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1 posted on 05/18/2010 12:56:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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A Youtube video has surfaced which allegedly shows an incident in January where a Miami-Dade transit bus mows down a cyclist on Biscayne Boulevard. The footage comes from the on board camera on the bus

It probably isn't "rage" from the bus driver directed at cyclists in particular. In Houston, Metro bus drivers routinely try to run cars out of their lanes. They regularly run red lights too and lately have been hitting our street grade rail line.

2 posted on 05/18/2010 12:58:22 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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The one thing I learned from cycling to work, those big metal things around you will kill you if they hit you. Give them right of way.

The woman was a smarmy idiot. I was always afraid of drivers like her.


3 posted on 05/18/2010 1:05:09 PM PDT by netmilsmom (I am inyenzi on the Religion Forum)
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If I were a cop I’d arrest her for attempted murder.


4 posted on 05/18/2010 1:06:00 PM PDT by WackySam (To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead.)
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Was the bicyclist a member of CriticalAss?


5 posted on 05/18/2010 1:06:01 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (DOH!!!!)
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Lessee, who here do I have less sympathy for? lol


6 posted on 05/18/2010 1:06:32 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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I'll stipulate that I'm a bike rider and run red lights when it is "safe" for me.

However, this does appear to be an accident. It's much safer to ride on the sidewalks in the city and take one's chances against the pedestrians, vs. heavy vehicles made of steel.

7 posted on 05/18/2010 1:06:37 PM PDT by Paladin2
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notice how the bus driver tries to convince the passengers what the cyclists did? She had it in for him from the beginning.....and a cyclist isn’t going to risk getting hit by a freaking bus......she couldn’t wait long enough to get through those lights....


8 posted on 05/18/2010 1:08:24 PM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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It’s always Whitey’s fault when the diverse crowd is behind the wheel!


11 posted on 05/18/2010 1:19:27 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (DOH!!!!)
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Of course Ive had thoughts of running them over too but just thoughts. The driver was clearly wrong. But as a public unionized scumbag she will probably just get a letter in her file. This is Miami after all.


12 posted on 05/18/2010 1:28:39 PM PDT by rrrod
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It is time for another beer summit.

That honkey should have known better! Whites go under the bus.

Isn’t ObamaLand so peaceful!


24 posted on 05/18/2010 2:05:41 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (Please God, watch over our country.)
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That cyclist was sure taking chances ,, running reds , passing the stopped bus at lights , riding out in front at speeds way to slow to be safe .. The roads are for motor vehicles , bicycles are allowed but this one was a hazard to navigation .. This is a large 6 lane high speed divided highway .. idiot. It would make more sense to ride on the sidewalk .. in hot locales (as you can see in the video) nobody walks. The bus driver was right , the bike impacted on the side of the bus, the bicyclist did hit the bus , the bus was traveling straight ahead.


31 posted on 05/18/2010 2:22:20 PM PDT by Neidermeyer
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Screw this bus driver. Never mind losing her license and job, she should be in jail.

That just pissed me off.


32 posted on 05/18/2010 2:23:52 PM PDT by rlmorel (We are traveling "The Road to Serfdom".)
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http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/05/lawsuit_bicyclist_hit_by_bus_i.php


42 posted on 05/18/2010 2:55:01 PM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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bttt


46 posted on 05/18/2010 3:03:07 PM PDT by petercooper (Ignorant Obama Voters: Happy Now?)
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To: nickcarraway; Berosus; AdmSmith; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
Dueling Green Transportation Technologies. Thanks nick.
"He came into this bus. I didn't hit him. He did that sh-- on purpose," the driver is overheard telling concerned passengers on the bus.

56 posted on 05/18/2010 6:12:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv ("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
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"I'm not nervous...WE WON!"
57 posted on 05/18/2010 7:13:56 PM PDT by Tainan (Cogito, ergo conservatus)
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