Comments on: Road Rager Convicted! http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/2009/11/03/road-rager-convicted/ Encouragement, Education & Advocacy for Bicycling in the Real World Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:48:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: fred_dot_u http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/2009/11/03/road-rager-convicted/comment-page-1/#comment-4755 fred_dot_u Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:48:29 +0000 http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/?p=5490#comment-4755 One could replace the word 'buggy' in the first video with bicyclist/bicycle and be none the worse for wear. Did you notice the bumps and dips in that roadway? I'd probably only want to be going 5-8 mph on those roads! One could replace the word ‘buggy’ in the first video with bicyclist/bicycle and be none the worse for wear.

Did you notice the bumps and dips in that roadway? I’d probably only want to be going 5-8 mph on those roads!

]]> By: Wayne Pein http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/2009/11/03/road-rager-convicted/comment-page-1/#comment-4753 Wayne Pein Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:00:23 +0000 http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/?p=5490#comment-4753 Here's another that is a real hoot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWCBiJo0VdU&NR=1 Wayne Here’s another that is a real hoot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWCBiJo0VdU&NR=1

Wayne

]]> By: ChipSeal http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/2009/11/03/road-rager-convicted/comment-page-1/#comment-4751 ChipSeal Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:27:33 +0000 http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/?p=5490#comment-4751 The delays are because of all those wide vehicles hogging the road! Too many folks insist on purchasing these wide vehicles, and do you know why? It's so that when the <i>occasionally</i> have passengers in the automobile with them they can sit side-by-side and have a conversation with them! Now you think about that the next time a motorist complains about cyclists riding two abreast! :) The delays are because of all those wide vehicles hogging the road!

Too many folks insist on purchasing these wide vehicles, and do you know why? It’s so that when the occasionally have passengers in the automobile with them they can sit side-by-side and have a conversation with them!

Now you think about that the next time a motorist complains about cyclists riding two abreast! :)

]]> By: Keri http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/2009/11/03/road-rager-convicted/comment-page-1/#comment-4747 Keri Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:39:04 +0000 http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/?p=5490#comment-4747 I like that Amish country video! I like that Amish country video!

]]> By: Wayne Pein http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/2009/11/03/road-rager-convicted/comment-page-1/#comment-4746 Wayne Pein Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:16:20 +0000 http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/?p=5490#comment-4746 Kevin’s question: What did the police do when you called them to lay a complaint? The first time I was not able to get the tag number, and I didn't report it. The second time I got it and reported to the police. I went back the next day for follow up and they hadn't been able to contact him. I stressed that he should be contacted after work hours and the police agreed. But I'm not absolutely sure if they did, though it is likely. He is, at the least, on record. We have to keep hammering home that bicycles are vehicles, usually slow but sometimes quite fast. It's not hard to coexist with stopped busses and delivery vehicles, slow front loaders, amish buggies, and bicycles. Don't be an inept driver. Expect bicycles and change lanes to pass. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O33cepbJf4k Wayne Kevin’s question:
What did the police do when you called them to lay a complaint?

The first time I was not able to get the tag number, and I didn’t report it. The second time I got it and reported to the police. I went back the next day for follow up and they hadn’t been able to contact him. I stressed that he should be contacted after work hours and the police agreed. But I’m not absolutely sure if they did, though it is likely. He is, at the least, on record.

We have to keep hammering home that bicycles are vehicles, usually slow but sometimes quite fast. It’s not hard to coexist with stopped busses and delivery vehicles, slow front loaders, amish buggies, and bicycles. Don’t be an inept driver. Expect bicycles and change lanes to pass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O33cepbJf4k

Wayne

]]> By: Eric http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/2009/11/03/road-rager-convicted/comment-page-1/#comment-4742 Eric Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:44:57 +0000 http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/?p=5490#comment-4742 Oh yes, we can learn lots from this fellow. At least the folks over at the LA Times seem to "get" it. First they wrote an article, in their Health section http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-biking2-2009nov02,0,2055848.story?page=1 Then they put in a sidebar: http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-biking-motorists2-2009nov02,0,2529686.story And then, when they got nastygrams from motorists they blogged about that, too. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/11/do-bicycles-belong-on-the-roador-the-sidewalk-for-that-matter.html Oh yes, we can learn lots from this fellow.
At least the folks over at the LA Times seem to “get” it.

