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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]funny how bikers skeptical of the overwhelming evidence in favor of wearing helmets are quick to embrace new rules on drivers that have little connection to safety. banning drivers from turning right on red at any intersection anywhere in the district, after they've already stopped? talk about a solution in search of a problem. [/quote]

I don't bike and my kid doesn't bike except on trails because I don't feel it's safe in DC. I support safer street implementations in terms of bike lanes that keep bikers separate from drivers, ideally protected too, that slow cars down (currently advocating for speedbumps on my own street, happy about a traffic camera nearby, currently advocating for a red light camera at the end of my street where I drive every day).

The folks in this forum who complain about inadequate enforcement of bikers. To me, a driver, and parent, it only reinforces that some of you are jerks and probably the same jerks I'm cursing at every day when I drive. You literally only no how to deflect and every post just proves it. Safe streets is not just about bicyclists and you continuously, repeatedly, deflect and ignore that point.

There are basic driving laws that are simply not enforced in DC or are really inadequately enforced.

Willing to bet most of you all are those people who roll through stop signs.

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People who complain about cyclists putting three year olds on the handle bars of their bikes with no helmet are jerks? Gotcha. [/quote]

People who won't admit that street safety is not just about bicyclists and whine enforcement of bad drivers or improvements to slow down drivers, yes I find them jerk-ish. Because they literally want nothing done and are ok with the status quo which is NOT safe, not sufficiently for me/my kid which is why we don't bike. So I assume they are bad drivers who want to continue getting away with being bad drivers. In other words, yes, jerks.[/quote]

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