comment, the use
of "vehicle" rather than "motor vehicle" stuck out
like a sore thumb to me as I read it and saw the same error
repeated over and over (even aside from the awkward "fatal
car-vehicle crashes" in the first sentence, which I suspect will be
corrected online at some point).
If I had to guess, I would
assume that Noyce probably correctly said "motor vehicle" in the
interview because someone in his position would know that professionally,
and it is more likely that either the reporter or an editor got it wrong,
perhaps out of some misplaced interest in erroneously deleting the
"extra" word. I say that in part because there are no
quotation marks to indicate that the responses are verbatim quotations and
I am assuming that the reporter might have paraphrased for
brevity.
>> On Sep 30, 2013, at 11:27 AM,
"Matt Logan" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> When we talk about bicycle safety in terms of
interactions with cars, I
>> find it odd that a traffic
engineer would neglect to mention that the
#1
>> crash
scenario in Madison and the State of Wisconsin is a turning motorist
failing to yield to a bicyclist riding through the
>>
intersection. The Traffic Engineer quoted in the article instead suggests
separating modes – but that
doesn’t
fix the intersection
>> problem, in fact separation can make safety problems worse.
This is why
>> we need to keep turning the screws on the
traffic engineers
– they are
>> still stuck looking at problems in terms of automobiles. Heck,
Noyce can’t even correctly use the word
“Vehicle†(which is defined
in
>> state law to include bicycles).
>>
>> http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes/statutes/340.pdf
>>
>>
“Vehicle†means every device
in, upon, or by which
any person or
>> property is or may
be transported or drawn upon a highway, except railroad trains. A
snowmobile, an all−terrain vehicle, and
an
electric
>> personal assistive mobility device shall not be
considered a vehicle except for purposes made specifically applicable
>> by statute.â€
>>
>>
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