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Old 01-22-09 | 07:42 PM
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unterhausen
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From: Happy Valley, Pennsylvania
I'm using a new route that goes down a couple of rural roads instead of up the main drag. Since the bike path on the main drag is impassable, the new route is a lot less stressful. The alternative is sharing the road with a batch of speeding idiots going 50-60 on a road with curbs and narrow outer lanes. I did see someone doing that yesterday, it's doable but my blood pressure is too high anyway. Haven't used the new route at night yet, not sure I'll do it tomorrow either given the likelihood of drunk drivers around here.

Tonight in town in a residential area with 25mph speed limits, a motorist ran a stop sign as I was approaching with the right of way. It wasn't so close that I had to slow down, but it was pretty annoying. He did slow down to 25mph through the intersection.

Yesterday, a guy passed me at a high rate of speed going down a hill with a stop sign at the bottom. Plenty of passing distance, but I thought it was pointless to pass since we were going to get to the stop sign at about the same time anyway. I was wrong, he braked a little but blasted through the stop sign at speed.

Last edited by unterhausen; 01-22-09 at 07:47 PM.
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