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If we had bike lanes like that here I would definitely use it quite often. I'm slightly afraid to ride my bicycle on say Hwy 55 or Fayetteville Rd. People fly...
As long as those on bikes know that they still have the obey the traffic laws, I'm all for it. I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone on a bike just blow through a stop sign or red light like they had no idea they were supposed to stop. I don't think I've ever actually seen a responsible bike-rider following the rules. I'm all for more bike safety, both for the bike-riders and the car drivers!
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I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone on a bike just blow through a stop sign or red light ...
I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone driving a car just blow through a stop sign or red light ... and it scares the cr*p out of me.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone driving a car with a cell phone in one hand and a coffee in the other. Makes one wonder how they are steering!
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I don't think I've ever actually seen a responsible bike-rider following the rules.
Responsible bike-riders do follow the rules. You may have seen the irresponsible ones.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone driving a car just blow through a stop sign or red light ... and it scares the cr*p out of me.
I can't tell you how many times I've seen someone driving a car with a cell phone in one hand and a coffee in the other. Makes one wonder how they are steering!
Responsible bike-riders do follow the rules. You may have seen the irresponsible ones.
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There are a lot more people abusing the rules of the road on a bike than on a car.
Bikers want to "share the road" but don't want to share the rules. It's ridiculous. I'm glad you're being responsible, but there are a lot of people out there that think the rules don't apply to them.
I'm very careful around cyclists... several people in my family have been in serious accidents because motorists weren't paying attention... so it's not that I'm not sympathetic... but I TRY to be safe and make sure no one gets hurt and a lot of times the person on the bike makes it really nerve wracking.
I can count on one hand the number of times I've seen someone blow right through a stop sign in a car. I see people on bikes do it a lot.
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