Re: Rights vs. Responsibility

I'm fond of telling people "Treat me like a tractor."

And, when people holler, "Get on the sidewalk," I respond by telling
them to "Get on the Interstate."

On Mon, 7 Feb 2011 15:04:41 -0500, Edward J Groth
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Yes - or a
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>pedestrian
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>farm vehicle
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>Delivery truck pulled over to the side
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>Mail truck pulled over to the side
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>Gardener's truck and trailer pulled over to the side
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>Cop and motorist pulled over to the side
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>Broken down vehicle pulled over to the side
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>(Around here, the two lane roads mostly have no shoulder, so pulled over to the side means taking up most of the right hand lane).
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>horseback rider
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>really wide farm vehicle (two lanes wide) coming the other direction on a two lane road
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>narrow bridge
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>I've encountered all of the above, and so far as I know they are all legal - in fact some of roads have signs saying "speed limit 25 mph when horses are present"
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>And another thing that bothers me - how come we're blamed for slowing down the cars. The stop lights that the motorists have to risk life and limb to get to in such a hurry aren't there to control bike traffic!
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>		- Ed
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