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Old 08-27-11 | 06:05 PM
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UberGeek
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Originally Posted by motobecane69
if you haven't lived in nyc, don't waste your time commenting about running red lights. as others who live here like myself have already noted, you slow down, perhaps completely stop, but then you go through when no one is coming. the notion that bikes are vehicles is utterly stupid. we aren't cars, we aren't pedestrians, there needs to be a common sense understanding of that. I see pedestrians get mad at me for buzzing them when I have the light and they are jaywalking. Am i supposed to take the fact that they are walking out into the street to mean that there aren't cars behind me so I can just swerve into the next lane?
No, you're supposed to yield the right of way to pedestrians at all times... True, we are not cars. But, we are vehicles, as determined by the NYSDOT.

Don't like it? Try to get the DMV to change their minds about what bicycles are.
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