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Old 06-04-2008, 01:06 PM   #71
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Originally Posted by habernac View Post
how is it a grey area? If you ride through a crosswalk you're breaking a law. It's pretty simple: get off the bike and walk or prepare to get hammered by insults and close calls with pissed off motorists.
The way I ride, like I said, they only way I'd be getting insults from drivers, is if THEY did something wrong. I fail to see how me getting out of their way faster is going to cause them to throw insults at me.

And again, it's a rule that seriously discourages bike use. I want to use the bike path, as it's much safer then riding in traffic (and that's what it's there for), but the idea is totally useless If I have to stop, get of my bike, walk across, get back on my bike, every single block when I come to an intersection. I'd just about get there faster walking.

Surely the law isn't intended to have that outcome.
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