tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post6726897075753506009..comments2024-02-29T14:00:40.184-05:00Comments on Restonian: News blog from Reston, Virginia, the mauve-colored New Town (tm): VDOT Web Survey: Lawyers 'Road Diet' Hotter Than Justin Beiber and Kei$ha Put Together, OMGZRestonianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15519884797760354007noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-47036090135866720732010-12-03T14:09:23.233-05:002010-12-03T14:09:23.233-05:00If accidents are down, how come the rubber marks a...If accidents are down, how come the rubber marks and little piles of glass are the same or more? "Go slow as the slowest," doesn't seem to be working. How did they do that survey?scubadivernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-61336797053999953362010-12-03T08:48:21.061-05:002010-12-03T08:48:21.061-05:00First they came for the spandexers...First they came for the spandexers...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-28276991088691758512010-12-02T22:32:49.910-05:002010-12-02T22:32:49.910-05:00@Anon 5:55
Anti-spandex vigilantism is itself a c...@Anon 5:55 <br />Anti-spandex vigilantism is itself a crime.<br /><br />Then it will be open season on anti-spandex vigilantes by anti-anti-spandex vigilantes.<br /><br />You see where this is going right?HCKDnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-32268862539658685222010-12-02T17:59:19.509-05:002010-12-02T17:59:19.509-05:00A "survey" where folks self select to pa...A "survey" where folks self select to participate has no legitimacy by any standard of the polling industryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-83458602411950853242010-12-02T17:55:38.057-05:002010-12-02T17:55:38.057-05:00Jodanyo
Why is it a moot issue?
With no enforcem...Jodanyo<br /><br />Why is it a moot issue?<br /><br />With no enforcement against spandex criminals, self help is the only alternative.<br /><br />Maybe you can convince Hudgins to put up police enforcement traps at Glade and Soapstone on Tuesday evenings come Spring.<br /><br />Otherwise, it will be open season on spandex criminals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-67717606617343661032010-12-02T14:11:22.715-05:002010-12-02T14:11:22.715-05:00So, VDOT is blissfully touting the drop in acciden...So, VDOT is blissfully touting the drop in accidents during the first year (from 15 down to 3). I have a feeling that number will be higher during the 2nd year. Along the stretch of Lawyers near where I live, there have been 2 moderately severe accidents just since September. But none (that I'm aware of) in the 3 years before the road diet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-68776263884573527792010-12-02T09:10:41.851-05:002010-12-02T09:10:41.851-05:00Not all spandex is created equal. Don't know &...Not all spandex is created equal. Don't know 'em personally, but members of the advocacy group mentioned/linked here seem like the least likely culprits to be blowing past stop signs and hogging travel lanes at the expense of motorists... <br /><br />Everyone's got a responsibility to the law, but you gotta remember: while cars and bikes are vehicles that must share the roadbeds, they are two very different kinds of machine. Most cyclists know what it's like to drive a car, but only a small percentage of drivers have direct experience with road cycling. I wish non-cycling drivers were better educated to deal with the kind of potential road hazard a bicyclist represents. Do they even mention cyclists in the driver's ed curricula yet? <br /><br />And it seems to me that aggressive behavior toward cyclists, even in jest, even here, is dangerous. It's not what I want the kids to hear and learn. It's bad enough that cyclists must count the impatience and anger of motorists high among the hundreds of road hazards they must contend with every day. <br /><br />Not that I don't have a few criticisms of my own about cyclists who are arrogant, reactionary, aggressive, oblivious, or simply not competent enough to be off the sidewalk. Moot issue.Jodanyohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04107101481955175729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-75053647796386552252010-12-02T00:39:50.703-05:002010-12-02T00:39:50.703-05:00Since the cops refuse to engage in any enforcement...Since the cops refuse to engage in any enforcement action on Lawyers, then its open season on bicyclists straying into the Lawyers travel lanes. <br /><br />Fair warning, spendexers. Your reign of lawlessness is about to end on a front bumper of a Hummer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-63311975749535316072010-12-01T23:57:01.223-05:002010-12-01T23:57:01.223-05:00As a vocal proponent, I hereby reserve the right t...As a vocal proponent, I hereby reserve the right to do my celebratory interpretive dance of smug vindication and whatnot. Speeds maintained, excessive speed nearly eradicated, safe turn lanes dropping the accident antics 80%... what more do you want? And the bike lanes are simply ample shoulders to the road. This had very little to do with bikes, and everything to do with vehicular safety and traffic flow. And if the bikes creep into the main lanes, so be it... they'll do it more this winter as the road sand accumulates in the bike lanes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-51672743420712647462010-12-01T23:18:52.985-05:002010-12-01T23:18:52.985-05:00The site to which Restonian linked is a bicycling ...The site to which Restonian linked is a bicycling advocacy group. A bunch who support that gang of spandex criminals who run the glade stop sign every Tuesday at 7 pm during daylight savings. <br /><br />How about putting a chain across Glade when they show up next spring or maybe piano wire. Hudgins refuses to provide police enforcement, so I guess we're left to engage in self help.<br /><br />VDOT is not a credible source of information on the road diet. They're advocates for this stupidity. Naturally they're going to report that everyone agrees with them and ignore those who disagree just like the School Board. Big surprise.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-39199684109257689002010-12-01T17:44:41.311-05:002010-12-01T17:44:41.311-05:00I fart spandex.
(Don't knock it. It's lo...I fart spandex. <br />(Don't knock it. It's low in calories and high in fiber.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-87223168379212066442010-12-01T15:47:43.423-05:002010-12-01T15:47:43.423-05:00i heart spandexi heart spandexAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6412900754136064810.post-17436659775566390932010-12-01T15:30:12.115-05:002010-12-01T15:30:12.115-05:00I wonder who they asked. Probably not very many p...I wonder who they asked. Probably not very many people who live right off Lawyers and have to deal with trying to get in and out of our neighborhoods.<br /><br />Can't say I see any MORE bicyclists...and the problem of the road narrowing to the 2 lanes with zero clearance for bikes is still a huge issue ... and the roving packs still ride in the lane, eschewing their separate but equal lane so generously provided by my tax dollars.<br /><br />Bitter? Well, not really...okay, maybe a little.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com