Anyone ride through the 1st Ave tunnel by the UN?
On Nov 8, 12:30 pm, Eric Schweitzer wrote:
On 2007-11-08, dgk wrote:
On 08 Nov 2007 00:53:50 GMT, Eric Schweitzer
wrote:
Just a data point ... I've been riding in NYC for near 30 years, and
have been hit 6 times, 5 from behind (all during the day). 4 of those
times while stopped at a red light. Once by a cop. (I've learned to
look BEHIND while slowing for a light.)
The statistics are in. Ride at night. I think I am safer at night. I
have so many lights that driver slow down just to see what it is.
You're waiting at a light and got hit from behind four times? Someone
definitely stuck a "hit me" sign on your back.
That's another reason I never wait at lights.
Both the cop and a cab driver said "but why did you stop, you're a
bicycle". Seems expectations carry more weight than laws or common
sense. I'm supposed to ride through heavy cross-street traffic?
(The cop hit was on Lex at 72d, that cabbie on Third at 86th).
Wow, that's definitely one for the grand-kids!
I figured that getting hit from behind can't be as common as getting
hit from the side because drivers usually look ahead! The few times
I've gotten hit -- tapped, really -- was from the side, like drivers
trying to cut me off and such.
It's amazing we have such different experiences...I guess New York
really does have fourteen million different stories!
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