Comments on: Making the most of a tragedy http://blog.bikeleague.org/blog/2009/11/making-the-most-of-a-tragedy/ Blog for bikeleague Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:03:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: STL_Bike_Commuter http://blog.bikeleague.org/blog/2009/11/making-the-most-of-a-tragedy/comment-page-1/#comment-32437 STL_Bike_Commuter Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:59:18 +0000 http://www.bikeleague.org/blog/?p=710#comment-32437 Sorry to hear it must take a cyclist's life being taken to spur action. I appreciate you sharing this. It isn't an accident that Mississippi is the most bloated state when it comes to people who are obese. According to this article they are #1 in Obesity, "Mississippi topped the list of states with the highest prevalence of obesity. Almost 38 percent of Mississippi's adults are obese." They should be the most focused state on Bicycling! See this article for more details and the really sad statistic for 2018...which is close to 50% of our Great Nation will be Obese! http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/sciencemedicine/story/5C088B68301EEF8E86257674001430ED?OpenDocument Keep Cycling! Sorry to hear it must take a cyclist’s life being taken to spur action. I appreciate you sharing this. It isn’t an accident that Mississippi is the most bloated state when it comes to people who are obese. According to this article they are #1 in Obesity, “Mississippi topped the list of states with the highest prevalence of obesity. Almost 38 percent of Mississippi’s adults are obese.” They should be the most focused state on Bicycling! See this article for more details and the really sad statistic for 2018…which is close to 50% of our Great Nation will be Obese!

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/sciencemedicine/story/5C088B68301EEF8E86257674001430ED?OpenDocument

Keep Cycling!

]]> By: Froggie http://blog.bikeleague.org/blog/2009/11/making-the-most-of-a-tragedy/comment-page-1/#comment-32434 Froggie Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:46:14 +0000 http://www.bikeleague.org/blog/?p=710#comment-32434 During my 7 years stationed in Mississippi, between Meridian, Picayune, and Biloxi, it was downright scary to try riding a bike on those roads...in part because MDOT apparently doesn't believe in paved shoulders, even on the 4-lane highways. And in part because drivers down there are also downright scary. Only place I even remotely felt safe biking was within Biloxi. During my 7 years stationed in Mississippi, between Meridian, Picayune, and Biloxi, it was downright scary to try riding a bike on those roads…in part because MDOT apparently doesn’t believe in paved shoulders, even on the 4-lane highways. And in part because drivers down there are also downright scary. Only place I even remotely felt safe biking was within Biloxi.

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