Originally Posted by
JoeyBike
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If you are good with word problems, calculate how much empty space I get to enjoy by running a red light (that stays red for 60 seconds) at 20mph cycling speed as the cars coming up behind me 60 seconds later are doing 30 mph. I can tell you from experience I can stay ahead of them for about 1/16 to 1/8 of a mile. But traffic signals are not spaced that far apart, so I just "lather, rinse, repeat" for miles and miles enjoying a car-free ride
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Another good reason to run red lights in my city is so you don't get smacked in the face with a baseball bat by some young gangsta going through his initiation phase. Certain hoods you gotta keep moving through.
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Uh, Mississippi River to N. Derbingy is 1 mile along Canal, with light after light after light. So that's your lather, rinse, repeat, for a single mile. I know most tourists never see anything else of NOLA except for what is between Canal and Esplanade, and Decatur to N. Rampart, but you do.
From N. Derbingy to City Park if you are running lights, you are just running lights, because, well, it's what you do.
And shame on you for spreading fear of your city. Thugs with bats don't explain why you ride the way you do most of the time in most of your city. You ride the way you do, because that's the way you ride.
-mr. bill