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Bus Blocks Car After He Hits Cyclist (pg. 2)
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| exraver |
First of all,I'm just glad guy got up and nothing happened to him.
Imagine it was you, being hit by the car?
Second, not sure about rules there, but if it was me, I would've taken sidewalk, seeing as it was small bridge with tons of traffic.
Third, I can't wait till they implement here 3 feet (1 meter) rule:
you can't pass closer than 3 feet from a bike on the open road.
It's already done in Europe and same states.
Lots of lives saved, I'm pretty sure. |
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| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orko
But would you be willing to pay higher prices, for them to follow the law? |
THEY should be ticketed, just as motorists are
that can fund anything bike-related :) |
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| LightsOut |
| quote: | Originally posted by FunkyCrew
THEY should be ticketed, just as motorists are
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Agreed. Either they're on the road, or they're on the sidewalk. Whichever it is, they should follow the rules or get if a ticket if they choose to break them. |
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| FunkyCrew |
| quote: | Originally posted by LightsOut
Agreed. Either they're on the road, or they're on the sidewalk. Whichever it is, they should follow the rules or get if a ticket if they choose to break them. |
exactly! |
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| acronym |
| quote: | Originally posted by exraver
First of all,I'm just glad guy got up and nothing happened to him.
Imagine it was you, being hit by the car?
Second, not sure about rules there, but if it was me, I would've taken sidewalk, seeing as it was small bridge with tons of traffic.
Third, I can't wait till they implement here 3 feet (1 meter) rule:
you can't pass closer than 3 feet from a bike on the open road.
It's already done in Europe and same states.
Lots of lives saved, I'm pretty sure. |
Do they not have that here already? I was most certainly taught that in road safety training I was given for work. It was given by people whose job it is to provide road safety training, so I assumed they knew what they were talking about. |
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| Vivid Boy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Miss Pie
Well yeah, anyone in your peripheral vision is guaranteed to be safe. So considerate! |
zing!! |
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| mahalliner |
| quote: | Originally posted by chinamon
you're the type of cyclist that i would run over.
i consider a cyclist as a pedestrian because a bicycle is not a motorized vehicle. if a pedestrian must walk on the road then they should use the SIDE of the road and not in the middle of a lane. |
Thankfully for me, the law disagrees with you, as would a judge in the vehicular manslaughter case. |
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| chinamon |
| quote: | Originally posted by mahalliner
Thankfully for me, the law disagrees with you, as would a judge in the vehicular manslaughter case. |
really? looks like im going to jail then. |
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| Fin Finnegan |
| quote: | Originally posted by chinamon
really? looks like im going to jail then. |
Chinamon in a car in Chinatown. Yikes. |
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| chinamon |
| quote: | Originally posted by Fin Finnegan
Chinamon in a honda in Chinatown. Yikes. |
fixed |
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| The Highroller |
| quote: | Originally posted by FunkyCrew
THEY should be ticketed, just as motorists are
that can fund anything bike-related :) |
This is happening already. I was speaking to a police officer and he told me they are instructed to ticket cyclists the same way they ticket motorists.
| quote: | Originally posted by chinamon
you're the type of cyclist that i would run over.
i consider a cyclist as a pedestrian because a bicycle is not a motorized vehicle. if a pedestrian must walk on the road then they should use the SIDE of the road and not in the middle of a lane. |
I would love to see you use that argument in front of a judge as defense if you hit a cyclist.
It doesn't matter what you personally consider. In the eyes of the law, a bicycle is considered a vehicle, whether it is motorized or not.
Furthermore, cyclists have the right to take up a full lane if they are concerned for their safety (e.g. if the lane is too narrow).
This comes from my mother who is a CAN-BIKE (a City of Toronto administered cycling safety course) instructor in her free time. |
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| GGM |
Bikes belong on the road for sure but that being said reality is you have to accept the fact you share the same space as vehicles much larger and heavier than yourself. This guy was on a brutal road for biking (highway style with no shoulders, big dividers on each side and clearly a traffic speed faster than anything he could hit on his bike) and even if hugging the shoulder he shouldn't be on there. That's just dumb and he's lucky to be alive. Laws and how they protect you are all fun to talk about but that doesn't mean when you're sitting in a grave.
Dedicated bike lanes for sure, but when they're not around use your brain. People on motorcycles have realized this for a 100+ years and have acted accordingly but for some reason there's a chunk cyclists nowadays that think they have some sense of entitlement that will protect their life because they don't burn fuel. |
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