![]() Read the country information page for additional information on travel to Costa Rica. The Costa Rican government provides additional security resources in areas frequented by tourists. Civility, after all, is free in all directions.Reissued with obsolete COVID-19 page links removed.Įxercise increased caution in Costa Rica due to crime.Ĭountry Summary: While petty crime is the predominant threat for tourists in Costa Rica, violent crime, including armed robbery, homicide and sexual assault, occurs in Costa Rica. Don’t holler at people or creatures, even when the urge to be correct wells up inside like a tiny fist. They answered my questions well enough, then ended with impassioned pleas, behests for humanity to please keep their act together as we try to coexist in a variety of athleisure. In fact, every person with an official title seemed a tad tired of delivering a kindness reminder. We wave and nod, coo at the dogs, woo at the revelers. I do believe from experience that most people strive to get along. “It’s probably some kind of commentary on how people are willing to get along in crowded spaces,” Fowler said, a sentence that has haunted me since. Yacht rock blaring from portable speakers. If it’s not directional arrows, it’s e-bikes. Any trail user can tell you that there’s always something to be cranky about. “I like the fact that we’re community-driven,” he said. People are passionate about arrows and signs because they’re passionate about the trail. He preferred to talk about what it all means, which is how alternate transportation can flourish in Florida. ![]() And if Dunedin wants to make a proposal, he said, the county could potentially look into paving the grassy area, which would turn those breakaway zones into one big block of pavement with equal lanes, matching the rest of the trail.įor the record, Gow thinks “keep right” works along most of the trail but that the old way works best in busy Dunedin. Keeping right on a bike could mean crashing into people and poodles.Īt this literal and figurative fork in the road, I asked, what should the people do? Cyclists are welcome to stay right on the wide side, Fowler said. This means the wide and skinny parts are divided by a grass median. ![]() Dunedin has breakaway trail sections, as does Largo and Seminole (Fowler reports no drama in those areas). In particular, he points to a certain area that I admit also vexes my aching brain. He started asking questions and eventually joined the Forward Pinellas Bicycle Pedestrian Advisory Committee, where he pushed for keeping Dunedin’s section as is. He spends his days finding lost heirlooms with a metal detector and jogs on the trail three times a week. ![]() This one-size-fits-all mindset really rusts the gears of Steve Thomas, who retired to Dunedin from South Carolina five years ago. “We thought that would be too confusing.” “It wasn’t an option to have 1-mile in the Dunedin area that remained,” Fowler said. The lane direction markings have been repainted. Are you ready?Ī cyclist rides north along the Pinellas trail as it crosses Wilson Street on Aug. Fall down the rabbit hole of local governance minutiae, the interdepartmental hot potato, the snail’s pace of community progress, the wearying anthropology of human behavior, and prepare to cackle incredulously. Were the markers being repainted? Were the rules. The internet sprang to life with theories. That was the decree, and it mostly worked.Īround February, though, trail users noticed curious black blocks covering our friendly stick figures with no signage explaining why. This split, at its most noble, kept runners, pooches and waddling children away from Tour de France hopefuls and tank topped bar crawlers on beach cruisers. Wide side with image of cyclist = biking side. Skinny side with image of walker = walking side. The trail’s old traffic patterns perhaps defied American standards of movement, but they were clear: Longtime readers may note that I am one of those townsfolk.įor the decade I’ve lived near the trail, I’ve observed that chiding those in the wrong lane has been something of a local pastime. For our purposes today, we’re zooming in on one of its most high-traffic areas: Dunedin, charming coastal city of beer, art and dedicated townsfolk. The Pinellas Trail is a 57-mile community lifeline running through the most densely populated county in Florida.
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