Mapping combined ways for cycling and walking

[Minh_Nguyen (Minh Nguyễn)]

@Peter_Elderson

The assignment as a cycleway is a legal thing. The physical suitability does not define a path as a cycleway. Many ways are suitable for cycling; some of those get to be a legal cycleway.

We might as well be living on different planets. Phrases like “legal cycleway”, “legal sidewalk”, “legal street”, or “legal building” will only be met with blank stares among the authorities over here, because that isn’t the role of the law. In fact, the idea that we must be so dependent on the authorities to classify real-world phenomena for us would be anathema in this society. It’s the main reason I and other Californians were so rankled by someone hiding behind California law in defense of their notorious service=driveway2 proposal. We only treat young language learners like that:

To map the thing or to map the purpose and their illegitimate offspring

Identity has a complicated relationship with both form and function. When I was young, my parents would stick a label on various things around the house to help me learn their names in English: “bookshelf”, “piano”, “piggybank”, “cookie jar”. Ironically, the bookshelf held as many picture frames as books, but the store sold it to us as a bookshelf. The piano was technically an electric keyboard, but I practiced piano on it. Unlike the stereotypical piggybank, mine looked like a postbox, painted…