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Dear fellow commuter, please don’t be a jerk
Dear Fellow Commuter,
Yes, you. The guy with gray hair and black helmet riding a black bike with a khaki-colored backpack strapped to a rack.
You first passed me on Shoal Creek Boulevard, just south of Koenig Lane. I followed you along the Shoal Creek hike-and-bike trail and all the way down Lamar Boulevard near downtown.
Nice job blasting through three traffic lights and one stop sign.
You probably got to your destination a full minute faster than if you’d obeyed the law. And in the process, you ticked off a passel of motorists who will probably tell their friends how all cyclists ignore traffic laws.
Come on. Pay attention.
If you don’t care about obeying traffic laws for your own safety, at least do it for the rest of the biking public, who wants (and deserves) the respect of motorists.
Thank you,
Safety Pam
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By Stan Douglas
October 21, 2010 10:40 AM | Link to this
I still see a few cyclists blowing through red lights, but not as many as before. Most have gotten the message. I think the fine if you’re ticketed by a policeman is $205!
By Ridey Mike
October 21, 2010 3:25 PM | Link to this
I’ll stop at a stop sign if there is someone there waiting who has the right of way. I’ll stop at a red light and check for traffic. If there is none, I treat the red light as a stop sign.
Big deal.
But yes, there are some who don’t follow these red light running rules and tick people off. I assume those are the people you refer to in this blog.
By Maureen
October 26, 2010 12:24 PM | Link to this
YES. I see the same thing on my commute. And when I see someone blowing through the stop signs and red lights on Nueces, I think “YOU are the reason people show up at City Council infrastructure meetings and declare that no money should be allocated for bicycle facilities because bicyclists don’t follow the rules of the road. GOOD JOB, DINK.”