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@dasgeh 95736 wrote:
Traffic was pretty bad downtown, so drivers were correspondingly more awful than usual. And tonight, I saw the worst abuse of cycling infrastructure I’ve seen in DC: I was head westbound on the Pennsylvania Ave NW cycletrack. Traffic was much heavier than normal along PA. Drivers apparently thought this meant that rules of the road no longer applied: They completely ignored the “left only” lane into the Reagan Building (13 1/2th St NW) and made that lane a “straight” lane — which put drivers into the WB lanes of the cycletrack. This wasn’t one lone idiot, but an entire line of unapologetic jerkholes that drove in the cycletrack for half a block, until the cycletrack veered left, and continuing straight cars ended up in the new left lane on PA. I was dumbfounded. Flabbergasted. I was really, really pissed. I couldn’t really think of what to do. The best I could come up with is snap and tweet a picture of it (which accidentally went from @kidicalmassarl instead of @dasgeh – oh well).
So I’ve been meaning to ask: does anyone have contacts for DC’s bike ombudsman and/or their BAC? We need to talk.
*edit to add: as those of you who bike here during rush hour know, there was a steady stream of cyclists riding both east- and westbound at this time, so it’s not as if the jerkhole drivers could have thought no one was using the cycletrack.
And here’s the photo
Take pictures of their license plates and make sure they see you doing it, even if you dont do anything with it, they’ll think twice about doing it next time.
@KLizotte 94361 wrote:
Panera Bread smoothie.
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Funny, it doesnt look like a bread smoothie.
