{"id":243396137,"date":"2012-09-18T02:02:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T02:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=243396137"},"modified":"2012-09-18T02:02:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T02:02:17","slug":"the-washcycle-makes-some-good-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=243396137","title":{"rendered":"The Washcycle makes some good points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/trafficandcommuting\/what-drivers-should-know-about-sharing-the-road-with-bicyclists-and-vice-versa\/2012\/09\/15\/4b8c9426-fe72-11e1-8adc-499661afe377_story_1.html\">things to quibble with here<\/a>, but in general it has a lot of good advice and, at the very least, brings up things one should think about (quibbles below). I couldn&#8217;t get to the comments, but that&#8217;s probably a good thing. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I wish he&#8217;d mentioned that drivers turning right need to turn from the bike lane.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s rare that a driver who brushes a cyclist gets a ticket, let alone loses their license.<\/li>\n<li>No one gets charged with a three-foot violation &#8211; even when they crash.<\/li>\n<li>I find this claim &#8220;But inconsistent risk-taking as you zip through traffic puts more-mortal<br \/>\n riders at peril, because it makes drivers jittery and annoyed whenever<br \/>\nthey see someone on two wheels.&#8221; hard to believe. But you should ride in a safe manner. I don&#8217;t know why he didn&#8217;t just say that. [And isn&#8217;t consistent risk-taking worse than inconsistent risk-taking?]<\/li>\n<li>I do think sidewalk cycling is occasionally appropriate.<\/li>\n<li>I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re foolish if you don&#8217;t wear a helmet &#8211; but you are probably making yourself safer if you do. Wearing a motorcycle helmet to walk to the Metro probably makes you safer too, but I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;re foolish if you don&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thewashcycle.com\/2012\/09\/monday-morning-commute-golden-temple-restaurant.html\">https:\/\/www.thewashcycle.com\/2012\/09\/monday-morning-commute-golden-temple-restaurant.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some things to quibble with here, but in general it has a lot of good advice and, at the very least, brings up things one should think about (quibbles below). I couldn&#8217;t get to the comments, but that&#8217;s probably a good thing. I wish he&#8217;d mentioned that drivers turning right need to turn &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=243396137\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Washcycle makes some good points&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243396137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-in-maryland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243396137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243396137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243396137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243396137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243396137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243396137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}