I just don't fucking get it.

[mangosteen]

To the bicyclist that I almost ran over on the way home a few minutes ago:

Wearing dark clothing
on a dark bicycle
at night
making a wide turn
onto a dimly-lit street
WITH NO REFLECTORS
AND NO LIGHTS
IS NOT OKAY!!!!

NOT FUCKING OKAY AT ALL!!!!!

GOT IT?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?

Comments

[srl.livejournal.com]

The "claim a lane" approach is actually legally defensible in MA, despite what the legal code may claim. You're riding in a manner necessary to be safe. So long as you're not, say, blasting down Broadway in the middle of the lane, you're fine. (Think Centre Street in JP here, for why you'd rather block traffic in some cases. It's that or the trolley tracks.)

Mangosteen: I suggest you call the municipality you were in when that happened. Talk to the police, and ask them to enforce traffic law more aggressively on bicyclists. They need to be doing it anyway. Write the City Council too, for that matter.