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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1) they are required: "The law mandates that riders under 16 are required to wear a helmet while cycling in the District of Columbia."

2) a bigger concern is the DC drivers who are speeding and don't even know how to properly come to a full stop at a stop sign. So sick of people in giant SUVs stopping in the middle of the crosswalk like they apparently never went to driving school or stopped caring or both.

Before anyone accuses me of being a bicyclist activist, I do not bike, but I do have kids (who wear helmets).

DC does pretty much no traffic enforcement. We have speed and red light cameras but there's barely any repercussion if you even get tickets and don't pay them. There was an increase in booting recently (good) but it was barely anything for awhile. 2 people for the whole city with millions of dollars in unpaid tickets.

It's basically a free for all for people to drive like complete jerks. Really, you want to start a thread about kids wearing helmets?[/quote]

The streets here aren't nearly as dangerous as all the hyperventilating here suggests, but if they were, it would beg the obvious question: What are earth as people doing taking children into all of that? And why aren't there more rules protecting those kids from their parents' poor choices? [/quote]

If you listen to people in DC communities, they want safer streets. You personally may not care, but you're in the minority on that. I care, my neighbors care, and we will continue to vote accordingly and hope our representatives and the DC council heed the numerous concerns of their constituents. Generally speaking, DC residents favor traffic safety improvements rather than the freeforall "it's fine, do nothing, ever" attitude you espouse.[/quote]

Free for all? Do you even live here? Traffic accidents are extremely rare in Washington D.C. It's hard to speed because the congestion is terrible and traffic cameras are everywhere and the police are omnipresent. We have the biggest police force in the United States. If that's not enough, the blocks here are short, which means there are stop signs or traffic lights every five feet, with plenty of speed bumps in between. [/quote]

[b]Yes I live here and drive to/from work every day. "hard to speed?" hahahahahaha. Do you even live here? You're hilarious. Stop signs and traffic lights don't mean anything when drivers speed through them which happens every day on my drive. Maybe you live in some of the areas of the city with better roads and built in safety precautions? Even my 8 year old gets mad at the speeders on our tiny street. We can hear them fly through sometimes without even being outside it's so noisy.

I've never seen a DC police officer pull anyone over. I've even seen people run red lights in front of DC police and they do nothing.[/b] [/quote]

I think this person writes 95 percent of all the posts on DCUM dealing with bikes. They seem to be on DCUM 24 hours a day. I don't think they do anything else with their time. [/quote]

I think Nick D. writes all the posts complaining about kids and pedestrians. It generally sounds like one crotchety geezer. Fits his MO.[/quote]

Seriously, you seem a little (a lot) obsessive. Maybe find a hobby? You clearly have too much time on your hands. Also, none of us know who "Nick" is. [/quote]

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