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At least in your second sentence you square the lie and admit that they come nowhere close to following the law better than cars; that’s just something you like to say.[/quote]

That poster is right. Nobody said you had to like it.[/quote]

It's laughable to anyone who bikes or walks in the city that they drive safely. I guess you get off on knowing they annoy people, which is fine. A few will turn themselves to pancakes annually and hopefully they don't hurt too many pedestrians along the way.[/quote]

I work in Gallery Place and have almost been hit by one of these guys on K Street just north of Gallery. The guy ran a red light and turned left into a group of pedestrians. I do occasionally see cops parked at 5th and K, but when they are not there the moped drivers do whatever they want. I am not against making a living but am against driving into a group of pedestrians or driving on the sidewalk.[/quote]

The difference is that a car would kill all of them; a moped, much less likely. I watch traffic carefully and have not see the moped drivers (the Latino delivery drivers) ignore traffic lights but did almost get creamed by a driver turning on a red arrow yesterday. [/quote]

Well I have seen it many, many times all over downtown. They’re a menace to pedestrians.[/quote]

Also, as someone who has had to go to ER after hitting my head in an accidental fall on the street in DC, I cannot even imagine how much it hurts to get hit by a moped, even one going 10-15 mph.  It is absolutely not a minor thing to drive a moped toward pedestrians who are in a crosswalk.[/quote]

If you think getting hit by a moped will really hurt you, you should try getting hit by a two ton SUV.[/quote]

I was knocked down by a bike rider while stepping into a crosswalk with the “walk” light on. Vehicle traffic had already stopped for the light. I stepped into the crosswalk and she hit me from the left at full speed. Knocked me off my feet into the air. I landed on the ground and fractured my coccyx and bruised my hip so badly I had to go on blood thinners for 4 months. The bike rider  - a white woman in her 30’s - she cussed at me and then got back on her bike and fled away. This is how white people on bikes do. [/quote]

Yep.  The Venn Diagram of “People Who Bike”, “Self-Centered, entitled pricks”, and “People who put up liberal yard signs” is just a circle. [/quote]

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