Wow! Share the Road PSA!

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Had to turn cager Monday morning, but it wasn't all bad. As I headed
off to work the car radio played a PSA that used the phrase "share the
road." It went on to point out that under a newly passed Utah law, cars
are required to slow down when passing a bike and give it it three feet of
clearance (Thank you Josie Johnson, may you rest in peace). And, it
added, bicyclists are required to obey all traffic laws, including (gasp!)
riding on the right side of the road.
I know it's just one drop of water in the desert of driving and cycling
ignorance, and it ran at 4:45 a.m., but it was still nice to hear it.

Good stuff! Share the road, it's common sense.

I just got back from a light grocery trip with my messenger bag. Going
down a hill where at the end I needed to turn left into a 2nd store,
and the limit was 30mph, and I was cranking a 53x16 at the speed
limit--a car behind me decided it was appropriate to honk...and
honk...and hoooooooooonk. When I'm going the speed limit, I'll take the
entire lane, thankyouverymuch. Especially when I need to take a left
turn soon. What a Bar Steward.

Would love such PSA's being played around here to avoid such agression.
Of course I yield to the right when I can't keep up. :-D

I have mixed feelings about all these laws on the books. Wouldn't it
be better to get some prime time publicity with a cyclist on the air,
talking about "Sharing the Road", than passing some Legislation that
nobody will pay attention to.
Jim Gagnepain
http://home.comcast.net/~oil_free_and_happy/

I'd rather have a bicyclists OWN the Road psa.

Wayne

Wayne Pein said:

I'd rather have a bicyclists OWN the Road psa.

And how's this make you any different then the cagers that think they
own the road?

In article <[email hidden]>,

Rich said:

Wayne Pein said:

I'd rather have a bicyclists OWN the Road psa.

And how's this make you any different then the cagers that think they
own the road?

Maybe it doesn't.

Maybe that's the point.

cheers,
Tom

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Rich said:

Wayne Pein said:

I'd rather have a bicyclists OWN the Road psa.

And how's this make you any different then the cagers that think they
own the road?

2 tons.

landotter said:

Rich said:

Wayne Pein said:

I'd rather have a bicyclists OWN the Road psa.

And how's this make you any different then the cagers that think they
own the road?

2 tons.

OT... this is a true pedestrian vs obnoxious cager story.

A couple of weeks ago I was walking home when I crossed a street at the
pedestrian signal. However, that signal changes really fast, so I
hurried and it had changed to the flashing red hand. Just before I got
to the curb, I was nearly clipped by this impatient driver who couldn't
wait another second to turn right. I yelled at him sometihng like YOU
IDIOT! I continued walking and then heard a voice behind me. "Excuse
me! Do you know what that signal is for??" I turned around and the
driver, a guy in his late 50s or therabouts, had gotten OUT OF HIS CAR,
while other cars waited behind him, honking and yelling. I coudln't
believe it! He yelled at me again, "Do you know what that signal is
for???" Yeah, it's the signal to run over pedestrians... anywyas, i just
shook my head in disbelief and walked on. Obviously he's wack. I heard
him yell something else but couldn't make out what it was. When i turned
around, I saw him standing next to one of the cars that he'd blocked,
arguing with the driver and other drivers were furiously going around him.

What a lunatic! I know the signal had changed but that doesn't mean you
should run me over like a squished squirrel. He's [censored] because I
didn't let him run over me... What if I'd been a woman pushing a baby
carriage or an old lady? I hate to imagine. Actually, an old lady was
injured at an intersection not too far from here- the guy kept going and
they found his car, though.

Tom Keats said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Rich said:

Wayne Pein said:

I'd rather have a bicyclists OWN the Road psa.

And how's this make you any different then the cagers that think they
own the road?

Maybe it doesn't.

Maybe that's the point.

cheers,
Tom

Bingo!

Wayne

Marlene Blanshay said:

... I hurried and it had changed to the flashing red hand. Just before I [walked]
to the curb, I was nearly clipped by this impatient driver who couldn't
wait another second to turn right. ... I turned around and the
driver, a guy in his late 50s or therabouts, had gotten OUT OF HIS CAR,
while other cars waited behind him, honking and yelling. I coudln't
believe it! He yelled at me again, "Do you know what that signal is
for???" Yeah, it's the signal to run over pedestrians...

