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The Red and Black • Tuesday, November 6, 1990 • 3
Accidents prompt bikeways
By MIKE TERRAZAS
Campus Correspondent
It’s 7:45 on a Monday morning.
The sun barely peeks over the
east rim of Sanford Stadium as
vague thoughts of shrugged re
sponsibilities muddle through a
half-asleep brain. The student
steps absent-mindedly onto San-
ford Drive and then
WHOOOOSSSH! — a ten-speed
blows by on a strong wind accom
panied by the quick clicking of
changing gears.
Nothing like a brush with death
to wake you up in the morning.
Scenes like this are frequent on
campus, and many people are
calling for steps to ensure the
safety of pedestrians and cyclists.
The most talked-about solution
is the construction of bike paths
around Athens. Brian Martin, a
member of the Athens-Clarke
County Planning Commission, said
several plans for bikeways have
been drawn up since the early
1970s.
Martin is on a committee trying
to put together a'plan that has a
good chance of being funded.
“Support is picking up consider
ably,” he said.
One supporter is Athens resi
dent Sue Roalman, who is orga
nizing the Steering Committee for
Safe Cycling to address bikeways
and other issues.
“Hopefully, well be a broad-
based coalition of people who want
bike routes in Athens,” Roalman
said. “Students could be a major
support.”
The group will hold an organiza
tional meeting Nov. 18 in the
The student steps absent-mindedly onto Sanford
Drive and then a ten-speed blows by
accompanied by the clicking of changing gears.
Athens Regional Library.
Jim Corley, Athens traffic engi
neer, said anything is possible as
far as constructing bikeways, the
only problem is funding.
“There’s not really enough
money going around now to ad
dress the traffic problems of cars,”
Corley said.
But a gtxid bikeway system
might alleviate that, he added.
“It may actually reduce the need
for improved roadways to have a
good system of bike paths,” he said.
Roalman said, "I’d like to see a
perimeter road, and spokes
heading into the city. So you’d have
a commuter path.”
Regardless of whether bikeways
are constructed, Roalman and
others say something needs to be
done.
"Compared to even other parts of
the United States, we’re really
backward in terms of accomo
dating cyclists,” she said.
In the absence of bikeways, cy
clists are required by law to follow
the same traffic rules ns motorists.
Police could ticket a biker for
any traffic violation, including
speeding.
But University Police Chief
Chuck Horton likened ticketing cy
clists to ticketing jaywalkers,
saying it would be impossible to af-
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feet anything in doing so.
"I suppose we could set up road
blocks for cyclists," Horton said.
“But you can’t ticket the world’s
problems and expect them to go
away. You have to make people
want to do right.”
Cyclist Lance Schoychid said, “If
there’s not that many people
around, I don’t mind breaking the
rules. Sometimes you’re just in a
hurry.”
Catherine Wright, hit by a cy
clist Sept. 21, said, “Bicyclists
should be more conscious of the
fact they should be acting like a
car.”
“Sadly enough, I think about 95
percent of bikers on campus don’t
follow the rules of the road.”
Wright, a senior interior design
major, stepped in front of cyclist
Robert Ballard as he rode down
Baxter Street.
Ballard, a senior political sci
ence major, screamed out a
warning to Wright after she
stepped onto the cross walk, but
was unable to avoid the collision
Both were hospitalized.
Horton would like to see bicycles
banned on Sanford Drive just as
cars are, and said “technically, we
could do that, but bicyclists are just
one problem.
LETTERS
From page 1
tribution to Desert Shield.
Robyn Willingham, a
freshman pre-veterinary medi
cine major, said it’s great to fi
nally get a response after weeks
of writing.
“I think it’s great and I’m going
to keep doing it,” she said.
Willingham recieved a letter
from a 28-year-old male soldier
who wrote of the hot, dusty
weather in Saudia Arabia. He
told her about his wedding
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ceived her surprise in a letter last
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“I didn’t ask for the money, but
I do like the letters,” she said.
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have gotten responses so far this
week.
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the most,” said Charles Wright, a
freshman industrial sales mtyor.
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more personal relationship,”
Mike Hancock, freshman phys
ical education major, said in an
attempt to reason with Wright.
Sealy said the students can
specify which sex they would like
to receive their letters, so Wright
quickly wrote “female” at the top
of his letter.
“Until someone writes me
back, I’m going to keep writing,"
he said.
The students said they write
letters to keep the soldiers in
touch with the world back home.
Tanya Taylor, a freshman ad
vertising major, writes about her
relationship with her boyfriend,
but said she hopes the letters
generate a sense of support from
the American people.
‘They need support from our
country,” she said.
Sealy said the students must
be cautious of the content of the
letters, such os sending photo
graphs, os Willingham did in a
previous letter.
Sealy told the class about her
experience trying to get through
airport customs on a visit to
Saudia Arabia 10 years ago.
She had a Cosmopolitan mag
azine, known for its revealing
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Saudia Arabian culture prohibits
any photographs of women
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she said.
“I told him to just rip the cover
off, but the whole magazine has
tons of pictures in bikinis and
showing flesh,” Sealy said
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situation is more personal.
Freshman biology major Sonya
Jones has a friend stationed
there. Her only contact with him
so far has been seeing him on
television, drinking a can of
Coca-Cola during the company’s
publicized shipping of the bev
erage to the soldiers earlier this
fall.
“It would be great if they could
be home for the holidays,” she
said.
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