{"id":181060675,"date":"2010-09-27T14:37:55","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T14:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=181060675"},"modified":"2010-09-27T14:37:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T14:37:55","slug":"ah-reminiscing-about-how-baltimore-police-treat-cyclists-has-anything-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=181060675","title":{"rendered":"Ah reminiscing about how Baltimore police treat cyclists, has anything changed?"},"content":{"rendered":"

"If anyone should be sympathetic to the bicyclists’ perspective, it’s me. In my teens, I used a bike as my main transportation and covered considerable distances in the Baltimore area. At one point, I was hit by a car that came out of a side street without stopping and was thrown into the middle of York Road, which is the main commercial artery into the city, roughly similar to Broad Street. The driver didn’t stop, but I got the tag number. I had to walk the bike home while holding the front wheel off the ground because the forks were destroyed. When I went to the police station with the tag number, they told me to get lost."<\/p>\n


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"If anyone should be sympathetic to the bicyclists’ perspective, it’s me. In my teens, I used a bike as my main transportation and covered considerable distances in the Baltimore area. At one point, I was hit by a car that came out of a side street without stopping and was thrown into the middle of … <\/p>\n

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