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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that a lot of the posters here that are equating this with other reckless driving in DC aren't grasping the full magnitude of Sunday's event. My family, including my 5 year old in the backseat, got caught directly in the mass of dirtbikes/ATVs on Georgia Ave. It wasn't just one, or a few of these bikes driving recklessly. It was hundreds of them running red lights at high speeds, speeding on the wrong side of the road, riding up onto the sidewalks into the grassy areas beyond, and narrowly missing hitting both pedestrians and other vehicles on the road while taunting them. The estimate that one article gave of 100 bikes isn't accurate - there were at least 200, if not more. It was terrifying.

And yes, I regularly do get mad about cars (yes, they are often commuters) driving recklessly through DC streets, and I wish the police did more about it. I live on a street that people frequently use as an alternate to Georgia Ave, and I find myself yelling at cars a few times a week for not stopping for pedestrians in the crosswalk, speeding, etc. The difference from this event is that it isn't hundreds of cars driving recklessly at one time.[/quote]

Yes, it's scary. All cases of reckless driving are scary. It doesn't matter what you're driving recklessly. The reckless driving is the issue, not the dirt bikes.[/quote]

Except it wouldn't be possible for hundreds of cars to drive recklessly at the same time in the radius that the dirtbikes were. I have no issue if the city wants to legalize them/require registration/teach safety courses, but there needs to be a better plan of action in place by the city, and particularly the police, when events like this happen so they aren't just given free rein of the city.[/quote]

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