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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So the criminal lobby’s friend, Charles Allen, now wants to prevent DDOT from funding any safety improvements at all along Connecticut Ave. (like a raised crosswalk on Davenport and Connecticut so that Murch kids can walk more safely to school) UNLESS Allen gets his bike lanes.

Is Allen a bratty child or a public servant?![/quote]

Never mind, this is my favorite tantrum [/quote]
And when pedestrians die will you consider that a tantrum too?[/quote]

A cyclist nearly hit me walking across Utah Avenue in a crosswalk last week. He eyed me, thinking I would stop in the middle of the street for him and when I didn’t he swerved out of the way going probably 25 mph through the stop.

Cyclists are just as dangerous as cars in DC. They constantly run red lights on Connecticut. [/quote]

How many pedestrians have died as a result of cyclists in DC in the past 100 years? Like 2 or 3?

Now do cars.[/quote]
A cyclist just killed another cyclist. This is not a good talking point for you. [/quote]

yawn[/quote]I wish cyclists would realize that acting like jerks does not exactly make other commuters feel very sympathetic to their demands.[/quote]

I wish motorists would realize that acting like jerks by dismissing cycling as a "hobby" rather than a form of transportation and treating them like road chattel does not exactly make others feel very sympathetic to their demands.[/quote]

If it’s not a hobby, why do cyclists where costumes?

I don’t have a special outfit I wear when I drive or take the subway.

Don’t get me wrong. I think it’s amusing when overweight middle aged cyclists going eight miles an hour for, like, 20 minutes dress up like they’re in the Tour de France (good job burning all 75 of those calories!).

It seems evident that cyclists think of it as a hobby too. [/quote]

Its a bit of a catch-22. If cyclists dress like normal, then drivers complain they can't see them. If they wear hi-vis then they are playing dress-up for a hobby.

As a compromise cyclists can dress like normal people, and drivers can go back to driving vehicles with short, sloped hoods, that are low enough to the ground that they don't create gigantic blind spots. Drivers can also do away with the super dark tints and blinding lights/screens that ruin everyone's low-light vision.

Its asking a lot of drivers, but if that's what it takes to keep Lycra off the road...[/quote]

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