Bicyclist knocks pedestrian unconscious, flees scene

[Anonymous]

I used to have to walk across Key Bridge every morning before work and evening after work and was almost mowed down by bikers many times on the bridge. They buzz you at 30 miles an hour yelling “on your left” as they’re right on top of you.

These are probably the same people I see biking up and down MacArthur Boulevard in their tight bike outfits every Saturday and Sunday, thinking they’re in the Tour de France.

And when they’re done with their weekend ride they go to Starbucks in their tight bike outfits and get a $22 dollar coffee drink and feel smug and satisfied with themselves.

[Anonymous]

I think the West Wing episode about Pluie and the All-Wolves Highway is applicable here…

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Anonymous wrote:Fine, go ahead and require license plates for bikes. I will happily comply with the law, just as I comply with traffic laws when I’m on my bike (or in my car). I look forward to seeing how you plan to enforce the rules for, say, 6-years-olds. Also, I assume that once you require cyclists to pay registration fees, we won’t have to constantly put up with complaints about spending money on bike infrastructure?

yeah, the government is going to have a really hard time deciding how to give licenses to do something to certain people but not other people. how will they ever figure out how to do that?

So kids don't need license plates on their bikes, or kids aren't allowed to ride them?

Somehow the government gives people licenses to practice medicine and own guns and drive cars and run restaurants and a million other things, and believe it or not, they've figured out how not to give them to six year olds.

The Council is completely captured by the bike crowd, so don’t hold your breath for any common sense bike safety regulations.

You sound so completely stupid when you write sh*t like that.

Car brains are convinced they're the most persecuted group in history when in reality they receive one of the most massive subsidies of money and space of all time.

If you want to complain about cars, start your own thread. We're tired of you trying to shout everyone down with these off-topic posts.

Calling out the unrelenting hypocrisy you've displayed throughout this thread is not "off-topic".

Again, start your own thread. This is about PEDESTRIANS complaining about assh0les on bikes not following the rules.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No one is worried about kids that is a red herring and easy to exempt. So is the constant attempts to drag cars into a convo about pedestrians fears on the sidewalk or in the cross walk from bikes.

Bikes need to slow down if they could hit a person. A child biking isn't going to hurt someone like a fully grown man speeding along. Yelling on your left or ringing a bell isn't sufficient when people are walking along. The expectation shouldn't be that walkers need to be constantly vigilant and ready to jump off the sidewalk to yield to bikes. This isn't attacking bikes it is asking bikers to be civil members of the community

I am completely dependent on my bike for getting around DC and agree with you completely. I regularly encounter people on bikes and e-bikes who seem to believe that they have the right-of-way on a sidewalk. They do not and no pedestrian is under any obligation to make room for them. If I'm walking on the sidewalk and a cyclist comes up behind me aggressively ringing their bell, I'm not moving over to accommodate them. Those people who ride e-bikes on sidewalks at any speed above 5 mph need to be ticketed. The rental e-bikes - Lyft, CaBi etc. - have very clear warnings to users prohibiting riding on sidewalks and yet there are morons out there riding them on sidewalks at 15 - 20 mph. When I see anyone do this, I tell them in no uncertain terms that I will knock them off their e-bike to prevent them from hitting anyone else. All pedestrians should do likewise.

A walking cane or umbrella angled properly can do wonders to keep bikes away from your immediate space. Don't you think?

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Anonymous wrote:The pedestrian is very fortunate they were struck by a bike and not a car, because if they were struck by a car they’d be dead now.

If we only had bikes in the city, and no cars or trucks at all, the number of pedestrian deaths each year would fall to single digits.

I really want you to say that to the pedestrian who was hit by this moron. Maybe it was you? You’re a POS.

Pedestrians need to watch where they’re going and follow the rules about where and when to cross a street. Most of the time when they get hit it’s because they weren’t in a crosswalk or were crossing against the light. I seriously doubt the cyclist is at fault here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to have to walk across Key Bridge every morning before work and evening after work and was almost mowed down by bikers many times on the bridge. They buzz you at 30 miles an hour yelling “on your left” as they’re right on top of you.

These are probably the same people I see biking up and down MacArthur Boulevard in their tight bike outfits every Saturday and Sunday, thinking they’re in the Tour de France.

