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I haven’t read all the replies. I’ll just say get used to it and keep alert. The situation will never change.

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I’ve had close encounters of the furry kind in Rock Creek Park, but never on the CCT. But the deer are just as deadly. CCT’s more serious obstacle is cyclists using it as a race track. Oh, and angry turtles slowly moving between the canal and the river.

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It appears the Curtis and WOD are being blown off the map at this time.

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I have no problem with earphones and music as long as you can be attentive and and not an idiot. There are a lot of idiots on the trails. But a lot of them were idiots before the headphones became cool, so its not likely to have made much of a difference.

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I love watching mentally unstable lunatics have whack attacks like that. I would have absolutely pulled out my phone and video taped this encounter for YouTube.

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The commuter rail I rode in CT before moving here was like that too. Accelerate and the doors would slide open. Slow down and the doors would slam closed. But that’s not the same. A lot of big common carrier commuter trains are like that still. Amtrak, MARC, VRE, etc. The doors are in vestibules, not the passenger standing area. They are also not making sharp turns are high speed causing standees to flop all over the train. But on trains where the entire car is regularly packed like sardines with people standing in the doorways, that can’t be the case. A door opening en-route on a MARC train is nothing. A door opening en-route on a Metro train is a catastrophic safety system failure.

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Why is this happening?

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@Mark Blacknell 19236 wrote:

Err, so what’s your point? That lights and reflectors are meaningless when it comes to riding on the road?

Maybe this is a topic for another thread.

I don’t know where you got that from. That is the complete opposite of the point I’ve been making. I’ve made it abundantly clear what I’m talking about. I’m not sure why you keep taking it in the opposite direction. For the third time, there is nothing that specifies position, quantity,intensity, or type. Therefore, the law is completely meaningless and useless. Therefore it might as well not even be there. Our visibility on the road seems pretty on-topic to this thread.

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Mark, a useless meaningless law is no law at as far as I’m concerned. My point remains.

The advertisers aren’t going to do that. They don’t give a crap and it is tons of money. They probably encourage it.

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Mark, those laws are meaningless. There is nothing that specifies position, quantity,intensity, or type. They might as well not even have it.

And like I said, just stay off the WJLA site. Comment sections like that, and the behavior you see, is allowed because it racks up their web site advertising hits. Don’t even bother.

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@KLizotte 19174 wrote:

Due to Bunjabi’s post, I’ve left a pro-cycling comment on the site. I’m glad to see people are striking back at the haters.

Simply not wasting your time and electrons on WJLA would be a more productive and stress-reducing solution.

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I have to wonder if there should be actual legal requirements for operating a bicycle on a public road. Think about it, there are hundreds of pages in FMVSS108 that regulate safety and conspicuity of motor vehicles being operated on public roads. Primarily as it relates to us, lights of a required intensity and placement as well as reflectors of a required intensity and placement. Yet we’re allowed to place ourselves on the same roads, in the middle of the travel lanes, and we’re not required to have anything. We’re approx 1/10th the size of all surrounding objects (other vehicles). We might even have the same color clothing as the car next to or ahead of us. Or just all black. We don’t need to have lights. Reflectors are too small to be worth anything.

With this in mind, I don’t know how accidents such as this don’t happen more often.

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@dbb 19146 wrote:

These turtles were more mellow than those on the CCT and they appeared to be just chilling out

And I can personally attest to the angry disposition of the CCT turtles

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You thinking of this only as it applies to unauthorized motor vehicles. In which case, yes you’re right, these appear pointless. However, there is likely a very good reason. Maintenance vehicles. On the CCT, they just put up these huge neon yellow signs on the bridge crossing the C&O and Canal Rd that say NO MOTORIZED VEHICLES (same as your bollards). This bridge is in the middle of the trail, up in the sky, nowhere near a road. But park maintenance drives trucks on the trail all the time. They’re no longer allowed to drive on the bridge.

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Huh?? For a $23 knockoff product made in Guangdong China with no description, no specs, and no details… no I wouldn’t buy it. I would say it is most likely a useless piece of junk. Along with everything else on that website.

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