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I'm deleting this statement for being not NPOV and without basis:
The referenced page on Forester's website does not even mention the term "path", so it does not serve as evidence for his alleged "outspoken resistance to dedicated bicycle paths". Even if such information could be referenced, a correlation between it and the "failure" noted is not established either. There are many other factors that are arguably much more significant in why there are no more segregated bicycle facilities in the United States, that have nothing to do with Forester.
Ironically, Forester is currently very busy trying to reverse a series of court decisions in Los Angeles that have found in favor of municipilities treating dedicated bicycle paths as wilderness trails in terms of their responsiblity to keep them maintained and safe up to bikeway standards. The City of L.A. is arguing that bicycle paths are not like roads or sidewalks where the City is liable for accidents caused by improper design or maintenance, but they are like wilderness trails where all users use them at their own risk. Once again, Forester is acting in the true interests of cyclists, while his opponents continue to misunderstand him. -- Serge 18:34, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
This guy has dedicated his life to opposing cycle-specific infrastructure. The weasel words above imply that this in not the case. Not cool. Also, the statement 'there are no more segregated bicycle facilities in the United States' - what nonsense. There are many of them and large networks in planning or under construction in numerous towns and cities (NY, DC, LA, etc). If you're going to criticise others, maybe try getting some facts right yourself 86.26.161.245 ( talk) — Preceding undated comment added 02:44, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
This is not encyclopedic-standard writing: "Just as his father spent his entire life sneering at the foibles of the plebian middling classes, now John would dedicate his life to returning cycling to the mystic days of his troubled youth. To be continued (October 7, 2007)"
Also there is far too much detail about his personal life and his troubled relationship with his father; mostly irrelevant to an encyclopedia article on a cycling advocate. 213.131.238.25 16:03, 19 October 2007 (UTC)Dermot
The information I included is accurate, factual, and concerns subjects that Forester himself addresses in his own website. If Forester choses to make himself a limited public figure by addressing a given subject on his website, then to reference that information in this encyclopedia article is appropriate unless you are in a position to prove: 1) it is inaccurate; 2) it is intended to denigrate him on a subject that he has himself has not "put into play," 3) it is libelous. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bepperson ( talk • contribs) 16:51, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
How about: 4) Mostly completely irrelevant in the context of this encyclopedia entry? You're not writing his unofficial biographry. Tomasrojo 09:52, 24 October 2007 (UTC)Tomasrojo
I have replaced the two missing paragraphs that Tomasrojo vandalized by removing on October 25. I am not writing Foresters unofficial biography, I am writing his official biography. the information is taken from Forester's own bio of his father, which is contained in the citations section below. Thomasrojo no doubt removed the paragraphs because, while not pointed out in the article, the information contradicts biographical information contained in Forester's C.V. In addtion, the introduction of certain biographical chracters is necessary because I have conducted interviews with these persons and they have comments on Forester's life and career which will be added as I go along. As I have previously noted, through his career, Forester has made himself a public figure and thus his life is subject to any scrutiny that is supportable by the facts and is not libel. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bepperson ( talk • contribs) 12:06, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
If his father was a Smith who used Forester only as his literary pseudonym - as our article on C. S. Forester suggests - then why is his son John not known as "John Smith"? -- Jack of Oz ... speak! ... 12:07, 11 December 2009 (UTC)