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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know where this pull to the right nonsense is coming from

Cyclists have a right to the road just like cars

I blow through stopsigns and treat traffic lights like yields but I always check first.  I used to obey all traffic laws but in DC no bikers actually wait at red lights or come to a full and complete stop at a 4 way stop so I joined the local customs.

It does amaze me watching some bikers blow through without looking.  Thats asking for a serious accident.

I love the bike lanes in DC.  Its tough riding in downtown I tend to avoid it if at all possible.  Sometimes there is no choice and its pretty dangerous.  I have a right to be on the road.[/quote]

I got this far in this thread before I had to comment.

I take 13th st NW a lot. I also take that stretch of road up by Montgomery college that runs into eastern avenue on side and Fenton on the other. That one even HAS a wide sidewalk clearly marked as a bike path. Their own bike path!!! Yes, it ends. It turns into an ordinary sidewalk right beofre piney branch. An ordinary, empty sidewalk, like 99 per cent of the sidewalks in nw dc. At most times, especially during rush hour.

It is legal to bike on sidewalks in dc.

Tell me, in the name of all that is holy: why do so many cyclists insist on biking on a road barely wide enough for two lanes od traffic and the parked cars on either side of it and not the sidewalk? Tell me what insane death urge sends you biking down 16th street, weaving between buses and cars going 35mph, instead of taking the perfectly empty, perfectly smooth sidewalk next to them?

Sidewalk biking is legal. And despite reports of how pedestrian friendly dc is, most of its pedestrian byways look like a neutron bomb landed, or everyone died of zombie plague locked in their houses.

Why are you on the roads??? Why are you choking on the hills going up eastern Ave and not just staying on the sidewalk?[/quote]

Intersections can be very dangerous when riding on the sidewalk.  If you're moving at 10-15 mph, cars that are turning have a hard time seeing / predicting you approaching the intersection.  It's not as safe as you think it is.

For long stretches of sidewalk with few intersections, I agree with you (see the area around the Washington Hospital Center).[/quote]

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