With apologies, we have as usual cast the good doctor as the boob. Sorry, Robert, but you’ve fallen in with a bad crowd after all.
Manu’s “presta and schrader” remark is a little bit of bike geek humor. There are two kinds of valves on bicycle inner tubes. Some people have opinions about which one is better. Obviously they don’t need separate lanes.
Santa Cruz County Greenway claims that their completely imaginary trail design is “wide enough”, whereas the actual trail being built, which is a real design, is “substandard” and “too narrow”. This is just a confusion tactic.
For comparison, in the USA’s third largest city, Chicago, there ARE some parts of their lakefront trail that are 20′ wide. Chicago is a city of 3 million, with 50 million visitors a year.
Closer to home, San Jose is the USA’s tenth largest city. (Seriously!) It has a sophisticated public transit system and trail system. Their city planning guide calls for “Class I Bikeway standards, typically 8′ to 12’ in paved width.”
And finally, our Westside Rail Trail — well loved by thousands every day — is 12′ to 16′ wide depending where you check.
Bud Colligan’s only goal is to create angst and confusion around this, with all problems being solved by, “Simply outlaw rail transit.”