As long as we're off-topic: A few months ago, I started walking across
a street at the edge of the university campus, going with the green
"walk" light. An impatient ditz was wanting to turn left, and when her
light went green (simultaneously with my "walk" signal) she blasted
forward straight toward me. It may have been foolish, but rather than
jump out of her way, I stopped in front of her as she slammed on the
brakes. I just shook my head at her, in wonderment at her stupidity,
then started walking again.

She roared past as soon as she could, literally missing me by inches...

.... but not my briefcase. I swung it at her car as she skimmed past,
hitting the left rear fender.

She squealed to a stop and began screaming at me. But the guy in the
car behind her rolled down his window and said to me "you were
absolutely right. There's even a sign that says 'Yield to
pedestrians.'"

So, not everyone in a tin box is irresponsible. Just some of them.

- Frank Krygowski

Quoted message said:

Marlene Blanshay said:

... I hurried and it had changed to the flashing red hand. Just before I [walked]
to the curb, I was nearly clipped by this impatient driver who couldn't
wait another second to turn right. ... I turned around and the
driver, a guy in his late 50s or therabouts, had gotten OUT OF HIS CAR,
while other cars waited behind him, honking and yelling. I coudln't
believe it! He yelled at me again, "Do you know what that signal is
for???" Yeah, it's the signal to run over pedestrians...

As long as we're off-topic: A few months ago, I started walking across
a street at the edge of the university campus, going with the green
"walk" light. An impatient ditz was wanting to turn left, and when her
light went green (simultaneously with my "walk" signal) she blasted
forward straight toward me. It may have been foolish, but rather than
jump out of her way, I stopped in front of her as she slammed on the
brakes. I just shook my head at her, in wonderment at her stupidity,
then started walking again.

She roared past as soon as she could, literally missing me by inches...

... but not my briefcase. I swung it at her car as she skimmed past,
hitting the left rear fender.

She squealed to a stop and began screaming at me. But the guy in the
car behind her rolled down his window and said to me "you were
absolutely right. There's even a sign that says 'Yield to
pedestrians.'"

So, not everyone in a tin box is irresponsible. Just some of them.

- Frank Krygowski

I remember once I saw this ditz go through a stop sign. SHe barely even
slowed down and then turned right. Her window was open and as I crossed
the street, I called out, "DId you even look at the stop sign before you
went through it?" She just looked at me as if I'd puked.

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She roared past as soon as she could, literally missing me by inches...

... but not my briefcase. I swung it at her car as she skimmed past,
hitting the left rear fender.

She squealed to a stop and began screaming at me.

Lady in an Escalade similarly clipped me while I was walking into the
grocery, so I flat palmed the side of her car to make some noise and
wake her from dreamworld. Of course, I was confronted by police
officers when I finished my shopping, that told me I could be arrested
for assaulting the woman. Poor wittle Escalade. Oh dear.

Marlene Blanshay said:

What a lunatic! I know the signal had changed but that doesn't mean you
should run me over like a squished squirrel. He's [censored] because I
didn't let him run over me... What if I'd been a woman pushing a baby
carriage or an old lady? I hate to imagine. Actually, an old lady was
injured at an intersection not too far from here- the guy kept going and
they found his car, though.

He clearly couldn't have been in a hurry if he was willing to argue
with you (and everyone else around him apparently).

I think there's a power issue involved as well.

Saw it just last night going out to eat with some friends and
family in downtown Northampton, which has a good record of vehicles
stopping for pedestrians in crosswalks (the pedestrians themselves
can be quite aggressive!).

Someone in a crosswalk was lecturing someone in a car for not
stopping sufficiently soon enough while they crossed the street.

The motorist *did* stop, but apparently not to the standards
demanded by the pedestrian. Stood in the walkway lecturing the
motorist while traffic piled up behind. Didn't give a hoot.

It was a crosswalk, not a deck or porch! Cross the danged street!

SMH