Originally Posted by
Kontact
Because vehicles are required to pull over and stop for emergency vehicles, and your description makes it sound like you couldn't stop because of the difficulty of riding over a low curb, which you could have stepped over.
It's a bike, not a motorcycle. You can pick it up easily.
You try being in front of a 20T fire engine that is 8-10ft. wide(wider than 6' travel lanes), and on a call.
Hmm... Let me go through your list of pompous remarks.
Originally Posted by
Leisesturm
Well, he says they were receptive to his reasoning.
They were.
Originally Posted by
Leisesturm
Not sure if that is sarcasm.
I wasn't being sarcastic.
Originally Posted by
Leisesturm
What I wonder is: was there really no way to let a First Responder vehicle go by?
No there wasn't, in the lane.
Originally Posted by
Leisesturm
You can't tell me that it was so close to the edge of the road that it would be unsafe to pull over right.
The width of a travel lane is 6ft. But the width of a fire truck is 8-10ft.. Definitely no room to safely be passed by a fire truck
Originally Posted by
Leisesturm
I'm not believing that. And neither are they.
Whether you believe it, or not. C'est la vie. If, by 'they', you are referring to the fire department. When I told them why, I didn't pull off the road, at one of those business entrances. They understood my reasoning. I even mentioned, that. I knew the state law about pulling over for 911 vehicles.
Originally Posted by
Leisesturm
So don't try it again.
I moved several states south in 2019. The possibility of that happening here. Is next to '0'. Even though the fire department is on the other side of the 'road" (NC's definition of a highway).
Originally Posted by
Leisesturm
Seconds count in emergencies.
Tell me something, I don't already know.
Originally Posted by
Leisesturm
1/4 mi at road bicycle speeds is too many seconds to have on your Karma tally if someone's life was jeopardized for your entitlement.
Entitlement had nothing to do with it. My safety had everything to do with it.
Originally Posted by
Leisesturm
Maybe don't use that road if you can't properly respond to any and all situations that may arise there.
I know the state law.