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you're arrogant. You're not doing any good for the environment per se, you're just not doing bad.
Sigh.
;->
That's what sidewalks are for.
This is 2010, not 1940s Seattle. Get a clue moron.
Bikes should stay on the sidewalk or on the Burke where they belong.
I'm sick of cyclists getting a free pass on the roads. My tax dollars should not be wasted on bike lanes.
Can you guys do car ballet? Nope? There you have it.
Good for you. I do to and I will continue to advocate that cyclists who disobey the law (helmets anyone? stop signs?) should be forced to pay maximum fines.
If they want to ride their toys in the street they need to learn to play by the rules.
Until then: STAY ON THE BURKE!
You are aware that the Burke is not a magical portal that weaves mysteriously throughout the city without encountering what you obviously believe to be single use designated roads?
Also we all pay taxes for projects that promote a diversity of uses that we may each never employ individually.
Right now, studies are funded by universities, people with mental illnesses are housed, kids are given free school lunch, and some dry-cleaning business may get a tax break, with tax funding from almost all of us.
That doesn't mean you personally have to be educated, have children, dry clean, or whatever to justify these types of public funding.
You can promote your own utopia if you want, but I like people and society, and I'm willing to pay for it.
You are welcome to use my tax payer funded roads, just don't expect me to get out of your way when you and your unemployed friends in Critical Mass cork intersections.
The grill on my F250 is polished for a reason.
I pay taxes for my roads, why can't cyclists stay on the bike paths where they belong!
NSFW
http://www.columbia.edu/~sf2220/TT2007/w…
I stay on the bike paths or "sharrows"...
Are all drivers terrible people just because some of them use their cellphones while making illegal left turns and try to run over old people and babies?
so wait, you're threatening to kill people?
Wow.
sorry I meant that last comment to 19.
woops.
It is, in fact, non-cyclists who are getting a free ride in Seattle. You're welcome.
Please tell me more about how these unemployed Critical Mass types are contributing taxes.
You liberal cry babies really tick me off. I'm an American. It's my right to drive in this country. I fought in Iraq! If you choose to pedal your little rinky dink bicycle in traffic - you better ride the speed limit!
LOL
Coward.
Henry don't you have some carcinogen birth control paint to go go huff or something?
Hippie
Then I hope you'll do your civic duty and call the cops next time you see a cyclist cross 3 lanes of traffic without signaling, run a red light or ride without a helmet.
Thanks!
Are you trying to brag?
Next time one of your family members needs an ambulance I sure hope it isn't stuck behind critical mass.
Whoa, shades of ECB right there. You know, that kind of rhetoric does absolutely NOTHING to improve conditions for cyclists in this city or promote conscientious interaction between cyclists, drivers and pedestrians.
i suppose i feel toward you how you feel toward critical mass. only i, unlike, will not suppose everyone who uses the internet is either like you or should be held responsible for your behavior.
"call the cops next time you see a cyclist...ride without a helmet." good one.
First of all, my family's cycling habits have turned us all into a race of super beings. It is very unlikely that we will ever need an ambulance.
Second, Critical Mass always moves over to let emergency vehicles pass. Yes, always.
Third and last, you are clearly not cool enough to ever understand the clear superiority of bicycles over cars. More's the pity.
#38: Re: CM getting out of the way. Really?
You must have missed these incidents. Sounds like a great time!
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Conte…
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/lo…
Oh hey, it's nice outside. I think I'll go shine up the F250 and go for a drive.
#38: Regarding CM. I guess you missed these incidents.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/lo…
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Conte…
It's a nice sunny day, I think I'll go polish the F250 and go for a drive.
And no-one believes you own a F-250 or have a job.
The law is that bikes share the roadway with cars. Don't like it? Fuck off. I'm fine with people who choose to drive everywhere, but you don't get a magical free pass to ignore other traffic, or get pissy when it inconveniences you. If the traffic with which you are legally obligated to share the road makes you late for something, you need to adjust your expected commute times.
Just like the fact that your car can drive 90 MPH does not mean that you can legally drive that speed on downtown thoroughfares.
Yes, life is inconvenient sometimes.
okay, that seems to make sense. it's difficult to argue with such a statement. i guess the wording unfairly suggests that most cyclists are self-righteous assholes, or implies that such an understanding exists or has been suggested, which it does not nor has not. but still, yes, not all of group A are also group B. well done.
but all self-righteous assholes ride bicycles.
here's where you lose me. everyone who is a self-righteous asshole rides a bike? it's not clever, if that's what you were going for, because it doesn't ring true. i'm fairly certain everyone's life experiences have demonstrated that there are self-righteous assholes who do not ride bicycles. so what's the burn? or what am i supposed to take from this comment? that you ride a bicycle?
i just don't get it. really, i think you may have meant to type:
not all self-righteous assholes ride bicycles, but all cyclists are self-righteous assholes. that at least makes more sense in context with what you've been posting. still not true, but a little more relevant. it also allows you to drive your F250.