an unfortunate incident

[Irulan]

What ever happened to training a dog to walk at heel on a fixed length leash? I swear it's a rare sight when you see a human taking a properly trained dog ( slack leash, heel) for a walk.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

What ever happened to training a dog to walk at heel on a fixed length leash? I swear it's a rare sight when you see a human taking a properly trained dog ( slack leash, heel) for a walk.

Trying to remember the last time I saw a child in a restaurant that wasn't running all over the place too.

[sfa]

Trying to remember the last time I saw a child in a restaurant that wasn't running all over the place too.

They're there. You just don't notice them because they're sitting and behaving themselves. As with most things, it's the loud and ill-behaved that get the most attention. Same as drivers who think they never see cyclists to follow the rules of the road--it's only that they notice the ones who don't.

Sarah

[shootingstar]

Where I live I can't totally ignore multi-use paths sine it sometimes involves going on one for less than 1 kms. to switch onto a road route.

We live in a high rise building amongst a forest of more high rise buildings with some pleasant green space areas with ...several paths for pedestrians and walkers.

And in this highrise density area (not that horrible, believe me. Touted as an example within international urban planner designers as an example of livable, walkable and bikeable neighbourhood) ...there are ALOT of dog owners/walkers. Must be dog cabin fever that brings them and owners out too.

Visiting cyclists to our area would be amazed by the number of dogs prancing through our area.

HMMM...one day a dog count on the path might be worthwhile..

Quite scary to me as a cyclist are inexperienced roller-bladers. ANy area with alot of tourists renting roller-bladers and bikes can add to the chaos on MUPs.

Certainly the MUPS in Stanley Park and Coal Harbour Area, are scary during day because there are alot of tourists/inexperienced roller-bladers wobbling along.

I do use the entire length of MUPs in our area....very early in the morning. Or during colder seasons. Very pleasant when no one is around and rolling by the waterfront on bike.

Right now there is a MUP that runs through the Olympic athletes village that's being built for 2010. It's fine now but one wonders after construction what will happen.

[OakLeaf]

to follow up...

I've read that anything over a 15% differential in highway speed is dangerous. I've always assumed that's why the de facto speed limit is 63 when it's marked 55, 75 in a marked 65, etc.

MUPs expect people to interact safely with a speed differential of 1000% or more. That's crazy. Even on country roads, cars are rarely going more than 4-5 times the speed of bicyclists.


And... my dogs are gone now, but we used retractable leashes without incident. The key is paying attention. If you reel your dog in long before another person approaches, or ahead of a blind curve, then there's not a problem. Unfortunately, it seems that paying attention is a lost art