Violation?
#26
Senior Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Bucks County PA
Posts: 168
Bikes: Cannondale Carbon Synapse 2, Cannondale F 500
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
Thanks for all the responses. The rider wasn't going fast so it wasn't a dangerous situation, just inconsiderate.
#27
Randomhead
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Happy Valley, Pennsylvania
Posts: 24,396
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 4 Post(s)
Liked 3,696 Times
in
2,517 Posts
I ride across the Bull's island bridge, but slowly, and if the pedestrians are milling about blocking the path I just stop and wait for them. It's a wide pedestrian bridge and there is very little foot traffic. OTOH, I always walk on the pedestrian path on the steel deck bridges that cross the Delaware. For one thing, they have little trolls manning the bridge that will feed you to the fishes.
#28
Procrastinateur supreme
I cross that bridge (Bull's Island) from time to time on my bike. If no one else is on the bridge, it's kinda silly not to ride your bike. If you use good judgement, crossing any of these bridges by bike is never an issue. Unfortunately, too many people just don't exercise (or even have) good judgement.
Reminds me of the time I stepped off of the curb to cross the street in Basel - no traffic in sight - and two separate folks reminded me not to cross in the middle of the street... we'll never have that kind of civic "dudley doright" mentality in a country such as ours. Here, practically everything ends up being a point of contention!
#29
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Colorado-California-Florida-(hopefully soon): Panama
Posts: 1,059
Bikes: Vintage GT Xizang (titanium mountain bike)
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times
in
0 Posts
I've been a pedestrian in a downtown section, trying to walk across the street at a corner intersection on a green light, with a green "Walk" light, in a painted pedestrian crossing - and cars stopped square across the crosswalk on their red light. Yeah, it's only bicyclists. Sure.