[TriLUG] [OT] TriLUGger on the news

[Steve Litt]

On Tuesday 22 May 2007 15:05, MG wrote:
> I think it would be great if more money were put into wider roads or
> more bike paths.  As a once and future bicyclist and current driver, it
> gives me the willies to see bicyclists on the secondary roads in the
> Triangle.  Posted speed limits are already too high for those narrow,
> winding, potholed, randomly obstructed speedways.   Then the
> I-gotta-qo-15-miles-over-or-die-trying guy in the pickup or SUV comes up
> on someone moving about a tenth of the speed limit and pulls around
> whenever, wherever. I know it's not the bicyclist's fault, but if not
> for them there'd be fewer front bumpers coming at me on blind hills and
> corners, heck, even on straightaways where the drivers just don't give a
> #$!.
>
> MG

If not for car drivers, road fatalities would decrease 100fold. I've heard of 
exactly one bicycle fatality that didn't involve a car or truck.

SteveT