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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also enforce bike's yielding to pedestrians and slower moving bike traffic on bike paths - city sidewalks are not part of the tour de france[/quote]

This too.  If bikes can keep up with cars on a road, they should be good.  They should be fined if they're too slow and slowing down traffic.[/quote]

Again the ignorance of the average numbskull aggressive driver.

One of the reasons drivers in DC get so frustrated with bikers is because they are often travelling the same speed or slower on DC roads and keep having to pass the same person on a bike.

That is because the average travel speed on most DC roads is between 10-12 MPH which is a speed even most casual cyclists can keep up with.

So Joe Olney and Jane Germantown hit an open stretch of Connecticut or Mass Ave and gun it and get their panzer wanker SUV up to 45MPH for a block before getting enraged at having to slow down for someone on a bike going 15MPH who they then go around before doing a rage acceleration back to 45MPH only to have that same biker coast past them 2 blocks later.  And then they again gun it between the lights only to again be passed by the same biker.

Now you'd think with this happening over and over again a lightbulb would go off in Freddy Frederick's head and he would realize despite what the car commercial advertised that he in fact is not blissfully racing around an urban area with no other cars on the road but that he and his gas guzzling SUV are the traffic and are not making any better time than someone coasting along on their $300 bike.

But that would require Henry Herndon and Sammy Sterling to have working brains instead of being unthinking American consumers.[/quote]

Hilarious. A perfect description of DC’s commuter populace.[/quote]

Except that Thomas Tenleytown, Sheryl Shaw, Bob Brookland, Ernie Eckington, Debbie Dupont, Dan Deanwood, and Marion Barry Farm engage in sh*tty driving across the city as much if not more than their suburban counterparts.[/quote]

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