Joined: Sep 2001
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From: Fallbrook,Calif./Palau del Vidre, France
Bikes: Klein QP, Fuji touring, Surly Cross Check, BCH City bike
What I hate about freeway ramps...Happens couple times a week..Usually impossible to cross a couple lanes of a freeway on ramp, where there are pedestarian cross walks..
I just accept the fact it is safer to not ride through those intersection and cross at the cross walk..
So I do..Get the ok for pedestarians to cross. You better not ride across, because even when pedestarians have the ok to cross, on ramp traffic does Not stop...
Ocassionally, I have even lost my chance to cross in my designated time, because traffic will not stop.
The California right turn on red law has so effected motorists , they think they never have to stop.
I suspect motorists might be more willing to not violate a pedestarians right of way for pedestarians over cyclists.
that makes me so darn mad, good thing I do not have a rock or paint ball or something. Quite awhile back, I automatically rode across the cross walk and almost got hit.
I have read that LA has a plague of pedestarians killed each year because of this habit by motorists.