Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reflective gear is super important, but it gets dark at 5 PM now and some of us actually use bikes for transportation. "Stop doing your daily commute/errands" is not a reasonable ask any more than telling you not to drive after dark if you don't feel confident that you can see cyclists. We should wear brighter gear and more lights, and you should drive carefully and expect to share the road.

You can blame other people all you want (and we know cyclists love to blame everyone else for everything). But you'll be the person who's dead if a driver doesn't see you.

And you are the person with the $50 ticket and lifelong guilt.

Anonymous wrote:Please don't drive your car on busy , multi-use streets after dark if your vision has declined to where it is difficult to see bicyclists or pedestrians. It is an accident waiting to happen when you cannot see someone legally using a crosswalk at 5:30pm after work, or a bicyclist in the bike lane at 5:30pm after work. This is actually not meant to be snarky- many of us, as we age, suffer from reduced ability to see our surroundings in the dark and if this is you, you need to take some responsibility for yourself and not drive a 2 thousand pound vehicle at 30mph through intersections where you cannot see clearly. Use public transport, or walk.

Anonymous wrote:Hey - if you are a cyclist or pedestrian who wants to increase your visibility, I highly recommend these jackets: https://www.bikelaneuprising.com/product-page/reflective-windbreaker

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please don't drive your car on busy , multi-use streets after dark if your vision has declined to where it is difficult to see bicyclists or pedestrians. It is an accident waiting to happen when you cannot see someone legally using a crosswalk at 5:30pm after work, or a bicyclist in the bike lane at 5:30pm after work. This is actually not meant to be snarky- many of us, as we age, suffer from reduced ability to see our surroundings in the dark and if this is you, you need to take some responsibility for yourself and not drive a 2 thousand pound vehicle at 30mph through intersections where you cannot see clearly. Use public transport, or walk.

If you wear all black it has nothing to do with my eyesight. You cannot be seen.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please don't drive your car on busy , multi-use streets after dark if your vision has declined to where it is difficult to see bicyclists or pedestrians. It is an accident waiting to happen when you cannot see someone legally using a crosswalk at 5:30pm after work, or a bicyclist in the bike lane at 5:30pm after work. This is actually not meant to be snarky- many of us, as we age, suffer from reduced ability to see our surroundings in the dark and if this is you, you need to take some responsibility for yourself and not drive a 2 thousand pound vehicle at 30mph through intersections where you cannot see clearly. Use public transport, or walk.

If you wear all black it has nothing to do with my eyesight. You cannot be seen.

Anonymous wrote:Please don't drive your car on busy , multi-use streets after dark if your vision has declined to where it is difficult to see bicyclists or pedestrians. It is an accident waiting to happen when you cannot see someone legally using a crosswalk at 5:30pm after work, or a bicyclist in the bike lane at 5:30pm after work. This is actually not meant to be snarky- many of us, as we age, suffer from reduced ability to see our surroundings in the dark and if this is you, you need to take some responsibility for yourself and not drive a 2 thousand pound vehicle at 30mph through intersections where you cannot see clearly. Use public transport, or walk.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please don't drive your car on busy , multi-use streets after dark if your vision has declined to where it is difficult to see bicyclists or pedestrians. It is an accident waiting to happen when you cannot see someone legally using a crosswalk at 5:30pm after work, or a bicyclist in the bike lane at 5:30pm after work. This is actually not meant to be snarky- many of us, as we age, suffer from reduced ability to see our surroundings in the dark and if this is you, you need to take some responsibility for yourself and not drive a 2 thousand pound vehicle at 30mph through intersections where you cannot see clearly. Use public transport, or walk.

This is nonsense. Why is it that massive cars are obligated to use multiple types of lights so that they are visible, but pedestrians have no obligation to do anything to make themselves visible?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:State and federal standards address equipment on cars such as lights. There are DOT standards for minimum visibility for headlights, taillights, turn signals, etc.

The CPSC-required reflectors for bikes sold by retailers don’t provide enough safety for bikes at night. And many riders remove those reflectors anyway. And some riders don’t install lights at all, or use them in haphazard, non-standard ways.

There needs to be a rigid, vigorously enforced law for cyclists to have a minimum illumination, in a standard configuration, that can be recognizable from a safe distance and provide an immediate visual reference to the direction of travel of the bike - just like there is with cars.

Cyclists who don’t use lights should be warned/ticketed and then heavily fined for repeat offenses, just as the driver of a car would be for driving around in a car without working lights.

