Posted on 05/27/2004 3:46:51 PM PDT by Willie Green
They appeared late Monday around Allegheny County, 14 bicycles painted a ghostly white and chained to poles with a cryptic sign: "Cyclist Struck Here."
The roadside memorials are the work of Ghost Bike Pittsburgh, a loosely organized group of bicycle enthusiasts seeking to improve the lot of bicyclists in a sometimes hostile world.
"That's all we're going for, is for people to know that cyclists have been hit," group member Brad Quartuccio, 22, of Bloomfield, said yesterday. "Some people have lots of respect. The problem is, it only takes one motorist to have no respect."
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Yes, because we all know that cyclists always follow the law and never make mistakes.
Seen a couple of those here, too. It's almost always the bicyclists fault even though the motorist could have avoided the accident if his mind were on his driving.
I KNEW it would only take a couple of moments for a non-cyclist to get defensive and turn this into a debate about how cyclists run stop signs and stop lights. Only moments...
They should be taken off our roads - and restricted to velodoromes.
Their owners could ride them there and then leave them there.
Prevent bike violence - Support common sense Bike Control.
Here in CA many drive me nuts. They scream through traffic by centerlining. You don't even see them till they are past you.
Well, if the bicyclist is killed and the motorist survives, there's only one witness. It's not hard to guess what kind of story he'll tell.
Improper use of enclitic conjunction and implied question head.
There are 200 bicycle/car incidents a year in this town. It's hard to judge which is paying less attention, but the car usually wins.
Well, they do. I see it all the time. If cyclists want to be treated like cars, they need to reciprocate and ride like they're cars.
If you're that interested in correcting my grammar then I can probably present you with plenty of homework. Otherwise, I repeat the orginal question.
Most collisions have witnesses since there is heavy traffic most of the time.
I don't understand cyclists thinking man's laws will protect them from flirting with violations of the laws of physics.
If cyclists rode like they were cars then they'd be in the middle of the street, pi$$ing off all of the angry motorists who encounter them.
Bicyclists have the same respect for traffic laws.
Cyclists know "man's laws" aren't protecting them from anything. What was the point of that sentiment again?
They do, but the newcomers lose their nerve after about a day. Attitude loses to 9000 pound dually every time.
If cars drove like cyclists we'd have ten-car pileups in every intersection.
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