Tom,
I agree with your point, but I don't think the letter was absurd.
There are too many careless bicyclists, and in this case sent a
pedestrian to the hospital.
Certainly that's not same as the thousands of tragedies caused by
motorists, many of them fatal, which you can read about every day in
your local paper.
Many, if not most of those incidents are caused by the kinds of
careless behavior you and I observe all the time, but somehow seem to
escape the attention of traffic cops.
I also agree that there is too much casual acceptance of these
behaviors, just because 'we all do it'.
That said, we shouldn't minimize the risk posed by careless bicyclists.
-darin
Quoting Thomas Bach <[email protected]>:
....
The letter in this morning's WSJ about the cyclist on the sidewalk
was, on some level absurd. Certainly the cyclist ought not have
ridden on the sidewalk, yet on my ride to MATC/Madison College I saw
4 cars run stop signs, uncountable number exceed the posted speed
limits, three cars roll through red lights to make right hand turns,
and one motorist who decided that the most sensible way to turn
left from Randall onto University was to run me off the road. I had
to pound on the side of the car to keep from being run over. And yet
rarely, if ever, do we read of the wanton criminality of motorists.
The double standard of calling out cyclists because of the behavior
of a few amongst us while remaining silent on the everyday law
breaking of motorists is really beneath contempt.
Tom Bach
?Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the
future of the human race.?
?H. G. Wells, 1904
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