Failure to yield on a reckless bicycle near 1400 East Cabrillo.
Bicyclist Arrested on Cabrillo
Roger
October 19, 2018, 9:43 am
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It might be peanuts in comparison to you but when your a pedestrian on a sidewalk who cannot jump out of they way quick enough, and one of those jerks jump the curb to violate pedestrians it’s pe**s to me, theirs ….
A reality check on bad riders vs bad drivers.
I ride every day. (And, just in case you’re looking for a reason to get angry at me, sorry but I stop at every stop sign/red light.) As a rider, I am up higher than most cars and regular SUV drivers, and can look into their car. The number of drivers who pass me texting / their eyes on a screen rather than the road, is stunning. And, for sure, getting worse every year. Cyclists, stop please, it makes us who do catch grief for those who don’t. And drivers, holy moly, your screen addiction is beyond stunning. Are you really that afraid to just be bored for a minute, to be disconnected to others. Is your ability to imagine so diminished by your screen addiction that is it impossible to operate a motor vehicle without looking at your mobile? If so, do some searches about people who are in jail for vehicular manslaughter because they were replying to a text, or scrolling their instagram, etc etc. Do you want to be that next person, before a judge, a parent crying behind you because you killed their kid?
As a frequent pedestrian, cars, bikes and skateboards are constant hazards even while staying on the sidewalk and watching for traffic signals and cross walks. Now we can add electric scooters to the daily pedestrian hazards. I thought the climate change uproar asked us to walk more too? Or maybe they just want reduced population numbers.
HAHA! Finally! They caught one of those “scofflaw cyclists!” Throw the book at him!
Was he/she one of those spandex warriors?
Good. I cannot tell you how many times I see cyclists blasting through stop and yield signs forcing other drivers – myself included – to slam on brakes putting ourselves and possibly others at risk. I hope more people do this. That includes skateboarders too – saw one completely blow through a stop sign at a really busy intersection just yesterday.
My kids were almost injured when I had to slam my brakes as I was turning left at an intersection and the cyclist coming toward me didn’t even slow down until he was almost on the hood of my car. We almost hit the car to our left as I slammed the brakes and swerved to avoid the idiot. He just peddled off in his spandex. Cathedral Oaks is the worst!
Generally I don’t like to add to the scofflaw bicyclist tirades, but recently I was nearly wiped out by one of the misbehaving spandex warriors as I (legally) walked across a street. They really need to behave better. I saw a car run a red light yesterday. Overall, people are just a pain in the blank.
While I’m not defending cyclists who disobey the rules, as a daily commuter on city streets and the freeway in SB and Goleta, I’d have to say I see car drivers do very bad things *every day* (speeding, cutting too close in front, rolling through stops, running red lights, using their cell phones, head down interacting with their nav system, tailgating, doing their makeup in the mirror, etc.). Every day. I compare that to the occasional bike rider I see running a stop or not yielding. Objectively, the numbers are peanuts in comparison.
Eastbeach, that’s just not true about the numbers. I drive Cathedral Oaks *every day* and see cyclists blast through my stop sign *every day* – sometimes multiple cyclists at the same time! I see maybe 1 or 2 cars roll through that same stop sign every couple weeks. To say that more cars run stop signs and/or stop lights than cyclists, is absurd.