Equal rights, equal responsibilities.
I think that there should be modifications to the severity of the law in proportion to the lesser risk that a bicycle poses to pedestrians, other cyclists, and motorists.
Somebody nails me with a car and puts me in the hospital-- throw the book at them. Someone nails me with a bike and breaks a bone-- punish them accordingly.
I don't want advocacy to equal total impunity for bikes. Riding a bike when you're THAT drunk is a lesser of two evils, but still an evil.
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The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. Christopher Morley