Brilliant Reader Comment: The Double Standard on Bike/Car Behavior

Except from Streetsblog Capitol Hill by Angie Schmitt

Yesterday I saw a bicyclist do [insert dangerous, stupid, inconsiderate, boneheaded move here] and it nearly inconvenienced me. This means all bikers better watch out because the responsible, productive, law-abiding members of this community aren’t going to tolerate this kind of of anti-social behavior from you riffraff much longer.

Yesterday I saw a car driver do [insert dangerous, stupid, inconsiderate, boneheaded move here] and kill someone!  A tragedy, but it was an accident, no one’s fault really, just one of those bad parts of living in the modern age that we all have to put up with. After all, anyone can make a mistake. It would be a shame to even suspend the driver’s license over it because they really might need it to get to work. It certainly is no reflection on me or how most people drive.

https://dc.streetsblog.org/2011/12/12/brilliant-reader-comment-the-double-standard-on-bikecar-behavior/

One Reply to “Brilliant Reader Comment: The Double Standard on Bike/Car Behavior”

  1. Via Waschcycle

    This is also a good point – from the comments "In San Francisco, we had a bike rider kill a woman. Everyone, even former head of the CA Democratic Party claimed that the bike rider should be charged. Of course, no one bothered to notice that 11 drivers who killed pedestrians in the same year weren’t ever charged." If you kill another road user in a car, you almost need to be this guy to lose your license.

    https://www.thewashcycle.com/2011/12/monday-afternoon-commute-oxycodone-marijuana-codeine-and-morphine.html

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