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- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!fritzs
- From: fritzs@microsoft.com (Fritz Sands)
- Subject: Re: Bike militancy (was Re: Parking)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.221322.28190@microsoft.com>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 22:13:22 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <Bz2zrL.5oM@unix.amherst.edu> <1992Dec11.103409.26173@reed.edu> <1992Dec11.171846.29892@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <1992Dec11.171846.29892@leland.Stanford.EDU> prufrock@leland.Stanford.EDU (Scot N Gibson) writes:
- | In article <1992Dec11.103409.26173@reed.edu> nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) writes:
- | >In article <Bz2zrL.5oM@unix.amherst.edu> twpierce@unix.amherst.edu (Tim Pierce) writes:
- | >>>I'm sufficiently militant on my bicycle now that I won't get out of
- | >>>the way of cars behind me unless it is convenient.
- | >>Dangerous or not, I always feel guilty doing this.
- | >
- | >Stop feeling guilty about it. Your taxes pay for the roads, too. Your
- | >safety needs are greater. And most cars treat you like shit, so you
- | >have to demand your space. No need to be rude, but don't risk wiping
- | >out at 25 mph because you felt like you had to pull off onto the
- | >gravel shoulder to let some stupid petrol-burning hunk of iron get past you.
- | >
- |
- | Yeah, I agree, but in the midst of all that bike militancy, don't
- | forget that you must obey traffic rules.
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- In most states, one of those traffic rules is that a vehicle -- whether
- bike, car, or truck -- must pull over at the next possible place and
- let traffic pass if the vehicle has a line of more than 'n' (in WA
- state, 5) vehicles stacked up behind.
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- Fritz
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