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Originally Posted by Jinn
Big, fast moving things have had the 'right of way' since the beginning of time. It has nothing to esoteric deconstructions of society or our materialistic association with manufactured materials.
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that isn't true. Since rules started to be imposed on navigation, smaller boats have had the right away, and sailboats also have the right of way. Now that isn't to say that it's not moronic for a guy in a sailboat to dash in front of a tanker and drop anchor, any more than it is to say that bicyclists who dart in front of cars aren't idiots.
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It has to do with me traveling 60 miles per hour, 88 feet per second, with a stopping distance over three hundred feet and bicycles who think that they are somehow legally entitled to travel on the same thoroughfare.
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They think they're legally entitled to travel on the road because they /are/ legally entitled to travel on the road. The caveat to that is that bicycles must obey traffic laws, and we all know that many of them don't. They run stop signs, they cut across lanes without signaling, they ride on the wrong side of the road, they ride on the /sidewalk/ on the wrong side of the road, and they ride on the road even if there's a perfectly good bike path right next to it.
It really is a two way (heh heh) street. Motorists are jackasses for crowding and intimidating bicyclists, and bicyclists are jackasses for impeding the flow of traffic and thinking that traffic laws don't apply to them. We really need some cops out there writing tickets for those problems, rather than worrying about someone going 10 over on the interstate.