First they wrote an article, in their Health section http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-biking2-2009nov02,0,2055848.story?page=1
Then they put in a sidebar:
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-biking-motorists2-2009nov02,0,2529686.story

And then, when they got nastygrams from motorists they blogged about that, too.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2009/11/do-bicycles-belong-on-the-roador-the-sidewalk-for-that-matter.html

]]> By: Keri http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/2009/11/03/road-rager-convicted/comment-page-1/#comment-4740 Keri Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:49:35 +0000 http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/?p=5490#comment-4740 The crabby merchants are outright LYING about bicycles impeding traffic. It's a 4-lane road. If motorists are having trouble passing, it's because there are too many CARS on the road. http://russroca.blogspot.com/2009/06/blistering-5mph.html Who let all those cars onto the road. Someone needs to get them out of the bicyclists' way! The nerve of some people to take up that much space and belch out that much CO2 to move a single human at 5mph. ;-) The crabby merchants are outright LYING about bicycles impeding traffic. It’s a 4-lane road. If motorists are having trouble passing, it’s because there are too many CARS on the road.

http://russroca.blogspot.com/2009/06/blistering-5mph.html

Who let all those cars onto the road. Someone needs to get them out of the bicyclists’ way! The nerve of some people to take up that much space and belch out that much CO2 to move a single human at 5mph.

;-)

]]> By: Laura http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/2009/11/03/road-rager-convicted/comment-page-1/#comment-4739 Laura Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:44:26 +0000 http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/?p=5490#comment-4739 I think too often these days journalism isn't about reporting the news or giving in depth objective analysis on serious issues facing us today, but to write deliberately provocative articles to sell more papers. Just look at some of the language used in newspaper articles about the 'hastily' developed H1N1 vaccine. It's not about how quickly manufacturers mobilized to develop the vaccine but how dangerous it *might* be. I think too often these days journalism isn’t about reporting the news or giving in depth objective analysis on serious issues facing us today, but to write deliberately provocative articles to sell more papers. Just look at some of the language used in newspaper articles about the ‘hastily’ developed H1N1 vaccine. It’s not about how quickly manufacturers mobilized to develop the vaccine but how dangerous it *might* be.

]]> By: john http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/2009/11/03/road-rager-convicted/comment-page-1/#comment-4737 john Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:00:25 +0000 http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/?p=5490#comment-4737 What the public also reads in USAToday:"DriveOn visited the busy... shopping district of Long Beach, Calif., last week to see how the shared lane was working out. It didn't seem like it was going all that well. Locals and merchants complained that putting bicyclists directly in the path of vehicles is crazy." "An urban designer... wrote Drive On to say in the issue is 'contentious,' but says he doesn't think the 5-foot-wide green stripe down the lane slows traffic and besides, bicycles are legally obligated to share the road with cars." Is the USAToday intentionally creating a climate of disrespect? Notice the banner: "DriveOn, a conversation about our cars and trucks". What the public also reads in USAToday:”DriveOn visited the busy… shopping district of Long Beach, Calif., last week to see how the shared lane was working out. It didn’t seem like it was going all that well. Locals and merchants complained that putting bicyclists directly in the path of vehicles is crazy.”

“An urban designer… wrote Drive On to say in the issue is ‘contentious,’ but says he doesn’t think the 5-foot-wide green stripe down the lane slows traffic and besides, bicycles are legally obligated to share the road with cars.”

Is the USAToday intentionally creating a climate of disrespect? Notice the banner: “DriveOn, a conversation about our cars and trucks”.

]]> By: Kevin Love http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/2009/11/03/road-rager-convicted/comment-page-1/#comment-4736 Kevin Love Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:57:34 +0000 http://commuteorlando.com/wordpress/?p=5490#comment-4736 Wayne wrote: "Twice I had the same road rager buzz me..." Kevin's question: What did the police do when you called them to lay a complaint? Wayne wrote:
“Twice I had the same road rager buzz me…”

Kevin’s question:
What did the police do when you called them to lay a complaint?

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