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@DaveK 27841 wrote:

Not everyone at WMATA is useless. They have some dedicated and talented planning staff working on bike issues.

I’m sure they do. Sadly, they’re a vast minority. It starts at the top, and trickles all the way down.

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WMATA’s staff is on salary to lie 24/7 to the media and customers. Assume anything they say, especially anything from the mouth of Dan Stessel, is a bold face lie. So this is not surprising. Also, WMATA is not a transit agency. It is a jobs program. Once you realize that, everything else about them makes sense. Of course they can’t count.

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@jabberwocky 26929 wrote:

Thats going to play well in court.

I would love to be there to watch that.

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@Jason 26255 wrote:

Dear ELITE biker,

Thanks for passing me this morning and calling out AND ringing your ELITE bell not before you passed, but as you were already next to me. Thanks also for riding an ELITE stealth bike that is impossible to hear so there was no warning that you wanted to make an ELITE pass at the same time as I was passing a jogger. I know you had to beat your ELITE time to work or whatever it was that you were doing that made it so important to ELITE pass me at the same time as I was passing a pedestrian. Really appreciated you not only nearly causing me to crash, but scaring the hell out of me by calling your ELITE pass as it was not only too late, but as we were about to head into a fast corner. I am sure that your ELITE nerves allowed you to just cut me off as I was trying to carefully pass a jogger. Maybe you don’t know at all what its like to have normal nerves that get undone by somebody trying to pass you with only 2″ to spare on your left. I need to learn from your example so I too can be ELITE someday.

Normal commuter,

Jason

Sadly, there are people who would read this and say “You’re welcome”.

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I’d yield to that.

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I have a Ford Escape with a factory roof rack and cross bars. I found that most of the popular rack manufacturers have mounts that will attach to the OEM cross bars. I have to experiment with heaving the bike up and down a few times before I buy one though. My 10yr old mountain bike is not exactly lightweight.

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I have a mount for my GoPro on my windshield. I put it up there for long drives and bad weather. Not for my protection, but to record the stupid things other people do. But one day, it might save my ass too.

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I have one. It’s great. But the mere thought of making it a “requirement” is completely absurd. We’re not even required to have adequate safety equipment. Requiring everyone on a bicycle to have $400 worth of HD video equipment attached to your head is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard suggested.

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Oh. I suppose I should read a little slower.

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Congrats on the new job. You don’t need to leave. You can just be our long distance liaison.

And yet the ghetto ward is planning a protest because “there are no jobs”.

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This is the Washington Post. What do you expect?? Why do you even bother reading it?? Much like anything published or reported by WJLA, it is useless garbage.

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This week looks to be a vast improvement. Temps in the 80’s and dew points in the low 60’s. But also mostly cloudy and some rain here and there. It’s summer so thunderstorms can popup nearly anytime. Please check the radar and weather before heading out.

Speaking of… This just in…

SPSLWX from 7/8/2012 11:35 PM to 7/9/2012 12:00 AM EDT for DC Area: STRONG THUNDERSTORM TO AFFECT THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

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If you were thinking about jumping or crashing into the river to cool off, don’t bother. The water is 94 degrees.

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CCT re-opened from end to end. Caution debris. And caution one lane in the area of Mass Ave.

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@rcannon100 24311 wrote:

As a matter of law, yes it is. This is known as a design flaw, and is a tort. If you can anticipate injury by your design, and you fail to design to eliminate that risk, it is your fault. It is your responsibility to design in order to mitigate known risks. In this case, bollards generally can be designed to minimize or mitigate injury. Where the designer (here the govt) fails to mitigate injury, they are at fault – regardless of how the anticipated accident happens.

So when people are riding too fast, riding stupidly, zoned out, or trying to pass where they have no business passing, and plow into a bollard that any remotely attentive monkey could see, that is now the government’s fault. Ok.

I’m not suggesting there are poorly placed bollards out there that should be rethought. But the bottom line is YOU are responsible for watching in front of you and not hitting things that you can see and avoid. How is this any different than a pedestrian, or a child, or another bike, being stopped in that spot. Oh sorry I ran into you. I wasn’t paying attention, zoned out, speeding, and trying to pass everyone else so I don’t have to slow down and I ran your ass over. Maybe you shouldn’t have been standing there. I’m suing you for making me fall off my bike now. Does that make sense? Of course not. The bollard didn’t just jump out in front of you because it was confused.

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