I biked to class 4 days this week (Monday I had a sinus headache and chose to bus it) for about 60 miles total distance. Beautiful fall weather this week; wonderful time to be out on a bike. A long-sleeved t-shirt and shorts are perfect at 7C.
I've noticed a disturbing driver behaviour. Drivers approaching a stop sign seem to ignore their left and look to the right. Eventually they look left. They do this even when they want to turn right. While that would make sense in places where they drive on the wrong side of the road, in places where we drive on the right side of the road, it's just plain scary.
It's amazing the things you see when you travel at 12 miles an hour vs 35 miles an hour. If I was seeing things correctly, I saw milk actually being delivered to a residence! I haven't seen that in decades.
I'm not in as good shape as I'd thought I was. By Friday, my legs were pretty well worn out. Thankfully (no pun intended) we have a long weekend.
Sat, 11 Oct 2003 14:36:16 -0500, <[email hidden]>, "Jeff" <[email hidden]> wrote, in part:
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I've noticed a disturbing driver behaviour. Drivers approaching a stop sign seem to ignore their left and look to the right. Eventually they look left. They do this even when they want to turn right.
Drivers are primarily looking for traffic to which they must yield instead of their usual rolling stop. They're assuming you will respect 'their' right-of-way.
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It's amazing the things you see when you travel at 12 miles an hour vs 35 miles an hour.
It also leads to finding interesting, sometimes valuable, or at least, useful items along the way. -- zk
I've noticed a disturbing driver behaviour. Drivers approaching a stop sign seem to ignore their left and look to the right. Eventually they look left. They do this even when they want to turn right. While that would make sense in places where they drive on the wrong side of the road, in places where we drive on the right side of the road, it's just plain scary.
You'll notice more. This is one I notice frequently, though. And being the defensive cyclist that I am I will stop in the middle of the bike lane, right before I get to them and wait for them to look left. It pisses them off a lot of the time, but hey, they should be looking left and actually stopping their vehicle before reaching the stop sign. So maybe I inconvenience them for a moment or two. Hopefully they'll learn to pay attention.