And when they’re done with their weekend ride they go to Starbucks in their tight bike outfits and get a $22 dollar coffee drink and feel smug and satisfied with themselves.

This is because there would be a massive freak out if they put a bike lane on the bridge.

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Anonymous wrote:The pedestrian is very fortunate they were struck by a bike and not a car, because if they were struck by a car they’d be dead now.

If we only had bikes in the city, and no cars or trucks at all, the number of pedestrian deaths each year would fall to single digits.

I really want you to say that to the pedestrian who was hit by this moron. Maybe it was you? You’re a POS.

Pedestrians need to watch where they’re going and follow the rules about where and when to cross a street. Most of the time when they get hit it’s because they weren’t in a crosswalk or were crossing against the light. I seriously doubt the cyclist is at fault here.

heh. cyclist confirms every bad stereotype of cyclists. again.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I used to have to walk across Key Bridge every morning before work and evening after work and was almost mowed down by bikers many times on the bridge. They buzz you at 30 miles an hour yelling “on your left” as they’re right on top of you.

These are probably the same people I see biking up and down MacArthur Boulevard in their tight bike outfits every Saturday and Sunday, thinking they’re in the Tour de France.

And when they’re done with their weekend ride they go to Starbucks in their tight bike outfits and get a $22 dollar coffee drink and feel smug and satisfied with themselves.

This is because there would be a massive freak out if they put a bike lane on the bridge.

You can walk your bike across the bridge.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No one is worried about kids that is a red herring and easy to exempt. So is the constant attempts to drag cars into a convo about pedestrians fears on the sidewalk or in the cross walk from bikes.

Bikes need to slow down if they could hit a person. A child biking isn't going to hurt someone like a fully grown man speeding along. Yelling on your left or ringing a bell isn't sufficient when people are walking along. The expectation shouldn't be that walkers need to be constantly vigilant and ready to jump off the sidewalk to yield to bikes. This isn't attacking bikes it is asking bikers to be civil members of the community

I am completely dependent on my bike for getting around DC and agree with you completely. I regularly encounter people on bikes and e-bikes who seem to believe that they have the right-of-way on a sidewalk. They do not and no pedestrian is under any obligation to make room for them. If I'm walking on the sidewalk and a cyclist comes up behind me aggressively ringing their bell, I'm not moving over to accommodate them. Those people who ride e-bikes on sidewalks at any speed above 5 mph need to be ticketed. The rental e-bikes - Lyft, CaBi etc. - have very clear warnings to users prohibiting riding on sidewalks and yet there are morons out there riding them on sidewalks at 15 - 20 mph. When I see anyone do this, I tell them in no uncertain terms that I will knock them off their e-bike to prevent them from hitting anyone else. All pedestrians should do likewise.

I bike or take Metro to work, and I only ride in the street or in bike lanes, never on sidewalks. But when I’m a pedestrian downtown, which I often am, I definitely move when someone rides down the sidewalk and rings their bell at me! I don’t want to get hit. That’s also why I don’t ride on the sidewalk; I don’t want to hit people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used to have to walk across Key Bridge every morning before work and evening after work and was almost mowed down by bikers many times on the bridge. They buzz you at 30 miles an hour yelling “on your left” as they’re right on top of you.

These are probably the same people I see biking up and down MacArthur Boulevard in their tight bike outfits every Saturday and Sunday, thinking they’re in the Tour de France.

And when they’re done with their weekend ride they go to Starbucks in their tight bike outfits and get a $22 dollar coffee drink and feel smug and satisfied with themselves.

When I’m walking in a space shared with cyclists I take up as much of the path as possible so they have to slow down to get around me.

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Anonymous wrote:I used to have to walk across Key Bridge every morning before work and evening after work and was almost mowed down by bikers many times on the bridge. They buzz you at 30 miles an hour yelling “on your left” as they’re right on top of you.

These are probably the same people I see biking up and down MacArthur Boulevard in their tight bike outfits every Saturday and Sunday, thinking they’re in the Tour de France.

And when they’re done with their weekend ride they go to Starbucks in their tight bike outfits and get a $22 dollar coffee drink and feel smug and satisfied with themselves.

This is because there would be a massive freak out if they put a bike lane on the bridge.

You can walk your bike across the bridge.

The cars can deal with losing a tiny bit of space to a bike lane.