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Bicycle Enforcement Needed
Posted by:
Bicyclist Rage
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Date: June 06, 2013 03:20PM
Lately I've been seeing group of bicyclists that completely ignore all road signs.
Why aren't these bicyclist ticketed? I have seen the groups in the Reston area, Franklin Farms and Springfield.
Running stop signs and red lights is just as illegal on a bicycle as it on in a car. Somebody is going to get killed one of these days.
HOW ABOUT A LITTLE EXTRA BICYCLE ENFORCEMENT!
Why aren't these bicyclist ticketed? I have seen the groups in the Reston area, Franklin Farms and Springfield.
Running stop signs and red lights is just as illegal on a bicycle as it on in a car. Somebody is going to get killed one of these days.
HOW ABOUT A LITTLE EXTRA BICYCLE ENFORCEMENT!
Re: Bicycle Enforcement Needed
Posted by:
SFAY
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Date: June 06, 2013 03:22PM
Why don't you shut the fuck up and mind your own damn business?
Re: Bicycle Enforcement Needed
Posted by:
Lance in Pants
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Date: June 06, 2013 03:26PM
Bicyclist Rage Wrote:
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> Lately I've been seeing group of bicyclists that
> completely ignore all road signs.
>
> Why aren't these bicyclist ticketed? I have seen
> the groups in the Reston area, Franklin Farms and
> Springfield.
>
> Running stop signs and red lights is just as
> illegal on a bicycle as it on in a car. Somebody
> is going to get killed one of these days.
>
> HOW ABOUT A LITTLE EXTRA BICYCLE ENFORCEMENT!
+1, They are all the roads like ants. You never know where they are going to fly out of or swerve in and out of.
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> Lately I've been seeing group of bicyclists that
> completely ignore all road signs.
>
> Why aren't these bicyclist ticketed? I have seen
> the groups in the Reston area, Franklin Farms and
> Springfield.
>
> Running stop signs and red lights is just as
> illegal on a bicycle as it on in a car. Somebody
> is going to get killed one of these days.
>
> HOW ABOUT A LITTLE EXTRA BICYCLE ENFORCEMENT!
+1, They are all the roads like ants. You never know where they are going to fly out of or swerve in and out of.
Re: Bicycle Enforcement Needed
Posted by:
Bill.N.
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Date: June 06, 2013 03:58PM
SFAY Wrote:
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> Why don't you shut the fuck up and mind your own
> damn business?
Bicyclists who don't obey the rules of the road quite often end up being someone else's business.
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> Why don't you shut the fuck up and mind your own
> damn business?
Bicyclists who don't obey the rules of the road quite often end up being someone else's business.
Re: Bicycle Enforcement Needed
Posted by:
Bicyclist Rage
()
Date: June 06, 2013 04:07PM
SFAY Wrote:
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> Why don't you shut the fuck up and mind your own
> damn business?
Look, I'm not asking people to run over the bicyclists or not stop for them when they cut threw traffic signals and signs.
I'm simply pointing out that bicyclists are starting to get out of control and before we have a rash of dead bicyclists the county should do some extra enforcement to curb the activities.
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> Why don't you shut the fuck up and mind your own
> damn business?
Look, I'm not asking people to run over the bicyclists or not stop for them when they cut threw traffic signals and signs.
I'm simply pointing out that bicyclists are starting to get out of control and before we have a rash of dead bicyclists the county should do some extra enforcement to curb the activities.
Re: Bicycle Enforcement Needed
Posted by:
Drunk Red-Dot on the W&OD
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Date: June 06, 2013 04:10PM
I never let a bicyclist get in my way...
Re: Bicycle Enforcement Needed
Posted by:
0tter
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Date: June 06, 2013 05:18PM
OP, ride your bike and then these problem bikers will no longer be a problem.
Re: Bicycle Enforcement Needed
Posted by:
correctty
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Date: June 06, 2013 05:22PM
You are right they (we) should stop for every stop sign. I absolutely do that on busy roads on quite back roads Ill do a California roll on my bike. Truth is they dont get tickets usually because they are the only ones going to die pretty much. Im not excusing the behavior just answering the question. For every cyclist running a stop sign there are 50 vehicles doing the same thing - which do you go after first? The one that weighs 2 tons not the buck fifty bike guy...
Re: Bicycle Enforcement Needed
Posted by:
STFU Fairfax Drivers
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Date: June 06, 2013 07:47PM
Re: Bicycle Enforcement Needed
Posted by:
Crazy Bicyclists
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Date: June 07, 2013 02:31PM
By my count this year there have been 10 people killed in bicycle related accidents.
