Originally Posted by goldenchild
My point is is that no matter who's at fault for anything, the drivers or cyclists, it's up to us the cyclists to survive the streets. Sure the driver that hit me was legally at fault but I like to think of it as being my fault for not anticipating his move. It's a war out there and the only ones that'll be hurt is us so ride as aggressive as you can but think DEFENSE DEFENSE DEFENSE.
Good post, good point.
We are on our own, the cops won't ticket these people but they will arrest cyclists for fabricated legal violations. I think it was sad to see all the posters on this forum blame the cyclist, if you haven't been here, if you haven't ridden here, and you really don't know how she was killed, yet you blame her...
Maybe suggested bike routes should not have commercial traffic on them and the speed limit should be lowered, anything to cut the aggressiveness. It seems that if you take someone's life, negligently or "accidentally" you should automatically lose your license for a long while. That would bleed some of the aggressive arrogance out of some of these drivers.