[lbo-talk] Bad Bicycling

[Maria Gilmore]

Since bicyclists are so vulnerable in traffic, it's always been a mystery  
to me why so many of them flout traffic laws.  What I *really* hate is  
people who ride their bikes on the sidewalk, truly endangering anyone who  
can't get out of their way fast enough, like kids and old people; besides,  
as a ped, why should I have to scurry out of the way of some idiot on a  
bike? By law, bike riders are supposed to stick to the roads.

I don't want to be insensitive to the perils of bike riding in traffic;  
like I said, cyclists are extremely vulnerable and more than a few  
motorists are as idiotic regarding bikers as some bikers are about peds.   
I recognize the good things about cycling, and there are many.  But  
ignoring traffic laws is *not* the way to go, it only makes matters worse.

Maria