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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1) they are required: "The law mandates that riders under 16 are required to wear a helmet while cycling in the District of Columbia."

2) a bigger concern is the DC drivers who are speeding and don't even know how to properly come to a full stop at a stop sign. So sick of people in giant SUVs stopping in the middle of the crosswalk like they apparently never went to driving school or stopped caring or both.

Before anyone accuses me of being a bicyclist activist, I do not bike, but I do have kids (who wear helmets).

DC does pretty much no traffic enforcement. We have speed and red light cameras but there's barely any repercussion if you even get tickets and don't pay them. There was an increase in booting recently (good) but it was barely anything for awhile. 2 people for the whole city with millions of dollars in unpaid tickets.

It's basically a free for all for people to drive like complete jerks. Really, you want to start a thread about kids wearing helmets?[/quote]

The streets here aren't nearly as dangerous as all the hyperventilating here suggests, but if they were, it would beg the obvious question: What are earth as people doing taking children into all of that? And why aren't there more rules protecting those kids from their parents' poor choices? [/quote]

Maybe you and I just view safety differently?  I think that a few kids being killed and more being injured every year is a problem that needs to be fixed.  Are you just saying it's the price of convenience?

Have you ever read "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"?  It's a short story, can probably find a free copy from an internet search, and maybe explains why some of us aren't OK with that current level of safety.[/quote]

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