OTOH, when I had my car in Montreal, I got hit by a cyclist and had to pay $500 to repair my car. I had a lot of scary close calls with bikes that were 100% the cyclists' fault. And don't get me started on cyclists who ride on the sidewalks, through red lights, the wrong way on one-way streets, and on and on.
It would be great if more people biked but ONLY if cyclists get with the program and follow the rules of the road.
When I was a teenager I got this really cool Italian folding bike, it actually folded in half. Vintage. I loved it. I rode it for a couple months till one day a tire got stuck in a streetcar track and I catapaulted over the top of it. My best friend at the time, the girl who would end up having an affair with my bf (bitch!) laughed and laughed at me. I'll never forget that. I didn't get back on the bike :) Though I totally would if I was on some lone country road. Just not here. Not to mention every year I hear of a couple deaths. . .and of course accidents are crazy-common.
I think people SHOULD be able to ride bikes in the city, but as it is, no. I wish they'd just block some streets from cars, make parts of the city pedestrian and bike-only. Once in a while they talk about doing that :)
Yeah, but if you put pedestrians and bikes together, the bikes always win. At least in Montreal and NYC that's how it is, and it's just as bad as cars and bikes. It's a jungle out there.
On something else, that story you linked to about the economics writer who went broke has become a huge scandal:
Well it is illegal for bikes to be on sidewalks here, if they're over a certain wheel size. I forget what it is, but it is basically the difference between a kids bike and an adult bike. So the bikes would go on the street and the people would stay on the sidewalk. Though! Ideally I guess there would just be more bike lanes and people would actually stick to their own lanes.
Thanks for sharing that other link, going to read it when I have a few more mins.
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OTOH, when I had my car in Montreal, I got hit by a cyclist and had to pay $500 to repair my car. I had a lot of scary close calls with bikes that were 100% the cyclists' fault. And don't get me started on cyclists who ride on the sidewalks, through red lights, the wrong way on one-way streets, and on and on.
It would be great if more people biked but ONLY if cyclists get with the program and follow the rules of the road.
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I think people SHOULD be able to ride bikes in the city, but as it is, no. I wish they'd just block some streets from cars, make parts of the city pedestrian and bike-only. Once in a while they talk about doing that :)
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On something else, that story you linked to about the economics writer who went broke has become a huge scandal:
http://gawker.com/5267271/credit%20crunched-times-writer-edmund-andrews-responds-to-sketchiness-allegations
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Thanks for sharing that other link, going to read it when I have a few more mins.
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