Posted on 03/31/2022 11:39:21 AM PDT by Red Badger
and he should be suing the person who hit him. He was the one who was hurt.
Hope he has witnesses. He should get a lawyer and sue.
There are too many lights and signs. Just have cars go slowly through intersections.
Bicyclists, skateboarders, roller skaters, foot walkers . . .
So should pedestrians be insured?
Clog up the streets even worse than they are?
Most surface streets here are 20 to 30 MPH. You want folks driving SLOWER?
The guy on the bike pays a little bit of tax to use the road, but only through his accommodation while on his bike, as there is no provincial tax on his bike, or its parts.
The car driver is paying tax on the car, on the tires, on every other part, on the fuel, plus whatever taxes the bicyclist is paying.
Close to 95+ % of the vehicles on the road need to be in an artificially slowed traffic situation because some idiots don’t follow the rules of the road?
Do you see a slight disconnect from reality here?
>> Most surface streets here are 20 to 30 MPH
That’s between the lights and signs, where you go to 0, and then you sit they for 90 seconds or more. Just let people proceed with caution.
“Just let them proceed with caution”.
Most drivers DO proceed with caution. Then the Lance Armstrong wanna-be comes tearing out of the crossing street hell-bent for leather and t-bones the car.
As was said earlier, it’s rarely the car that breaks the rules. A bicyclist has ZERO protection, and is fully responsible for his own safety. If they follow the rules of the road, they are fine. It’s them running stop signs and lights, ignoring signals, crossing traffic willy-nilly, riding on sidewalks when convenient, and generally being pains in the patoot that is the cause of the vast majority of bicycle-automobile conflicts. We both know what vehicle is going to win that unfortunate scenario every time.
This incident is one of the rare occasions where the driver appears to be at fault. The other 99.9999% of the time it’s the other way around, and punishing all drivers for the moronic habits of certain cyclists is completely disproportionate and wrong.
Great idea. Maybe we could csll it a roundabout.
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