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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][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]

DP but [b]if motorists weren’t as deferential to cyclists[/b] as they are, there would be a lot more dead cyclists. For that matter, if pedestrians weren’t as deferential and o cyclists as they are, there would be a lot more dead pedestrians. As a group, cyclists are the worst behaved group of people on the road even though they get more grace than any other group of users. [/quote]

Where "deferential" means obeying traffic laws.

When I'm driving, I do my utmost to not hit anybody, including people on bikes, as required by law. When I'm bicycling or walking, I assume that drivers don't even see me, and far too often that is literally true. They don't see me because their heads are turned the wrong way, or they're staring at their phones, or their brains are only able to process motor vehicles. And right turns are the worst. I don't start walking when the walk light comes on, because I know that someone with a green light is going to turn, or maybe even someone who was turning right on red when the walk light came on. Guess who has the right of way when the walk light comes on? Not the driver.[/quote]

No, dude. It’s where deferential means stopping for you when you’ve run a red light. By a lot. Or swerving to avoid you after you’ve made an unsafe lane change to pass someone going more slowly than you. If you didn’t know that drivers almost always stop yield to you even when you’re in the wrong.

Pedwsteians have the right of way when the walk sign comes on. It would be great if cyclists knew that. [/quote]

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