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

[Fumesucker]

146. I see your point and understand your concerns..

My concern is this, we are rapidly becoming a culture where if you don't have money or a license then walking is the only means of transportation you will be allowed. I'll be blunt, I bicycle because I can't afford a car at this juncture and probably won't for the foreseeable future.

Your complaint seem to be more about wealthy people with a feeling of entitlement(tourists on rented bikes are seldom poor and a poor person would probably not have called the cops like that).

We live in a large and often very spread out country that also has an exceedingly poor public transportation system, car, bicycle or walk are the basic choices for a great many Americans. It would take me about three hours to walk to the closest grocery store and back and I could only fetch what I can physically carry. On my bike I can make it in about 45 minutes round trip while sitting down and carry a lot more at the same time.

As I told someone else recently, I'm seeing a lot more people riding bicycles for basic transportation even out here in the exurban deep south, one of the last places you'd expect to see it. Five years ago nobody at all was riding bikes on the roads here, now I see bikes often with packages every time I go to the store. We have no bike lanes, we have no bike paths, we have no sidewalks, half the time we don't even have shoulders on the road, just a dropoff and people are still riding bikes anyway..