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Tilted Cat Head
Administrator
Location: Manhattan, NY
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Maybe the Santa Monica Bike Path issue is a reflection on just how much people respect each other.
On Santa Monica's beachfront bike path, an uneasy mix - Los Angeles Times
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A woman is pushing a stroller, a teenager is on a skateboard, a man is walking a dog on a leash -- all of them idling along on a path that's marked BIKES ONLY -- and here comes a cyclist, closing in on this knot of nudniks. The cyclist slows, he weaves, he shoots past them and all are safe. But it doesn't always work out like that.
"It happened right here," Jon Louis Mann is telling me as he replays an accident that happened about a week ago. "I was heading south and there's a guy standing in the bike lane with a dog on a leash, and he's talking to another guy."
Mann swerved hard right, skidded and flopped down like a crash-test dummy on the sand, injuring his elbow, shoulder and back. He was so banged up, he couldn't get back on the bike. Before limping off to the doctor's office, he informed the dog walker that the bike path is for bikes and a separate pedestrian path is a mere 20 yards away.
So how'd that go over?
"He flipped me off," Mann says.
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