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From: Peter <gh3451@yahoo.com><br>
To: Boston Critical Mass <list@bostoncriticalmass.org><br>
Sent: Tue, Aug 10, 2010 11:13 am<br>
Subject: Re: [*BCM*] Electro Bike....Re: Battered Biker Syndrome<br>
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<div id="AOLMsgPart_3_2d19782b-f323-476b-8fe2-73b74818e0ef">
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--- On <b>Mon, 8/9/10, Dave Atkins <i><<a href="mailto:datkinsg@gmail.com">datkinsg@gmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br>
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From: Dave Atkins <<a href="mailto:datkinsg@gmail.com">datkinsg@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: Re: [*BCM*] Electro Bike....Re: Battered Biker Syndrome<br>
To: "Boston Critical Mass" <<a href="mailto:list@bostoncriticalmass.org">list@bostoncriticalmass.org</a>><br>
Date: Monday, August 9, 2010, 11:07 PM<br>
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<div id="yiv1507419915">re the electric bikes...I think the reviewer was talking about just riding the bike off the street onto the sidewalk to park it--not riding on the sidewalk
instead of the road. I also wrote about that bike here:
<div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://davewrites.com/hybrid-electric-bikes-for-fun-green-commutes/">http://davewrites.com/hybrid-electric-bikes-for-fun-green-commutes/</a></div>
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<div class="yiv1507419915gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:54 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow">thom3@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<font color="black" face="arial" size="2">That<font size="2"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">'s an ongoing situ that will be well, ongoing, I keep trying to think of better ways to approach motorists on this... <br>
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BUT, BUT,did anyone read this<br>
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<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2010/08/buzzing_around_boston_on_pietz.html">http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2010/08/buzzing_around_boston_on_pietz.html</a><br>
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My immediate thoughts were, is it legal to bike on the sidewalk, let along ride a motorized vehicle on it? And a motorized vehicle on the esplanade? This all seems wrong.<br>
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<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/brookline/2010/07/by_jonathan_simmons_guest_colu_2.html">http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/brookline/2010/07/by_jonathan_simmons_guest_colu_2.html</a><br>
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Sean Roche wrote an astute "Battered Biker Syndrome" blog entry,<br>
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Battered Biker Syndrome<br>
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by Sean Roche<br>
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Newton Streets and Sidewalks | Tuesday, 03-Aug-2010 at 6:08 AM<br>
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A driver chatting on a cellphone almost hit Jonathan Simmons,<br>
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the _Globe_'s On Biking columnist. When confronted, she told him<br>
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he had no business on the road. His response? He wrote a column<br>
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wondering how biker behavior has contributed to the "road rage"<br>
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and proposing a 10-point share-the-road pledge, six of which<br>
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points apply exclusively to bikes and one of which applies only<br>
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to pedestrians.<br>
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Let's break this down. Biker nearly gets killed. Biker promises<br>
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to make drivers less angry.<br>
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These are classic symptoms of someone in an abusive<br>
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relationship. You harm me or threaten to harm me. It must<br>
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be psomething I'm doing. I'll be a better person. Promise.<br>
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Suggesting that there is some causal relationship between<br>
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cyclists' behavior and the woman's potentially fatal actions<br>
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is just wrong. Let's be clear. There is absolutely no behavior<br>
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on the part of a cyclist that excuses or explains a motorist<br>
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putting a cyclist in jeopardy. There is nothing that cyclists do<br>
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that excuses or explains a motorist being ignorant of cyclists'<br>
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right to the road.<br>
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Nothing.<br>
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Certainly, there are cyclists out there doing things that are<br>
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wrong and things that are technically illegal. Let's identify<br>
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and address those behaviors. But let's not even suggest that<br>
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those behaviors somehow justify the anti-bicycle sentiment<br>
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that's demonstrably out there on the road. Especially -- and<br>
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this also reflective of abusive relationships -- because of the<br>
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inherent power differential in the motorist/biker relationship:<br>
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motorists' attitudes and behaviors can get a cyclist killed or<br>
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seriously injured.<br>
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Perhaps most importantly, it's foolish to think that drivers are<br>
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going to respect cyclists and give them plenty of safe cushion<br>
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if we could just convince those pesky two-wheeled scofflaws to<br>
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stop at red lights. Dangerous driving, road rage, and rampant<br>
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violations of the rules of the road pre-date the recent surge in<br>
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bicycling. Cyclists have just become another target for the bad<br>
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actors in our car-dominated culture.<br>
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