Re: bicycle road rage

"Peter Jason" <pj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "The Raven" <swilson150@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> "F Murtz" <haggisz@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> If an idiot in a  car changes lane in front of bicycles and then 
>>>> suddenly brakes are the bicycles that run into him liable for the 
>>>> damage to his car? Usually the vehicle in the rear is at fault.
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>>> Considering the car was in a bicycle lane I think the drivers ****ed 
>>> dont you?
>> Cars are allowed in bicycle lanes under certain conditions. If bicycle 
>> lanes are solely for the use of bicycle riders they should be paying 
>> registration fees etc.
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> They should be paying rego & 3rd party fees anyway, assuming they will
be 
> injured on the roads.   Why should these candy-coloured pests be any 
> different from other road users?

**They are no different to other road users. Drivers should avoid hitting 
them.

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> Were all the 20 cyclists in the bike lane? Not bloody likely.  Indeed
they 
> often ride two abreast, overflowing the bike lane, to talk to each
other.

**Unlikely, in this case. The bike lane is generously large.

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> The incident probably went like this:
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> 1/  Some of the 20 cyclists overflowed the bike lane, so causing 
> obstruction to motorists.

**Wrong. Cyclists are entitled to use the road, UNLESS they are
specifically 
disallowed from doing so (on a motorway, for instance). YOU are precisely 
what is wrong with many road users. Cyclists are road users and need to be

treated as such.

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> 2/  A motorist became enraged, as well he might.

**And that motorist should be stripped of his or her right to drive.

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> 3/  Motorist taught them a lesson.
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> Way to go!!

******wit. You are demented.


Trevor Wilson