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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If cyclists would simply do THREE things, I would happily cede them a dedicated lane everywhere:

1) stop at red lights and wait until green to proceed, just like cars do.

2) stop at stop signs.

3) don’t shoal through traffic (that’s where traffic is temporarily caught behind a slow biker, gets an opportunity to pass the biker, does so, and then at the next red light, the biker weaves through the line of stopped cars to the front of the line, and runs the red light, forcing everyone formerly trapped behind them to be trapped yet again, over and over. This has the effect of slowing ALL traffic on the road down to the speed of the biker.)

If they’d quit doing those three things, people would stop hating them. [/quote]

I will do this as soon as I see cars doing the same thing. But literally today, I witnessed 7 cars just blow through stop signs without looking or caring about anything around them. I saw 2 cars simply ignore red lights, much to the distress of the pedestrians around them and drivers constantly ignoring speed limits as if it were a suggestion and not an actual rule.[/quote]

I drive two hours on secondary roads and surface streets five days a week. I see hundreds of cars at intersections each day, and I rarely see anyone run s red light that isn’t more than half a second into the red from yellow. Red light cameras have dramatically reduced red light running. Likewise for speeding, with speed cameras almost everywhere now. Stop signs? Same goes.

The fact that you claim to see all this JUST today proves you to be a liar.

But I see you ARE at least honest about being a reckless cyclist. Look in the mirror. You’re every bit as bad as the drivers you claim to see. You just as capable of killing s pedestrian as the driver of a car is. [/quote]

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