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- From: rogerk@queernet.org (Roger B.A. Klorese)
- Newsgroups: ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Pushbuttons at crossings (was Signal Synchronization)
- Message-ID: <C18Lr7.9K5@queernet.org>
- Date: 22 Jan 93 03:59:30 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.012550.20393@adobe.com> <C16tzF.HDz@queernet.org> <1993Jan21.054030.20958@resonex.com>
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- Organization: QueerNet
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- In article <1993Jan21.054030.20958@resonex.com> frankm@resonex.com (Frank Muennemann) writes:
- >IMHO ANYONE who believes that motorists deserve more respect than
- >cyclists/pedestrians or that they deserve more convenience or govenment
- >resources (read "tax money") just because they own and operate private
- >automobiles has his head screwed on backwards. In too many respects,
- >motorists already get a free ride from the rest of us.
-
- I agree.
-
- >As a cyclist (and motorist!) who obeys traffic laws, I'm frankly pissed
- >off that Mr. Klorese thinks I have to convert cyclists to perfect
- >compliance with laws which were written to disadvantage them before
- >he'll even WORRY about my safety and convenence.
-
- It's not even the rolling stops I'm principally worried about. At least
- two out of three bicyclists I see make no attempt at stopping before
- making a right turn at a light or stop sign...
-
- I *am* worried about your safety and convenience, but *your* and *my*
- safety much more than your *or* my convenience. Anything that will make
- it more difficult for bicyclists to throw themselves, uninterrupted, into
- intersections is OK in my book. Because let's face it: in a confrontation
- between a bicyclist and a motorist, no matter who's write, the bicyclist is
- pizza.
- --
- ROGER B.A. KLORESE +1 415 ALL-ARFF
- rogerk@unpc.QueerNet.ORG {ames,decwrl,pyramid}!sgiblab!unpc!rogerk
- "Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when
- you fall, you fly." -- N. Gaiman
-