Originally Posted by
acidfast7
I said that both people (texting drivers and cyclists running light) should be given tickets.
In real life, you got 10,000 cars texting to 1 bicycle running a light and/or texting. That makes your point thin, almost invisible.
To prove my point, you can have a policemen on a busy street, ticket all cars on the cell phone, not giving bicyclist their 3 feet, right hooking or turning right in front of a bicycle taking away their rightaway, and count the ratio!! It wold be over 1000 to 1 easy.
In our lifestyle, a 1000 to 1 wouldn't even be noticed.
Originally Posted by
acidfast7
The enforcement on the cyclists is good, including me. It also
keeps the cyclists safer because they're less likely to run the bicycle stop lights or to ride without lights.
It's good for everybody.
As for people complaining the police have better things to do, I view this as an example that more serious social problems have already been solved
Again, you got everybody, and everybody's brother talking on the cell phone in cars, and most cities it is illegal, sheesh, you got the pedestrans walking across the street talking on the cell phones. IMO, your desire for safety would be better spent directing it toward where it do the most good and save lives. Directing it at bikers, IMO, you are way off base, not just a little but way off.
Just my opinion, and I think a lot of others share that same opinon too. People in cars have steel around them, people on bicycles are out in the open. If anything they need the protecting a 1000 tmes more than the cars.