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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC needs revenue. The city should require all bikes that go on roads to register and have a machine readable license plate, so when they speed downhill/blow through stop signs and red lights the city can issue tickets like they do for cars. want to use the road? then obey the law [/quote]
The goal of most drivers is to make sure everyone is as unfree and miserable as they are. No one can escape. Crabs in a bucket mentality.[/quote]

There's been multiple cyclists going around groping women. They count on the fact that, without license plates, they can't be readily identified. Sounds like you're totally cool with people committing sexual assault so long as they're on a bike when they do it. [/quote]

Cyclists need license plates, and also insurance. [/quote]

If ever you want a reminder of just how batty the velophobe set has become, this is a good place to start.[/quote]

There's something very Trump-y about cyclists in DC. They dont think they have to follow *any* of the rules that everyone else respects and everything is always someone else's fault. Like Trump, they act like a bunch of spoiled, entitled brats. [/quote]

Cyclists don’t think we need insurance or license plates on bikes because, according to the rules that everyone respects, we don’t. I do have insurance, license plates, and identification for when I’m driving. I don’t need those things on my bike or when I walk or take Metro. I don’t think it’s spoiled or entitled not to comply with your imaginary alternative regulatory scheme that requires insurance and more bureaucracy for bicycles that are very unlikely to cause any damage to anyone except the cyclist. [/quote]

I actually started thinking through the implications of requiring cyclists to carry insurance and affix license plates to their bikes and, after a couple of seconds, realized that it was such an incredibly silly idea that only someone trying to parody the anti-bike folks would put it forth.

I mean, many cars that are driven dangerously in DC have obscured, fake, or no plates and potentially no insurance, but the problem is a lack of insurance and plates on bikes? Nice trolling . . .[/quote]

it would be better for everyone if cyclists weren't allowed to be anonymous and unidentifiable on the road. [/quote]

Why would that be better? How often do authorities need to be able to identify cyclists? [/quote]

I see cyclists put children in spectacularly dangerous situations on a fairly regular basis. I saw one with an infant in the basket on the front of her bike. It would be great if they could be readily identified to the police. [/quote]

That person should be arrested for child endangerment. [/quote]

It's curious how, if you put a 10 year old in the front seat of a car, people would think you're wildly irresponsible and almost no parent would even think to do it, even though that kid is strapped down with a seat belt, there's at least one airbag protecting them and there's two tons of steel around them. But no one bats at eye if you do this:

https://bunchbike.com/products/the-original-4-upgraded-electric-cargo-bike-for-families?srsltid=AfmBOopgF9JVUlhcWqgtCDCqzR1K5nGzwExl3YLCVcHVTkWkoYIYQ6iW[/quote]

If you only drive 15 mph I wouldn't think it's unsafe.  Are you unclear on the differences between driving and biking??[/quote]

And what happens when this bicyclist going 15 mph is hit by a car going 30 mph? All those kids are dead. [/quote]

Sounds like a good argument for protected bike lanes until drivers can get themselves under control.[/quote]

It’s not drivers’ fault that the design of these bikes is completely nuts. There are so many ways for children to be paralyzed or killed that these bikes should be outlawed. [/quote]

Someone rightly pointed out up thread that it's irresponsible drivers who are the problem. Nothing wrong with the bikes without you nut jobs.[/quote]

Uh huh. This is like designing a car where the children sit on the front bumper. If you put your kids on one of these bikes, you are 100 percent a terrible parent. [/quote]

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