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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's funny how very angry cyclists get when the shoe is on the other foot and we're the ones inconveniencing and commandeering the road.  [b]Don't dish it out if you can't take it.[/b]  Especially don't take it out when you're a rickety metal bike and the other people are in 3000 pound killing machines. [/quote]

Don't dish what out? It seems like a lot of drivers believe that people on bicycles are purposely bicycling specifically in order to complicate their (the drivers') lives. But that's not so. Just as drivers (I hope) are not purposely driving specifically to complicate bicyclists' lives. Particularly because drivers who do so can kill people.

I drive a car, I bicycle, I walk, and I take the bus. In all of these cases, I am not "commandeering" the road, I am using the road.[/quote]

Not doing it on purpose is not a significant defense when it comes to knowingly causing others significant inconvenience.  Parking your car in the middle of the road for a few minutes while your kid unloads, for example, is done for the sake of convenience and efficiency on your end.  Doesn't make it any less wrong to do it.

If you know that your actions are going to cause dozens of others to be late, to be stuck in traffic, to have their morning commutes essentially ruined... how could you possibly try to justify that?

Especially- and this isn't crucial to the argument, but it does add an extra layer- in a city like DC where there are so, so many bike paths, side streets, and ways to avoid taking the main thoroughfares. [/quote]

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