excerpt from that article....
"More bikes mean more accidents ---->
Experts welcome the trend for all of the reasons you might expect: Transportation planners like that fewer cars clog the nation’s highways. Environmental activists like that fewer tons of greenhouse emissions are pumped into the atmosphere every rush hour. Doctors like to see more people pedaling off more pounds.
But in the months since motorists began pedaling in droves, it has become clear that all those cyclists on the streets pose a significant problem: all those cyclists on the streets."
ingipet07.18.08 - 12:01 pm
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..and there was no evidence presented to show how there are more accidents. I guess it's just common knowledge that bikes are more dangerous than cars.
According to the US National Safety Council, for every million cyclists in the US, 16.5 die each year, whereas for every million motorists, 19.9 die each year.
http://www.cicle.org/cicle_content/pivot/entry.php?id=1511
thinkpeace07.18.08 - 12:13 pm
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Russell Weller should have plowed his tricycle through the farmer's market in Santa Monica, he then would have broken 9 arms instead of murdering 9 with his car.
Nuff said.
boogalooSHRIMP07.18.08 - 12:17 pm
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Does that statistic include tallbikes?
For every 16.5 tallbikes, there are 1 million units of F.U.N.
SPOOK07.18.08 - 12:18 pm
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another priceless excerpt from that article -->
Beware of newbies in the saddle
The problem is that so many new riders create road hazards because they don’t know the rules, police say. Too often, inexperienced riders take traffic signs as suggestions, not commands."
New riders also aren’t fully prepared for the inconveniences they can face — the worst one, experienced riders say, being drivers who also don’t know the rules or are too frustrated to observe them.
Bikers said they often struggled to blend safely with traffic. In the same video survey that found dangerous biking, Seminole County deputies also recorded a ***shocking level of rude and aggressive behavior by drivers.***
“It’s not their right to assault a cyclist or to run a cyclist off the road because they get impatient,” sheriff’s Lt. Pete Kelting said.
ingipet07.18.08 - 12:30 pm
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BOOGALOOSHRIMP, YOUR OH SO VERY RIGHT, NUFF SAID!
eddieboyinla07.18.08 - 12:31 pm
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Pam Fischer, director of the state Division of Highway Traffic Safety. “So far this year — and we’re at the middle of the summer, July 15 — we have already lost 11 bicyclists.”
Fischer said that “in almost every case, the bicycle was doing something that put them at significant risk.”
Me -
Something that put them at risk like riding next to cars? Like we have an alternative?
Also these people that are writing these accident reports, our local law enforcers, are they the same ones that don't know the vehicle code?
User107.18.08 - 12:54 pm
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FUCKIN ALLEN, YOUR SO SMART!
YOU AMAZE ME ALL THE TIME, AND YOUR RIGHT, 'ONE AND THE SAME.'
SEE YOU THIS WEEKEND? I HOPE SO, OK
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eddieboyinla07.18.08 - 1:36 pm
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Rad Link!
Thanks Ingapet.
I like how at the end the male reporter is scared to touch her "seat" and instead gives her a push on her back.
trickmilla07.19.08 - 11:19 am
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Ridazz Roulette!
