One pedestrian death caused by a bicyclist's negligence and DU explodes with anti bicycle venom..

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75. me too

but I am usually on the bike when I see it.

It is generally so easy for me to dodge a pedestrian, except, oddly enough, when we are going in the same direction. Many is the time I have passed a fairly wide pedestrian walking right down the middle of the frigging path, and it always seems that if you try to pass them on the left, they will start drifting to the left as you begin to go there. I wonder if gravity helps to make that happen, or if it is just bad luck, or random chance and you don't notice the times it doesn't happen.

Yeah, rules schmules. Do you know why we have 4 way stops signs at every intersection in the downtown? Because they are the only things that keep the frigging motorists from driving way too fast. People behind the wheel of a weapon of mass destruction (as I call cars, which kill 40,000 people a year (without even trying!!!)) break the rules all the time.

To insist that I stop for a stop sign on an empty street, when my going through it harms precisely no one, just does not make any sense to me. It's unreasonable. I mean, come on. I am going about twelve mph. I am looking both ways, to avoid being pulverized by one of those motorized metal boxes. The street is empty. No pedestrians, and much like Iraq, no wmd. For me to come to a complete stop, re-start, go another block and stop, go another block and stop, and so on (because I work in the downtown, there is no way to avoid half a dozen stop signs on my way to work, even though I am only going 8 tenths of a mile) would add ridiculous amounts of time and effort to my commute.

And for no good reason other than to satisfy the absolutist rule following demands of others, who are more likely than not, not applying the same standards to their own driving (as by my estimate, approximately 90% of wmd operators seem to exceed the speed limit, myself included).

Yeah, put that down in the "not gonna happen" column.