PORTLAND, Ore.
Adron Hall was kind enough to stop as he rolled along an 8½-foot-wide bicycle lane painted neon-lime green on Portland’s busy SW Stark Street. It almost glowed in the gray of late-fall drizzle. No driver could miss the lane nor mistake its purpose.
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A little training could go a long way too. In the town in which I live I pulled up to a four-way stop. I could see cars pulling up to the stop sign on my left, and a couple of cyclists approaching the stop as well. I had stopped first and I was on the right so I clearly had the right of way. As I entered the intersection the two cyclists blew through the stop sign. I stomped on my brakes as soon as I saw the two scofflaw cyclists ignore the stop sign. As they rode through the intersection in front of my stopped car, one of the cyclists turned and flipped me the bird. These weren't kids, these were gray haired guys in their fifties. And no, they weren't wearing helmets.
You are so right on. In my experience, cyclists in Boston and Cambridge think they are beyond the law because they are so virtuous because of their zero CO2 mode of transportation.
Helmets are a side issue. People don't generally die in bicycle accidents here in Boston because they are not wearing helmets. They die because, for example, they get run over by semi trucks as was the case on Commonwealth Ave. last week.
Have you noticed that the climate in coastal Oregon is different from the climate in Boston? I for one would not ride a bike through the ice and slush of Boston during January and February.
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