Free-Roadin'

When Stanford University set up a campuses wide system of bicycle "freeway" paths last fall officials hoped that the number of cycling accidents would drop. Six and a half months later, the school is almost ready to abandon the experiment.

The 6 1/2-month-old bike lanes "haven't been as great a success as we would have liked." Marty Raymond, bicycle safety coordinator at the school's Department of Public Safety, said She cited lack of enforcement as the primary weakness in the "freeway" system.

Rather than helping safety, bike lanes seem to be making things more dangerous.

Paramedics have been called for five separate University bicycle accidents since January, Raymond said. The Stanford Daily