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Re: Slate Article: In Defense of Jaywalking
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Bob Shanteau
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Nov 05, 2009 00:55 PST
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Peter L. Jacobsen wrote:
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blamed for our injuries about as often...
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True. An anti-cycling bias exists just as surely as the anti-pedestrian
bias described in the article.
But bicyclists are legally operators of vehicles, not pedestrians, and
so operate by vehicular rules. There is one set of rules for operators
of vehicles and another for pedestrians. There is no third set for
bicyclists. Some argue that there should be, but I have yet to see a
concise, logical set of such rules. Informally, it seems to be that you
can do anything you want (run stop signs, run red lights, ride the wrong
way, ride at night without lights, ride a fixed gear without brakes, not
stop for pedestrians at crosswalks, etc.) as long as you "stay out of
the way of cars". But isn't it this behavior that causes most bicycle
crashes in the first place?
Bob Shanteau
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