Posted on 08/11/2011 1:06:32 PM PDT by SmithL
A woman who was badly injured when she was struck by a bicyclist in a crosswalk at Mission Street and The Embarcadero last month died this morning, San Francisco police said.
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STOP THE SENSELESS SLAUGHTER!
A hunch says Savage will mention this.
How many more must die before we ban bicycles, Mr. Newsom?!
But, I thought plastic bags were bad?
Savage was almost run over by a bicyclist last fall. He ranted about it for the better part of a week. No doubt in my mind he’s going to tee off on this one.
Too many cyclists everywhere thing that the rules of the road don’t really apply to them.
Was this part of one of those “Critical Mass” actions?
That was last year’s cause.
>>>The bicyclist was questioned at the scene before being released. <<<
He runs a red light, kills a woman and they let him walk free?
Cyclists should be held to the same standard as motorists. He should be doing 5 to 10 years for manslaughter.
I have to stop spewing hate or something....
Too many bicyclists in Berlin are completely insane. They are willing to drive straight into you just to make a point and they don’t care if you are unloading bags from a cab, handling a baby, or whatever.
I would never live on a street with a bicycle lane ever again.
How to handle ‘Critical Mass’ bicyclers, My experience at Bio 2004:
After moving less than half a block in 20 minutes (one block away from from Moscone), a bunch of bicyclists started riding between the cars, leader with a bull horn, shouting something about taking over the streets.
He had the horn pointed back wards so I didn’t hear him coming. Durn! he got away!
However, I popped my door open in front of the third or so cyclist in the string. (I did look first to make sure he had room to stop).
He screams “You effin’ clymer!!!” (OK, I cleaned it up a little, so sue me...)
I looked up smiled sweetly and said “That makes two of us...”
Totally messed them up. They had to stop and regroup. His buds split leaving him with two young “ladies” to protect him from the mean man in the car. Boo fricking hoo
I closed the door and he started to pass by and continued to berate me. When he was adjacent to the door I popped it open at him, not to hit him, but to persuade him to move along.
He darn near fell off his bike trying to dodge me.
“We’re going to call 911!!!”
“Don’t bother, I’ll call for you” which I did. (The line was busy)
He and the two chicks decided that it was past their collective bedtimes or something and split.
Felt GOOD...
So should a bicyclist.
Unequal protection under that law is a recipe for anarchy, like they're seeing in jolly old England.
90% of cyclists in NYC ALWAYS ride like they are in a Critical Mass action, even when they are alone.
For every car I see run a red light in NYC, I see 100 bicycles run a red light. 99.9% of automobiles stop for red lights, about 10% of bicycles stop.
Several people are killed every year by bicyclists in New York City. Either the cyclists are on the street disobeying things like stop signs and lights, or they’re taking the “short cut” along the sidewalks.
Theoretically, all these things are illegal, and I think the city did actually put out a special unit dedicated to stopping these things, but bicyclists are very hard to catch. They do manage to cite some of them, so maybe that has helped.
A bicyclist was in a road race and blew through a stop sign, just as I was making a right hand turn...
in my motor home.
RIP.
I have seen several get their bells rung real good in NYC, people opening car doors as they weave through traffic and zoom along the parked cars, not in the bike lanes, as though they are the only one on the street...
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