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How about this: no one person is more important than everyone else on the road.  When one commuter slows down the other hundred, that one's an asshole, whether it's a biker, jogger or pogo stick rider. [/quote]

Again, you are prioritizing car trips. Bicycle commuters and pedestrian commuters do not prevent car commuters from using the road, but car commuters do prevent bicycle and pedestrian commuters from using the road.

Meanwhile, when I'm driving, who's slowing me down is: other drivers. Please keep your car off the road when I'm driving on it. [/quote]

Pedestrian commuters were never meant to use the roads, what's with the stupid argument? They have sidewalks and crossroads.  Pedestrians aren't jogging in the middle of traffic demanding to have a whole lane to themselves. You're making a stupid argument that roads aren't designed for cars when it is patently obvious that they are. [/quote]

You must be new.  All they have is stupid arguments, which is why everyone leaves this thread utterly disgusted with the cyclists.  It's really kind of fascinating to watch them alienate each and every new person, one by one.  They've made it into an art. [/quote]

Road are designed by engineers in the fashion that politicians have directed them to and they can be designed in any number of ways.

It so happens that DC decided several years ago to try to safely accommodate users besides drivers on its roads - that means pedestrians, cyclists and transit users (buses and most recently the streetcar) and in the future it could mean carpool lanes too.

Similarly in MD & VA political decisions have been made about that - HOV lanes, soon lanes for transit and more and more bike lanes and many efforts to make roads safe for pedestrians too.

And the laws in all 3 jurisdictions to different extents protect the rights of pedestrians and bikers on roads.

So the enraged drivers on here who don't understand what is happening politically or what the laws are can bitch and complain all you want and unfortunately with the lax law enforcement in this area you also have a lot of leeway to be dangerous self entitled assholes behind the wheel but you are very much wrong about what is going on.[/quote]

All of which has zero to do with the actual issue, which is biking down a major artery that has not been signed to safely accommodate bikes at all.  [/quote]

Is that actually true?  The enraged MD Driver who started this thread didn't actually say that - I don't know because I rarely drive on River but both CT and WI across the line from DC in MOCO have signs that bikers can take the full lane which to me means it is properly signed.

I doubt the OP cares because he and his defenders are mostly enraged about the law and don't want to follow it but being mad doesn't make you right.[/quote]

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