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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a big bike fan, but it's just wrong for cyclists to want to bike on major, heavy-traffic arteries with no bike infrastructure during rush hour, and NOT expect increased risk to themselves and to incur the wrath of drivers.  It's just not polite or being a good citizen to do that.  I love biking and I wish we had more opportunities to do it safely.  But the answer is NOT to deliberately misuse traffic arteries.  [/quote]

+1000

I love biking, and would love nothing more than to get to bike to work every day.  But when biking to work means slowing down countless people behind me, all having precious minutes shaved off their day- on a commute they no doubt planned and calculated as fitting a normal speed for a car- I don't understand how anyone could do that or thing that it's acceptable.  Hopefully the city will make better bike routes, but until then, I'll limit my riding to times when I know it's not inconveniencing hundreds of people. [/quote]

Not sure which city or county you live in, but DC, Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, City of Falls Church, and, yes, Montgomery all want MORE people to bike commute to help county/city goals on congestion, air pollution, and health.   Its not selfish at all.

Again, it is hard to make sense of these posts when the "bike commuting is bad" people won't say where they are referring to.

AFAICT the few occasions when someone will admit where they live, its the slice of MoCo in and near Potomac.   Not surprising so many entitled people on both sides there.   [/quote]

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