We should hit at least 15 by years end.
We should hit at least 15 by years end.
Re: Bicycle Enforcement Needed
Posted by:
The Vatican
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Date: June 07, 2013 02:34PM
SFAY Wrote:
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> Why don't you shut the fuck up and mind your own
> damn business?
Amen!!!
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> Why don't you shut the fuck up and mind your own
> damn business?
Amen!!!
Re: Bicycle Enforcement Needed
Posted by:
holy fucking shit
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Date: June 07, 2013 03:10PM
On Tuesday evening around 7:30pm I witnessed a whole pack of these fuckers, at least 25 of them, riding close and barreling down Folkstone towards Fox Mill Rd. FOX FUCKING MILL ROAD. They deserve to die a humiliating and agonizing death.
Re: Bicycle Enforcement Needed
Posted by:
Goober
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Date: June 07, 2013 03:19PM
Just get a box of tacks and throw them along the route they take. Gets rid of them quick. Off the bike and walking
I do not understand why they think they should be allowed on the roadway but do not have to follow the laws of the road. I swerve at them every chance I get
I do not understand why they think they should be allowed on the roadway but do not have to follow the laws of the road. I swerve at them every chance I get
Re: Bicycle Enforcement Needed
Posted by:
yellow pants
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Date: June 07, 2013 05:11PM
Re: Bicycle Enforcement Needed
Posted by:
Snapple
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Date: June 07, 2013 05:31PM
The W&OD crosses a street in my neighborhood. There are stops signs on the trail, so the bikers are supposed to stop before crossing the road, but a lot of them fly right though at full speed. I have to be careful and drive slowly to avoid running those idiots over.
Re: Bicycle Enforcement Needed
Posted by:
3rd world report
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Date: June 07, 2013 05:44PM
So sorry your inconvenience. Im sure those that have nothing to eat tonight can understand your misery..... Vienna is like a liberal country occupied by mindless yuppie scum
Re: Bicycle Enforcement Needed
Posted by:
too funny!!!
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Date: June 07, 2013 08:03PM
i hate people on bikes. they seem to think they own the roads, have the right of way, and dont have to obey the traffic laws. by the way, this pic was so funny.
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Re: Bicycle Enforcement Needed
Posted by:
Bike rage!
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Date: June 07, 2013 09:11PM
Snapple Wrote:
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> The W&OD crosses a street in my neighborhood.
> There are stops signs on the trail, so the bikers
> are supposed to stop before crossing the road, but
> a lot of them fly right though at full speed. I
> have to be careful and drive slowly to avoid
> running those idiots over.
I have yet to see a bicyclist stop for a stop sign. The group of cyclists certainly don't stop for any stop signs. It's a pack of crazy gay guys.
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> The W&OD crosses a street in my neighborhood.
> There are stops signs on the trail, so the bikers
> are supposed to stop before crossing the road, but
> a lot of them fly right though at full speed. I
> have to be careful and drive slowly to avoid
> running those idiots over.
I have yet to see a bicyclist stop for a stop sign. The group of cyclists certainly don't stop for any stop signs. It's a pack of crazy gay guys.
Re: Bicycle Enforcement Needed
Posted by:
Routes Exposed
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Date: June 07, 2013 09:17PM
A good place to catch these crazy cyclist breaking the law -
http://www.restonbikeclub.org/event_search_results?review_state=published&start:date=2013-06-11%2000%3A00%3A00&start_usage=range:min&end:date=2013-06-12%2000%3A00%3A00&end_usage=range:max
Wednesday Social Ride
Date: 06/12/2013
Time: 06:00pm
Start Location: Parking lot across from Herndon caboose on W&OD
Description
No-drop, casual pace ride for new & non-agressive riders. Distance & routes vary.
Level: C, D
Mileage: ~20
Tuesday Weekly Ride
Date: 06/11/2013
Time: 06:00pm
Start Location: Hunters Woods Shopping Ctr -South Reston
Description
Levels 1-5; Avg speeds 15-25 Mileage varies 20-35+ Routes vary
Level: A, B, C
Mileage: 20-35+
http://www.restonbikeclub.org/event_search_results?review_state=published&start:date=2013-06-11%2000%3A00%3A00&start_usage=range:min&end:date=2013-06-12%2000%3A00%3A00&end_usage=range:max
Wednesday Social Ride
Date: 06/12/2013
Time: 06:00pm
Start Location: Parking lot across from Herndon caboose on W&OD
Description
No-drop, casual pace ride for new & non-agressive riders. Distance & routes vary.