Bicycles should also be registered and tagged, with annual safety inspections for bicycles to make sure they have lights and are in working order, exactly how cars are administered now.

You'd think this would already be the law. There are basically no rules in D.C. on bicyclists though. They don't even have to wear helmets, which seems pretty incredible. Cyclists fight any sort of government regulations. They'd rather just blame drivers for everything.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please don't drive your car on busy , multi-use streets after dark if your vision has declined to where it is difficult to see bicyclists or pedestrians. It is an accident waiting to happen when you cannot see someone legally using a crosswalk at 5:30pm after work, or a bicyclist in the bike lane at 5:30pm after work. This is actually not meant to be snarky- many of us, as we age, suffer from reduced ability to see our surroundings in the dark and if this is you, you need to take some responsibility for yourself and not drive a 2 thousand pound vehicle at 30mph through intersections where you cannot see clearly. Use public transport, or walk.

This is nonsense. Why is it that massive cars are obligated to use multiple types of lights so that they are visible, but pedestrians have no obligation to do anything to make themselves visible?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:State and federal standards address equipment on cars such as lights. There are DOT standards for minimum visibility for headlights, taillights, turn signals, etc.

The CPSC-required reflectors for bikes sold by retailers don’t provide enough safety for bikes at night. And many riders remove those reflectors anyway. And some riders don’t install lights at all, or use them in haphazard, non-standard ways.

There needs to be a rigid, vigorously enforced law for cyclists to have a minimum illumination, in a standard configuration, that can be recognizable from a safe distance and provide an immediate visual reference to the direction of travel of the bike - just like there is with cars.

Cyclists who don’t use lights should be warned/ticketed and then heavily fined for repeat offenses, just as the driver of a car would be for driving around in a car without working lights.

Bicycles should also be registered and tagged, with annual safety inspections for bicycles to make sure they have lights and are in working order, exactly how cars are administered now.

And you are going to have a 5 year old get their bike registered?

Come on.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:State and federal standards address equipment on cars such as lights. There are DOT standards for minimum visibility for headlights, taillights, turn signals, etc.

The CPSC-required reflectors for bikes sold by retailers don’t provide enough safety for bikes at night. And many riders remove those reflectors anyway. And some riders don’t install lights at all, or use them in haphazard, non-standard ways.

There needs to be a rigid, vigorously enforced law for cyclists to have a minimum illumination, in a standard configuration, that can be recognizable from a safe distance and provide an immediate visual reference to the direction of travel of the bike - just like there is with cars.

Cyclists who don’t use lights should be warned/ticketed and then heavily fined for repeat offenses, just as the driver of a car would be for driving around in a car without working lights.

Bicycles should also be registered and tagged, with annual safety inspections for bicycles to make sure they have lights and are in working order, exactly how cars are administered now.

As if any cars owners are tickets for not having working lights.

And you are going to have a 5 year old get their bike registered?

Come on.

Anonymous wrote:Please don't drive your car on busy , multi-use streets after dark if your vision has declined to where it is difficult to see bicyclists or pedestrians. It is an accident waiting to happen when you cannot see someone legally using a crosswalk at 5:30pm after work, or a bicyclist in the bike lane at 5:30pm after work. This is actually not meant to be snarky- many of us, as we age, suffer from reduced ability to see our surroundings in the dark and if this is you, you need to take some responsibility for yourself and not drive a 2 thousand pound vehicle at 30mph through intersections where you cannot see clearly. Use public transport, or walk.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:State and federal standards address equipment on cars such as lights. There are DOT standards for minimum visibility for headlights, taillights, turn signals, etc.

The CPSC-required reflectors for bikes sold by retailers don’t provide enough safety for bikes at night. And many riders remove those reflectors anyway. And some riders don’t install lights at all, or use them in haphazard, non-standard ways.

There needs to be a rigid, vigorously enforced law for cyclists to have a minimum illumination, in a standard configuration, that can be recognizable from a safe distance and provide an immediate visual reference to the direction of travel of the bike - just like there is with cars.

Cyclists who don’t use lights should be warned/ticketed and then heavily fined for repeat offenses, just as the driver of a car would be for driving around in a car without working lights.

Bicycles should also be registered and tagged, with annual safety inspections for bicycles to make sure they have lights and are in working order, exactly how cars are administered now.

Yeah, let's have our police issue tickets for this kind of bs.

I'd rather have them go after the motorcyles who speed and the cars that have no mufflers/that backfire.