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Re: Cycling Safety

TimC <tconn...@no.spam.accepted.here-astro.swin.edu.au>

On 2009-06-28, Zebee Johnstone (aka Bruce)
  was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:

> In aus.bicycle on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 16:17:01 +1000
> Oscar Trint <Os...@memento.mori.com> wrote:
>> Sydney City Council has a cycle safety campaign:

>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/psycho12/3667536776/

> Don't really understand the mentality of people who make signs like
> that.

> Do they think that red light runners don't know that you are supposed
> to stop at lights?

> Do they think a red light runner will trust a signboard over their own
> feelings about safety?

> Do they think that people who run red lights will stop and open their
> eyes wide and say "My God! I never thought of it like that!"

And now I know why police always think that it was the cyclist at
fault in any collision involving an motovehicle at an intersection.
Why of course, the cyclist *must* have been going through a red light,
because that's what cyclists do.  Cars always only go through *green*
lights!

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TimC
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