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Re: Driving Pet Peeves



In article <royce-2607951556200001@qemac1.ug.eds.com>,
Royce Myers <royce@ug.eds.com> wrote:
}In article <3uh6t6$42g@wanda.pond.com>, russotto@wanda.pond.com wrote:
}
}> In article <royce-1707951306380001@qemac1.ug.eds.com>,
}> Royce Myers <royce@ug.eds.com> wrote:
}
}> }In other words, Russotto feels that cyclists who fail to stay out of his
}> }way are open game.  Game is not out of line for him, he because feels that
}> }cyclists who block lanes are starting a competition:
}> 
}> Cyclists here have said as much.
}
}I'm sure you won't mind providing citations; otherwise we might think you
}made it up.

Tom Hoblub (sp?) is the cyclist I had in mind.  I don't archive posts,
in general.

}> }No, Russotto.  He's trying to make you wait until it's safe.  You'll kill
}> }yourself with your own impatience, but it won't be the cyclist's fault.
}> 
}> It would have been safe except that the cyclist moved out and blocked
}> the lane.  So now I can either pass unsafely, or sit behind the
}> cyclist for several miles until the next passing zone.
}
}1. It would have been safe...for whom?  Can you honestly say you were
}blocked by a cylist in a situation where it was absolutely safe for
}everyone if you passed?
}
}Or are you making this up?

Absolutely safe?  There's no such thing.

}2. Can you please tell me where you were blocked by cyclists for "several
}miles"?  Provide the location, date, distance and the speed at which the
}cyclist was travelling every time this has happened to you.  Please note
}how long you spent at the next light, and if you made up any time by
}speeding.

Don't be silly -- I didn't sit behind them, I passed them, illegally
and (relatively) unsafely.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto      russotto@pond.com     russotto@his.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."


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