Stumptown is a big biking town, so we get a lot of this kind of crap as well.
If I did half the shit in my car that I've seen on bikes, such as driving the wrong way down a one-way road, I'd have my license revoked.
Sheer physics says that a person on a bike is far more likely to come out the worse for wear in any accident with a car. The traffic laws ensure that we behave in a predictable manner with other cars and reduce the possibility of collision. So why people ignore both of these for some sort of freedom is a mystery to me. Freedom to be intensive care, perhaps.
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Date: 2007-05-07 03:26 pm (UTC)If I did half the shit in my car that I've seen on bikes, such as driving the wrong way down a one-way road, I'd have my license revoked.
Sheer physics says that a person on a bike is far more likely to come out the worse for wear in any accident with a car. The traffic laws ensure that we behave in a predictable manner with other cars and reduce the possibility of collision. So why people ignore both of these for some sort of freedom is a mystery to me. Freedom to be intensive care, perhaps.