open letter to a NY STATE SENATOR
09-18-08, 04:47 PM
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open letter to a NY STATE SENATOR
dont know if this made it here-
https://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/...en-letter.html
apparently our elected officials worry more about your hands prints on the windows of their mercedes than your life being squashed out of you between two cars...
https://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/...en-letter.html
apparently our elected officials worry more about your hands prints on the windows of their mercedes than your life being squashed out of you between two cars...
09-18-08, 04:58 PM
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Meh. After reading it, I couldn't really care less honestly.
He was riding in someone's blind spot between the curb and a car in the same lane. And he's surprised he almost got hit? Shocking.
I'd feel for him 100% if he was following the laws and THEN almost got hit. Of course the senator could have reacted less drastically and didn't need to threaten him... but still.
He was riding in someone's blind spot between the curb and a car in the same lane. And he's surprised he almost got hit? Shocking.
I'd feel for him 100% if he was following the laws and THEN almost got hit. Of course the senator could have reacted less drastically and didn't need to threaten him... but still.
Originally Posted by some bike rider guy
Traffic was moving rather slowly and you were heading in the downtown direction, as was I. You were in the far left lane and I was riding on the curbside of that lane, near your rear passenger door. Suddenly, you began to veer your Mercedes to the left, potentially crushing me between your car and the cars parked on the side of the road.
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09-18-08, 05:26 PM
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Meh. After reading it, I couldn't really care less honestly.
He was riding in someone's blind spot between the curb and a car in the same lane. And he's surprised he almost got hit? Shocking.
I'd feel for him 100% if he was following the laws and THEN almost got hit. Of course the senator could have reacted less drastically and didn't need to threaten him... but still.
He was riding in someone's blind spot between the curb and a car in the same lane. And he's surprised he almost got hit? Shocking.
I'd feel for him 100% if he was following the laws and THEN almost got hit. Of course the senator could have reacted less drastically and didn't need to threaten him... but still.
Why are you blaming the cyclist again?
09-18-08, 06:32 PM
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I've read the passage in the NYC DOT that I think you're quoting about riding on the left side of a 40 foot wide one way street. So I guess in NYC it's technically legal to ride on the left side of a one way street. Legal or not, there's no way I'd be in the situation he was in. Riding on the left side of a car, in his blind spot, in NYC traffic sounds like an accident waiting to happen to me. Obviously we don't have all the information so we don't know what happens.
In this situation I think the smart thing to do would be to merge with the slow traffic and take up the whole lane so that people see you. But that's just me.
In this situation I think the smart thing to do would be to merge with the slow traffic and take up the whole lane so that people see you. But that's just me.
09-18-08, 06:43 PM
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"I was riding on the curbside of that lane, near your rear passenger door."
Sounds like riding in a blind spot to me.
Yeah, it doesn't excuse the senator from being such a prick, but there wouldn't even have been an incident if the cyclist hadn't put himself in a dangerous spot to begin with.
Lesson 1: Don't ride in blind spots.
Lesson 2: See Lesson 1.
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," as they say.
09-18-08, 06:45 PM
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If that idiot cyclist were a real New Yorker he'd stalk the ahole and key his friggin Mercedes instead of writing some wussyass stupid friggin letter.
