[wplug] OT: Risk management (helmet laws)

[Burt E Reany]

   Will the "Bikes belong only in the street" opinion  continue when your
daugter turns seven and starts riding? Real "pedalcycles" do belong in the
street - and have an experienced rider.  I promulgate the concept that kids
just learning SHOULD be learning  on the playground or on the sidewalk;
that a responsible society would put a law in place outlawing riding bikes
on the sidewalk, and that  the socially-concious, responsible adults who
enforce that law will have the intelligence to NOT force incompetent,
sidewalk-riding younger children to "go out and play in the traffic".


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Yeah and many of said bicyclists won' even beep or ring a bell or even
have the common courtesy to say "excuse me" or "coming through", and
as a pedestrian I'm damn sick of it ! So many times I've almost been
run into or not knocked into by some fool kid riding their bike on the
sidewalk. Time to start clotheslining people!
Bicycling on the sidewalk is breaking the law, period. But I've seen
cops drive by as it happens and they could care less.

Zach

On 6/13/06, Doug Green <diego96 at mac.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> That's such a Pittsburgh Comment that I don't even know where to start.
How
> about with the fact that THEY HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY?? Consider you and
your
> car a guest on HIS street. Bicyclists in THIS CITY use the sidewalk
because
> it's UNSAFE to drive on a road with no bike lane. I agree that running a
red
> is just pain stupid.
>
> This is one of the most "bicycle unfriendly" cities in the US. Weather
> aside, road conditions aside, lack of bicycle lanes aside, the drivers
here
> just plain suck. I don't fault a guy on a bicycle to do whatever he needs
to
> do to be safe in this town.
>
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