Traffic Ticket

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While riding a CaBi in crystal city this morning, I received a $161 ticket from a motorcycle cop for riding through an intersection on the Walk Light. Officer Maplethorpe said that because I was not within the designated cross-walk stripes that I was a vehicle and therefore had disobeyed the light. This was at 23rd and Clark st in Crystal City where all lights are red when the pedestrian cross walk signal is on.

He said to avoid a ticket I would have to jump up onto the sidewalk and ride in the cross-walk. When I said I didn’t want to be where pedestrians were walking he said that was my only choice and it was for my safety. I tried for sympathy by recounting the times I’ve been hit by cars this year and the near misses, he said if I rode in the cross-walk I would not have so many near misses.

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