MVT Was bumper to bumper this morning

[Dirt]

Literally

From what I can tell, these two had a fender bender and decided that pulling onto the bike path was the right thing to do. I asked them if they could move onto the grass. I think they were working on that as I came by.

Love,

Dirt

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[consularrider]

@Dirt 43359 wrote:

Literally

From what I can tell, these two had a fender bender and decided that pulling onto the bike path was the right thing to do. I asked them if they could move onto the grass. I think they were working on that as I came by.

Love,

Dirt

I hope when the park police showed up they gave them a ticket for using an unauthorized motor vehicle on the MVT. Of course that is assuming an awful lot. Glad to see they were gone by the time I rolled by.

[DCAKen]

I was on the RCP trail at Porter Street one day and came across a car on the trail, with the driver trying to change a tire. The car was blocked half the trail, but the passenger side door was wide open, blocking the rest of the trail. When I asked her why she had to change the tire there, she replied that she didn’t want to block traffic. It must have been too difficult to have gone a half mile farther to the zoo, with plenty of space to change the tire in the zoo’s parking lot.

[DaveK]

@consularrider 43375 wrote:

I hope when the park police showed up they gave them a ticket for using an unauthorized motor vehicle on the MVT. Of course that is assuming an awful lot. Glad to see they were gone by the time I rolled by.

They had just been in a crash, no reason to roll up and immediately give them another ticket. People make mistakes when they’re scared or distressed. They can be told to move.

[consularrider]

@DaveK 43411 wrote:

They had just been in a crash, no reason to roll up and immediately give them another ticket. People make mistakes when they’re scared or distressed. They can be told to move.

Sorry to be snarky, but heaven forbid they block their own authorized travel lanes (which bicycles are barred from) and block ours right at the top of what little climbing there is on that section of the MVT where it’s actually not all that easy to get around them due to the drop off on the river side of the trail. :confused: Let’s see, they also drove across ten feet of grass where they could have stopped just as easily. You can tell I’m not in a good mood today.

[mstone]

@consularrider 43413 wrote:

Sorry to be snarky, but heaven forbid they block their own authorized travel lanes (which bicycles are barred from) and block ours right at the top of what little climbing there is on that section of the MVT where it’s actually not all that easy to get around them due to the drop off on the river side of the trail. :confused: Let’s see, they also drove across ten feet of grass where they could have stopped just as easily. You can tell I’m not in a good mood today.

I thought it was the breakdown lane. Don’t all roads get a breakdown lane? And why are cyclists so greedy?

[consularrider]

@mstone 43414 wrote:

I thought it was the breakdown lane. Don’t all roads get a breakdown lane? And why are cyclists so greedy?

Got to love a four lane highway (oh, pardon me, “park”way) with no shoulders. Hey, I’d be happy with a “Share the Road” sign.

[baiskeli]

@DCAKen 43390 wrote:

I was on the RCP trail at Porter Street one day and came across a car on the trail, with the driver trying to change a tire. The car was blocked half the trail, but the passenger side door was wide open, blocking the rest of the trail. When I asked her why she had to change the tire there, she replied that she didn’t want to block traffic.

Did you tell her she was still blocking traffic?

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