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New Brunswick legislates to make crowding cyclists an offence
About time.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-br...wick-1.4141075 The result, however, is likely to be that of Ontario's legislation and it will be only enforced after a breach that injures or kills a cyclist. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO |
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New Brunswick legislates to make crowding cyclists an offence
On Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 9:35:56 AM UTC-7, wrote:
About time. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-br...wick-1.4141075 The result, however, is likely to be that of Ontario's legislation and it will be only enforced after a breach that injures or kills a cyclist. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO That is SOP. |
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New Brunswick legislates to make crowding cyclists an offence
On Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 12:51:15 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 9:35:56 AM UTC-7, wrote: About time. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-br...wick-1.4141075 The result, however, is likely to be that of Ontario's legislation and Â*it Â*Â*will be only enforced after a breach that injures or kills a cyclist. That is SOP. As predicted: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-br...bike-1.4143365. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO |
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New Brunswick legislates to make crowding cyclists an offence
On Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at 6:19:10 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 12:51:15 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 9:35:56 AM UTC-7, wrote: About time. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-br...wick-1.4141075 The result, however, is likely to be that of Ontario's legislation and Â*it Â*Â*will be only enforced after a breach that injures or kills a cyclist. That is SOP. As predicted: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-br...bike-1.4143365. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO You can't be serious can you? The car is king. And the larger the vehicle the more status it has. And human life means nothing to them. A driver can lose control of his vehicle and kill people and be given a traffic fine period. Until an automobile is treated as a dangerous weapon regardless of the circumstances no one is going to be safe on the roads. A couple of years ago while traveling on a heavily traveled road there was an opening in traffic and there was a narrow overpass ahead. A double semi a quarter of a mile behind me saw me pull out in the lane to go under this under pass and slammed the gas on. He had to be going 70 mph (truck max limit anywhere is 55) as he approached. The road took a zig-zag under this underpass. As I got under I pulled over and stopped with the concrete side of the underpass protecting me. The truck was almost entirely out of control as he passed by and this trailers swerved into the other lane where thank God no traffic was at the time. This is a commute route and it was only a God-send that there wasn't any traffic there at the time. It was a powdered concrete hauler so the entire vehicle was covered in grey dust so that it couldn't be recognized and the license plates were invisible. If the cops had watched him do that they would be more likely to give me a ticket for impeding traffic than they would if he had hit cars coming the other way and had fatalities. In a real world this man would have lost his license forever. Instead we see multiple car pileups not every day but every hour now. No big deal right? |
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New Brunswick legislates to make crowding cyclists an offence
On 2017-06-07 06:47, wrote:
On Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at 6:19:10 AM UTC-7, wrote: On Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 12:51:15 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 9:35:56 AM UTC-7, wrote: About time. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-br...wick-1.4141075 The result, however, is likely to be that of Ontario's legislation and Â*it Â*Â*will be only enforced after a breach that injures or kills a cyclist. That is SOP. As predicted: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-br...bike-1.4143365. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO You can't be serious can you? The car is king. And the larger the vehicle the more status it has. And human life means nothing to them. A driver can lose control of his vehicle and kill people and be given a traffic fine period. Until an automobile is treated as a dangerous weapon regardless of the circumstances no one is going to be safe on the roads. Unless this is affixed at the end of something more sturdy than his pool noodle: http://www.medievalwarfare.info/pics/morningstar.jpg I bet drivers would become very careful since they don't want their fancy new status symbol or manliness augmentation object scratched up. A couple of years ago while traveling on a heavily traveled road there was an opening in traffic and there was a narrow overpass ahead. A double semi a quarter of a mile behind me saw me pull out in the lane to go under this under pass and slammed the gas on. He had to be going 70 mph (truck max limit anywhere is 55) as he approached. The road took a zig-zag under this underpass. As I got under I pulled over and stopped with the concrete side of the underpass protecting me. The truck was almost entirely out of control as he passed by and this trailers swerved into the other lane where thank God no traffic was at the time. This is a commute route and it was only a God-send that there wasn't any traffic there at the time. It was a powdered concrete hauler so the entire vehicle was covered in grey dust so that it couldn't be recognized and the license plates were invisible. I've experience several of those low-lifes but usually in pickup trucks in various states of dilapidation. This is a key reason why I am staunchly pro bike path and prefer riding on those or even more, singletrack, rather than in lanes. Mountain lions are harmless compared to irate, soused, distracted or stoned vehicle drivers. If the cops had watched him do that they would be more likely to give me a ticket for impeding traffic than they would if he had hit cars coming the other way and had fatalities. In a real world this man would have lost his license forever. Instead we see multiple car pileups not every day but every hour now. No big deal right? If you get killed the driver will claim that you "suddenly swerved into his path and that there was nothing he could do" and then be acquitted. They even are if the cyclist didn't get killed and has witnesses. BTST, as a witness in court in such a case. The trucker didn't even have to pay a token fine. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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New Brunswick legislates to make crowding cyclists an offence
On Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at 10:46:01 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote:
On 2017-06-07 06:47, wrote: On Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at 6:19:10 AM UTC-7, wrote: On Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 12:51:15 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 9:35:56 AM UTC-7, wrote: About time. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-br...wick-1.4141075 The result, however, is likely to be that of Ontario's legislation and Â*it Â*Â*will be only enforced after a breach that injures or kills a cyclist. That is SOP. As predicted: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-br...bike-1.4143365. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO You can't be serious can you? The car is king. And the larger the vehicle the more status it has. And human life means nothing to them. A driver can lose control of his vehicle and kill people and be given a traffic fine period. Until an automobile is treated as a dangerous weapon regardless of the circumstances no one is going to be safe on the roads. Unless this is affixed at the end of something more sturdy than his pool noodle: http://www.medievalwarfare.info/pics/morningstar.jpg I bet drivers would become very careful since they don't want their fancy new status symbol or manliness augmentation object scratched up. A couple of years ago while traveling on a heavily traveled road there was an opening in traffic and there was a narrow overpass ahead. A double semi a quarter of a mile behind me saw me pull out in the lane to go under this under pass and slammed the gas on. He had to be going 70 mph (truck max limit anywhere is 55) as he approached. The road took a zig-zag under this underpass. As I got under I pulled over and stopped with the concrete side of the underpass protecting me. The truck was almost entirely out of control as he passed by and this trailers swerved into the other lane where thank God no traffic was at the time. This is a commute route and it was only a God-send that there wasn't any traffic there at the time. It was a powdered concrete hauler so the entire vehicle was covered in grey dust so that it couldn't be recognized and the license plates were invisible. I've experience several of those low-lifes but usually in pickup trucks in various states of dilapidation. This is a key reason why I am staunchly pro bike path and prefer riding on those or even more, singletrack, rather than in lanes. Mountain lions are harmless compared to irate, soused, distracted or stoned vehicle drivers. If the cops had watched him do that they would be more likely to give me a ticket for impeding traffic than they would if he had hit cars coming the other way and had fatalities. In a real world this man would have lost his license forever. Instead we see multiple car pileups not every day but every hour now. No big deal right? If you get killed the driver will claim that you "suddenly swerved into his path and that there was nothing he could do" and then be acquitted. They even are if the cyclist didn't get killed and has witnesses. BTST, as a witness in court in such a case. The trucker didn't even have to pay a token fine. This is why I believe that motor vehicles should be classified as a dangerous weapon and be treated as such in any accidents meaning that any driver causing an accident should be charged with misusing a dangerous weapon. Remember that this isn't just car-bike but you can just as easily be driving. Yesterday as I was entering the freeway all of the lanes were totally clear and as I was about to merge into the slow lane some SOB in the only car for a quarter mile sped up and then honked his horn at me. Then he slowed back down and exited the freeway a mile further down the road. This was little more than assault with a deadly weapon. |
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New Brunswick legislates to make crowding cyclists an offence
Unless this is affixed at the end of something more sturdy than his pool noodle: http://www.medievalwarfare.info/pics/morningstar.jpg https://www.google.com/search?q=chia...nVRNZ3AmrPRMM: |
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New Brunswick legislates to make crowding cyclists an offence
On 2017-06-08 07:29, wrote:
On Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at 10:46:01 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2017-06-07 06:47, wrote: On Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at 6:19:10 AM UTC-7, wrote: On Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 12:51:15 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 9:35:56 AM UTC-7, wrote: About time. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-br...wick-1.4141075 The result, however, is likely to be that of Ontario's legislation and Â*it Â*Â*will be only enforced after a breach that injures or kills a cyclist. That is SOP. As predicted: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-br...bike-1.4143365. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO You can't be serious can you? The car is king. And the larger the vehicle the more status it has. And human life means nothing to them. A driver can lose control of his vehicle and kill people and be given a traffic fine period. Until an automobile is treated as a dangerous weapon regardless of the circumstances no one is going to be safe on the roads. Unless this is affixed at the end of something more sturdy than his pool noodle: http://www.medievalwarfare.info/pics/morningstar.jpg I bet drivers would become very careful since they don't want their fancy new status symbol or manliness augmentation object scratched up. A couple of years ago while traveling on a heavily traveled road there was an opening in traffic and there was a narrow overpass ahead. A double semi a quarter of a mile behind me saw me pull out in the lane to go under this under pass and slammed the gas on. He had to be going 70 mph (truck max limit anywhere is 55) as he approached. The road took a zig-zag under this underpass. As I got under