Level: C, D
Mileage: ~20
Tuesday Weekly Ride
Date: 06/11/2013
Time: 06:00pm
Start Location: Hunters Woods Shopping Ctr -South Reston
Description
Levels 1-5; Avg speeds 15-25 Mileage varies 20-35+ Routes vary
Level: A, B, C
Mileage: 20-35+
Re: Bicycle Enforcement Needed
Posted by:
Hates Bikes
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Date: June 07, 2013 09:23PM
Crazy Bicyclists Wrote:
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> By my count this year there have been 10 people
> killed in bicycle related accidents.
>
> We should hit at least 15 by years end.
Well, at least it's a start.
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> By my count this year there have been 10 people
> killed in bicycle related accidents.
>
> We should hit at least 15 by years end.
Well, at least it's a start.
Re: Bicycle Enforcement Needed
Posted by:
Neville
()
Date: June 07, 2013 11:41PM
Absolutely. Those bicycle riders should obey the law.
Just the other day I saw a bicycle rider almost fail to yield to a pedestrian at a crosswalk. You would think that since everyone else in Northern Virginia promptly obeys the requirement to stop or yield to pedestrians at a crosswalk, a bicycle rider would too, particularly since Virginia law considers a bicycle rider at a crosswalk to have all the rights of a pedestrian. [http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+46.2-904 and http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+46.2-924]
I also saw a bicycle rider almost surpass the 25mph speed limit. Above that speed, his momentum could possibly have been deadly to a child or pedestrian.
While bicycle enthusiasts may complain that car drivers kill many thousand times the number that bicycle riders kill, (in 2009, 33,808 to a handful, the number was too small to be tracked by the Census) http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s1106.pdf, and that the health benefit to risk ratio is very favorable to bicycling (77:1, according to one study http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d4521), that should not prevent 100%, zero-tolerance enforcement of all traffic laws, particularly those dangerous ones like speeding, not yielding at crosswalks, signaling, and coming to a complete stop at stop signs.
Just the other day I saw a bicycle rider almost fail to yield to a pedestrian at a crosswalk. You would think that since everyone else in Northern Virginia promptly obeys the requirement to stop or yield to pedestrians at a crosswalk, a bicycle rider would too, particularly since Virginia law considers a bicycle rider at a crosswalk to have all the rights of a pedestrian. [http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+46.2-904 and http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?000+cod+46.2-924]
I also saw a bicycle rider almost surpass the 25mph speed limit. Above that speed, his momentum could possibly have been deadly to a child or pedestrian.
While bicycle enthusiasts may complain that car drivers kill many thousand times the number that bicycle riders kill, (in 2009, 33,808 to a handful, the number was too small to be tracked by the Census) http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s1106.pdf, and that the health benefit to risk ratio is very favorable to bicycling (77:1, according to one study http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d4521), that should not prevent 100%, zero-tolerance enforcement of all traffic laws, particularly those dangerous ones like speeding, not yielding at crosswalks, signaling, and coming to a complete stop at stop signs.
Re: Bicycle Enforcement Needed
Posted by:
adsfasdkfds
()
Date: June 08, 2013 07:49AM
Bicyclist Rage Wrote:
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> Lately I've been seeing group of bicyclists that
> completely ignore all road signs.
>
> Why aren't these bicyclist ticketed? I have seen
> the groups in the Reston area, Franklin Farms and
> Springfield.
>
> Running stop signs and red lights is just as
> illegal on a bicycle as it on in a car. Somebody
> is going to get killed one of these days.
>
> HOW ABOUT A LITTLE EXTRA BICYCLE ENFORCEMENT!
The Mexicans with their little bikes and peddling onto Elden Street in Herndon is on the rise again. Town of Herndon police wimps when it comes to upholding the law.
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> Lately I've been seeing group of bicyclists that
> completely ignore all road signs.
>
> Why aren't these bicyclist ticketed? I have seen
> the groups in the Reston area, Franklin Farms and
> Springfield.
>
> Running stop signs and red lights is just as
> illegal on a bicycle as it on in a car. Somebody
> is going to get killed one of these days.
>
> HOW ABOUT A LITTLE EXTRA BICYCLE ENFORCEMENT!
The Mexicans with their little bikes and peddling onto Elden Street in Herndon is on the rise again. Town of Herndon police wimps when it comes to upholding the law.