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Posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Jun 9 10:24:34 2021, in response to Re: Signal priority in NYC, posted by Stephen Bauman on Wed Jun 9 08:28:16 2021. I definitely saw it when I said I did. Maybe I was wrong about it being on News 12, but I don’t think so. Perhaps, the video was removed because it was so obvious the cyclist was wrong, and it was thought it would hurt the bike movement.It wouldn’t be the first time that a media outlet uses its agenda to determine what they show as news and what they choose not to show. And you jump right to the conclusion that the Icyclist I chatted with was an anomaly and the only one out of 50,000 that behaves that way. Even if there are only several hundred more like him, it would still be a problem. A thousand would be a bigger problem. We all know that about 90 percent of cyclists go through red lights, but you just ASSUME they are all law abiding and behave in a satisfactory manner because you can’t find statistics to show otherwise. And how many would even admit to hanging on to trucks and buses and not using the bike lanes because they are too slow? Not many. At least he was honest. I am not overestimating education either, but when you have a society where children are not brought up learning about the importance of safety, authority figures are not respected, and everyone feels they are invincible from watching Hollywood movies, people will not behave in a safe manner. Until that changes, it won’t matter how many protected bike lanes you put out there and how much you lower the speed limit. |
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