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There is a K St NW in G'town and I am sitting in an Office at that address right now.

I said that "cyclists adopt a knee-jerk "I'm not at fault" attitude" and you responded that "in many cases cyclists know that what they're doing is safe and polite but illegal only because of bad laws"

Excuse me, but doesnt that make my point about knee-jerk responses?

I AGREE that the current laws are stupid, but failing to obey the law is still still disobeying the law, irrespective of the wisdom of the law. I also agree that we should have a more flexible approach to the law considering safety etc, but the safety argument doesnt hold on that part of K-St: the traffic is slow, there are a lot of pedestrians. When I see cyclists going straight through a cross walk with kids, or making no effort to slow when approaching a stop sign to yield to a car making a legal left turn (happens EVERY DAY), it looks bad.

by SJE on Jun 8, 2012 4:38 pm • link • report

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