Jim Cathey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Last time I checked here, a bicycle _is_ a car so far as the law is > concerned. You treat them like such, and you ride them like such. > > And it stinks, last time I was forced to (single, and having my > truck worked on at at shop that wasn't particularly close to work) > ride on city streets some asshole in a new Hummer (pre-H2) nearly > clipped me as he roared past me on the left in the turn lane. (I > was preparing to make my turn to the left.) Totally a ticketable > offense, but where's a cop when you need him?
I sympathize, though here in this college town it's the bicycles and pedestrians who don't pay attention. How many times have I had to stand on the brakes to avoid clobbering some ipod-wearing, text-message-absorbed student who simply crosses the street without so much as a glance to the side. Or the bicyclists who pass a line of cars on the right, run a stop sign, and then flip you the finger when you give them a little "heads up" beep on the horn. Allan -- 1983 300D 1966 230
