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[quote=Anonymous]The courting of bicycles has impacted travel as budding Lance Armstrongs misunderstand the rules of the road that are NOT in the past. This morning I was turning off 66 to take Key Bridge into Georgetown. There's an intersection at Lynn Street and 66 there where the Custis/Mount Vernon bike trail intersects. Across from me this day-glo cyclist was waiting at the light to go South towards the river, fuming because some car on the cross-street hadn't cleared the intersection when the light turned.

But the cyclist didn't realize that the rule isn't that time stops when a cyclist is ready to go. Rather, the car driver only needs to beat the yellow light into the intersection before it turns red. Then he gets the right to clear the intersection, and THEN the cyclist gets to go. Not before. Instead Lance screamed and got all huffy with the car who was waiting to get out of the way of the car traffic heading onto Lee Highway. It's that kind of entitlement that wasn't there before, people who ride bikes thinking they have special status rather than the obligation to stay out of the way of vehicles.[/quote]

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