I pulled over and stopped with the concrete side of the underpass protecting me. The truck was almost entirely out of control as he passed by and this trailers swerved into the other lane where thank God no traffic was at the time. This is a commute route and it was only a God-send that there wasn't any traffic there at the time. It was a powdered concrete hauler so the entire vehicle was covered in grey dust so that it couldn't be recognized and the license plates were invisible. I've experience several of those low-lifes but usually in pickup trucks in various states of dilapidation. This is a key reason why I am staunchly pro bike path and prefer riding on those or even more, singletrack, rather than in lanes. Mountain lions are harmless compared to irate, soused, distracted or stoned vehicle drivers. If the cops had watched him do that they would be more likely to give me a ticket for impeding traffic than they would if he had hit cars coming the other way and had fatalities. In a real world this man would have lost his license forever. Instead we see multiple car pileups not every day but every hour now. No big deal right? If you get killed the driver will claim that you "suddenly swerved into his path and that there was nothing he could do" and then be acquitted. They even are if the cyclist didn't get killed and has witnesses. BTST, as a witness in court in such a case. The trucker didn't even have to pay a token fine. This is why I believe that motor vehicles should be classified as a dangerous weapon and be treated as such in any accidents meaning that any driver causing an accident should be charged with misusing a dangerous weapon. Remember that this isn't just car-bike but you can just as easily be driving. Never going to happen. There is a powerful automotive lobby and there is no meaningful cycling lobby. Yesterday as I was entering the freeway all of the lanes were totally clear and as I was about to merge into the slow lane some SOB in the only car for a quarter mile sped up and then honked his horn at me. Then he slowed back down and exited the freeway a mile further down the road. This was little more than assault with a deadly weapon. I had one of those a couple of months ago. Wanted to pass anotehr cyclist on an uphill, looked back, not one car in the right lane for miles, just a couple in the fast lane. Signaled with my left arm just to make sure. The millisecond I pulled farther into the lane to pass I heard one of them stepping on it, leaning on the horn and then pushing be to the right. He had pulled into the right lane to zoom up to me. Just another low-life. -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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New Brunswick legislates to make crowding cyclists an offence
On Fri, 09 Jun 2017 11:57:29 -0700, Joerg
wrote: On 2017-06-08 07:29, wrote: On Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at 10:46:01 AM UTC-7, Joerg wrote: On 2017-06-07 06:47, wrote: On Wednesday, June 7, 2017 at 6:19:10 AM UTC-7, wrote: On Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 12:51:15 PM UTC-4, wrote: On Thursday, June 1, 2017 at 9:35:56 AM UTC-7, wrote: About time. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-br...wick-1.4141075 The result, however, is likely to be that of Ontario's legislation and *it **will be only enforced after a breach that injures or kills a cyclist. That is SOP. As predicted: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-br...bike-1.4143365. -- Andrew Chaplin SIT MIHI GLADIUS SICUT SANCTO MARTINO You can't be serious can you? The car is king. And the larger the vehicle the more status it has. And human life means nothing to them. A driver can lose control of his vehicle and kill people and be given a traffic fine period. Until an automobile is treated as a dangerous weapon regardless of the circumstances no one is going to be safe on the roads. Unless this is affixed at the end of something more sturdy than his pool noodle: http://www.medievalwarfare.info/pics/morningstar.jpg I bet drivers would become very careful since they don't want their fancy new status symbol or manliness augmentation object scratched up. A couple of years ago while traveling on a heavily traveled road there was an opening in traffic and there was a narrow overpass ahead. A double semi a quarter of a mile behind me saw me pull out in the lane to go under this under pass and slammed the gas on. He had to be going 70 mph (truck max limit anywhere is 55) as he approached. The road took a zig-zag under this underpass. As I got under I pulled over and stopped with the concrete side of the underpass protecting me. The truck was almost entirely out of control as he passed by and this trailers swerved into the other lane where thank God no traffic was at the time. This is a commute route and it was only a God-send that there wasn't any traffic there at the time. It was a powdered concrete hauler so the entire vehicle was covered in grey dust so that it couldn't be recognized and the license plates were invisible. I've experience several of those low-lifes but usually in pickup trucks in various states of dilapidation. This is a key reason why I am staunchly pro bike path and prefer riding on those or even more, singletrack, rather than in lanes. Mountain lions are harmless compared to irate, soused, distracted or stoned vehicle drivers. If the cops had watched him do that they would be more likely to give me a ticket for impeding traffic than they would if he had hit cars coming the other way and had fatalities. In a real world this man would have lost his license forever. Instead we see multiple car pileups not every day but every hour now. No big deal right? If you get killed the driver will claim that you "suddenly swerved into his path and that there was nothing he could do" and then be acquitted. They even are if the cyclist didn't get killed and has witnesses. BTST, as a witness in court in such a case. The trucker didn't even have to pay a token fine. This is why I believe that motor vehicles should be classified as a dangerous weapon and be treated as such in any accidents meaning that any driver causing an accident should be charged with misusing a dangerous weapon. Remember that this isn't just car-bike but you can just as easily be driving. Never going to happen. There is a powerful automotive lobby and there is no meaningful cycling lobby. Yes a very powerful lobby. Some 218,084,000 people in the U.S., in 2015, or 66.8% of the U.S. population certainly seem to support the auto industry. -- Cheers, John B. |
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