I can understand the message there and I too am a part time bicyclist with some of the same concerns with motorists. BUT there are a fair number of bicyclists that act as if they own the road and don't want to share with the autos. This includes those that ride two abreast, or right way left of the pavement edge. Remember, it's not as easy to squeeze your car and an on comming car past each other when you add a bike into the mix.
And (here's the argument part) it IS the motorists that pay for those roads with license fees and taxes on fuel.
Not defending rude motorists... but also not defending rude bicyclists
I believe that law is that, if there is not a bike lane or a shoulder (think: Fir road up here between McKinley and Cleveland, or Day Road, or Main, or Edison Lakes, or Edison, or Grape, you get my point) then bikes are allowed to take up the whole lane. If that's anybody's fault, it's the city's. And, no, I don't consider that jagged death trap mix of busted up (from plowing) concrete and loose gravel between the stripe and the ditch an adequate place to ride
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It's true, most of the money for roads does not come from vehicle registrations and such; it comes from income and sales taxes. Every tax payer has a share of the road.
And bikes have the legal status of other vehicles. A cyclist has the right to use the full lane, and to use it safely. A cyclist trying to cut it close and allow cars to squeeze by is not being safe.
For every dangerous and inconsiderate cyclist I've seen, I've seen hundreds of dangerous and inconsiderate drivers. And it's not a level playing field: the cyclist stands to lose so much more if there's an accident.
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I can understand the message there and I too am a part time bicyclist with some of the same concerns with motorists. BUT there are a fair number of bicyclists that act as if they own the road and don't want to share with the autos. This includes those that ride two abreast, or right way left of the pavement edge. Remember, it's not as easy to squeeze your car and an on comming car past each other when you add a bike into the mix.
And (here's the argument part) it IS the motorists that pay for those roads with license fees and taxes on fuel.
Not defending rude motorists... but also not defending rude bicyclists
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And bikes have the legal status of other vehicles. A cyclist has the right to use the full lane, and to use it safely. A cyclist trying to cut it close and allow cars to squeeze by is not being safe.
For every dangerous and inconsiderate cyclist I've seen, I've seen hundreds of dangerous and inconsiderate drivers. And it's not a level playing field: the cyclist stands to lose so much more if there's an accident.
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