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Eric, I agree that the Post has a hard time differentiating between cars and drivers.

But, more to the point of this incident, bikers in the Washington area (certainly not all of them) have a hard time respecting pedestrians. In fact, if I was going to overgeneralize, bikers treat pedestrians here the way drivers treat bikers.

I say here, as I just spent a week in London. It had been nearly ten years since I was last there, and I was impressed with the explosion of bike riders and bike infrastructure. I was also impressed with how often bicyclists and auto drivers routinely stopped for pedestrians.

This incident is a tragic reminder that this is not the case in Washington. That's a far more important and immediate issue than GGW's (quite legitimate) beef with the Post and other major media outlets persistent refusal to acknowledge cars don't drive themselves.

by TimK on Nov 28, 2010 9:56 am • link • report