Amen... On Dec 12, 9:49 am, Justin August <[email protected]> wrote: > Last night I dropped off my significant other at her end-of-the- > accelerated nursing program party on the University of Penn's campus > in Philly.I pulled over into the dropoff lane (a real lane) and let > her out. as I was about to pull out, I look into my sideview mirror to > check if everything's clear, see nothing, start to go then SLAM on the > brakes. In all of that nothing there was a cyclist. Riding a black > bike. With black pants, black hoodie, black basket, black bag, black > hat, black scarf and black helmet. The only bit of illumination this > rider had in a crowded urban area with tons of traffic was an anemic > RED blinky on the front of their bike that had all of the illumination > output to make me think the batteries needed changed 3 years ago. As a > multimodal commuter in Philly - I live in West Philly and ride or > drive to my job teaching 2nd graders 3 miles away in deeper West > Philly - I am constantly astonished at how many folks on bikes are not > lit up. It's incredibly irresponsible to do so. The cyclist last night > could have been killed, easily, by myself or several other drivers. > Who's fault would it have been? The driver dutifully checking their > mirrors or the cyclist riding in all black at night without adequate > illumination? > > Frustrating. > > On Dec 11, 10:22 pm, erik jensen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > my point was intended to question the notions floating in this thread about > > right/wrong, intentional/accidental that seem grounded in a sort of strange > > sort of positivism grown from tired traffic laws based in patently false > > traffic engineering theory. > > > i don't own a car, and i think most don't need to, but i am not > > "car-bagging" with that comment. it's easy enough to demonstrably show the > > ethics behind mode choice, and easy enough to ignore or justify action > > beyond the demands of science. > > > at the end of the day, i think: go drive a bike for awhile, it'll help. > > > erik > > > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Steve Palincsar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 18:55 -0800, newenglandbike wrote: > > > > "motorists are always putting everyone else in harms way, diminishing > > > > quality of life, contributing to health problems and increased > > > > mortality, making everyone subsidize their actions through state and > > > > federal taxes, necessitating wars in foreign countries for oil field > > > > security, impelling oil-spill catastrophes in the seas, encouraging > > > > rampant urban-sprawl development policies, contributing heavily to > > > > localized air pollution, decreasing agricultural yields, reducing > > > > atmospheric visibility, aggravating global climate instability, > > > > creating noise pollution, and leaving behind 7 billion pounds of > > > > unrecycled scrap annually, without consideration at all for their > > > > actions." > > > > Enough already. This list is not supposed to be about car-hating. > > > There are other places for those sentiments. Take it over there, > > > please. > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > [email protected]<rbw-owners-bunch%2Bunsubscrib > > > [email protected]> > > > . > > > For more options, visit this group at > > >http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en. > > > -- > > oakland, ca > > bikenoir.blogspot.com
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