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Old 02-06-2008, 04:38 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Default Cyclists anger homeowners in AZ

Not local, but interesting nonetheless. Is this near the NMBS venue?

The reader comments following the story are worth reading, too.

Speeding' bicyclists anger homeowners

Jane Larson
The Arizona Republic
Feb. 6, 2008 10:59 AM
SCOTTSDALE - Homeowners and bicyclists are squaring off in a gated community on Scottsdale's border with Fountain Hills.

Homeowners in Hidden Hills complain that cyclists are using 145th Way, a steep private street at the end of Via Linda, as a training ground where they speed down the long, curving hill en masse and invite accidents.

Cyclists say homeowners are exaggerating problems with a minority of riders and reneging on their subdivision's 2000 agreement with Scottsdale to allow a non-motorized connection to Fountain Hills.

"If this is not abated, tempers will continue to flare," homeowners' association president Sandra Goldenberg recently warned the Scottsdale Transportation Commission.

Link to full story:
http://www.azcentral.com/community/s...ts0207-ON.html
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Old 02-06-2008, 04:42 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Wow, the comments section after the article you linked to is pretty depressing.
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Old 02-06-2008, 04:44 PM   #3 (permalink)
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"Private Road!!"

At least they haven't resorted to planting railroad ties wrapped with german razor wire yet.
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Old 02-06-2008, 05:09 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Wow, the comments section after the article you linked to is pretty depressing.
"In my experience, bicyclists are some of the weirdest people on a social level and the most rudest, selfish, reckless riders on the public roads."

wow, I didn't know we had met, small world!!
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I'll take the weird thing, but rudest, selfish and reckless?

What do you call it when you want to close an easement to a trail, and agreement that was in place BEFORE you even purchased your house? Is that not selfish?

And if you want rude or reckless, then you should hop on a bike and watch a few people in cars--especially the ones on cell phones!!
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