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Old 12-28-04, 10:27 PM
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Leo C. Driscoll
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63. Speeding cars and no police
64. Muggers in the Fenway and no police
65. Few red-yellow-green light sequences ---> jackrabbit starts---->bike casualties
66. Pissing contest between police and university police
67. Drivers running red lights and no police
68. Few if any bike lanes
69. Frequent and sometimes fatal "doorings"
70. Dangerous mobs in the Fenway
71. Students riding without helmets and without brains
72. Students riding wrong way on one way streets and without helmets and without brains
73. Students riding without lights at night and without helmets and without brains
74. Erratic snow plowing
75. Rampant bike theft
76. Rampant bike vandalism
77. Jay walkers and jay runners
78. Serious "heavy metal" road debris
79. Equal opportunity pot holes, craters that wreck cars and bikes
80. Road rage directed at bikers
81. Salt, salt, salt
82. Slush turning-to-ice-turning-to slush-turning-to-ice
83. Buses, farting buses, paralyzed buses
84. Interminable waits at lights
86. Drivers who cannot tolerate 2-wheel vehicles in front of them
87. Horns, horns, horns, car alarms
88. Trucks and buses spewing carcinogenic smoke
89. Ubiquitous deafening sirens- mostly ambulances and fire engines (Boston imitating Baghdad)
88. Bike paths dangerous (not plowed, not maintained, one close to oncoming cars on Storrow Drive)
89. For the traumatized winter bike commuter- sidewalks, icey and not plowed or shoveled
90. Sleepwalking pedestrians (mostly students) with iPods, cell phones, hangovers



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