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>>Any thoughts on who he voted for?<<

Great minds think alike.

I used to use the burk-gillman trail all the time in Seattle. It is a trail for walking, families, bicyclists, you name it. I am an avid cyclist and find that the speed limits are too limiting on most trails. But to suggest that the twerp did not have a right to be on the trail is not just absurd. It borders on narcissism. When I travel fast on such trails, I am always aware that a kid I am passing could look back at mom and dad and simultaneously turn right across the path. And if I hit them it is MY fault.

If I want to go fast, I don’t use such trails.

I used to do a lot of in-line speed skate training on a popular bike path here in S.E. Michigan so I can relate to this guy. My biggest obstacle was people on this particular path who never gave a thought to observing the same rights of way as drivers on the highway. In other words, they were all over the path instead of staying on the right.

They would have kids with them on trikes and bikes who had no comprehension of safety and no parents herding them to the right side of the path for safety sake.

I would be approaching them from behind and yell out “on your left” and the kids, not knowing what the hell that meant, would remain on the left side of the path which left me no alternative but to bail out on the grass to avoid hitting them. Keep in mind that in-line-skates do not run on grass.

I’ve had a-holes on road bikes and mountain bikes run me off the path because they refused to grant me the right of way when they could just as easy veer off the path onto the grass then continue on and ultimately, when I was really pissed off, I would run them down then grab their bike seat from behind and give it a jerk while admonishing them about their obligation to follow the rules of the road.

In-line skaters do not have the freedom of skating on grass nor do they have the luxury of brakes. I gave up my speed skating training only because no matter how defensive I became in my skating, it was not enough to avoid the total ignorance of safety by the other users of the trail..........