Re:The Economics of Bike Lanes
by ww520 on Monday October 24, 2011 @10:59PM
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If bikers blow red light with no one on around, people won't be complaining about them since they won't be there to witness it. People are complaining because clearly they saw bikers doing it in their vicinity.
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Vicinity can include cars behind cyclists who do this perfectly safely.
But your point is completely irrelevant regardless. The existence of people who blow through red lights regardless of oncoming traffic does not make people who carefully and deliberately go through a red light with no oncoming traffic dangerous.
You are basically saying that bikers are such super road warriors that they don't have to obey traffic laws since they are all aware of their surrounding. Then don't get mad when car drivers ignore you and run you off the road since they don't expect you are not following the rules.
Not that you've been listening, but I'm saying that the risk to others posed by cyclists and pedestrians doing the equivalent of jaywalking is minuscule compared to the dangers we as a society tolerate from cars day after day.
Making as big a deal of it as you have been is insane. Your thinking is no different than those who argue that vaccines are dangerous due to increased incidence of autism. Even _if_ it were true, its importance is still overwhelmed by the sheer number of lives saved compared to the alternative.