Advice from a cop
10-20-10 | 07:34 PM
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10-20-10 | 11:39 PM
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10-21-10 | 12:36 PM
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10-21-10 | 02:51 PM
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He's as wrong as he could possibly be.
1. Riding against traffic is illegal.
2. Drivers making right turns from cross streets and driveways almost never look to their right far enough to see anything coming faster than a pedestrian (2-3mph) or even at all a lot of the time. They look to their left, where oncoming traffic is supposed to be coming from. This is a major cause of collisions.
3. The speed differential between the bike and cars is the car speed plus the bike speed (40mph+15mph=55mph). When riding with traffic, it's the car speed minus the bike speed (40mph-15mph=25mph).
The cop needs a class in bicycle safety and he needs to read the law.
Wrong way riders are my personal pet peeve. I hate playing chicken in the bike lane. When I go by a wrong way bicyclist, I usually yell "WRONG WAY DUMB ASS!". I've only been chased once for it, and it was by stoner, who tried to chase me up a steep hill. It was comical.
1. Riding against traffic is illegal.
2. Drivers making right turns from cross streets and driveways almost never look to their right far enough to see anything coming faster than a pedestrian (2-3mph) or even at all a lot of the time. They look to their left, where oncoming traffic is supposed to be coming from. This is a major cause of collisions.
3. The speed differential between the bike and cars is the car speed plus the bike speed (40mph+15mph=55mph). When riding with traffic, it's the car speed minus the bike speed (40mph-15mph=25mph).
The cop needs a class in bicycle safety and he needs to read the law.
Wrong way riders are my personal pet peeve. I hate playing chicken in the bike lane. When I go by a wrong way bicyclist, I usually yell "WRONG WAY DUMB ASS!". I've only been chased once for it, and it was by stoner, who tried to chase me up a steep hill. It was comical.
10-21-10 | 02:58 PM
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I enjoy yelling "Oye, pendejo! Otro lado!"
There is an element of irony, as I only yell it at apparent-English-speakers.
There is an element of irony, as I only yell it at apparent-English-speakers.
10-21-10 | 08:48 PM
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A kid on a mountain bike going the wrong way in the bike lane forced me out of the bike lane and into the traffic today. I was not happy. Neither was the car that had to slow down as I went into traffic to get around this knuckle head, but there wasn't anything I could do. The senseless thing about it is that the traffic was relatively light and he could have easily switched to the other side of the road and rode in the correct direction.
I hope that kid didn't get the idea from someone giving him this bad advice.
I hope that kid didn't get the idea from someone giving him this bad advice.
10-21-10 | 10:27 PM
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Another danger of riding wrong way is that pedestrians would not look your way when crossing the street. They wouldn't be expecting to be hit by you. But it can happen. Read this.
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"The accident occurred on April 28 as Gruskin was crossing W. 43rd St. near Fifth Ave., and Alfredo Geraldo, an employee of Call Cuisine Caterers, was peddling eastbound on the westbound street, according to papers filed in Bronx Supreme Court.
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"The accident occurred on April 28 as Gruskin was crossing W. 43rd St. near Fifth Ave., and Alfredo Geraldo, an employee of Call Cuisine Caterers, was peddling eastbound on the westbound street, according to papers filed in Bronx Supreme Court.
Geraldo plowed into Gruskin who was knocked off his feet and hit his head, the suit says.
His family kept vigil at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell.
While Gruskin spoke coherently at first, his health rapidly declined as his brain swelled as a result of traumatic head injury, which caused his death on May 1, the suit says. His organs were donated."
His family kept vigil at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell.
While Gruskin spoke coherently at first, his health rapidly declined as his brain swelled as a result of traumatic head injury, which caused his death on May 1, the suit says. His organs were donated."
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