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<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt; color: black;">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Ben Salomon <bensalomon84@gmail.com><br>
To: Boston Critical Mass <list@bostoncriticalmass.org><br>
Sent: Tue, Aug 10, 2010 2:32 pm<br>
Subject: Re: [*BCM*] Electro Bike....Re: Battered Biker Syndrome<br>
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<pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>I want to be on the mailing list for boston critical mass, but i'm<br>
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On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 10:54 PM, <<a href="mailto:thom3@aol.com">thom3@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> That's an ongoing situ that will be well, ongoing, I keep trying to think of<br>
> better ways to approach motorists on this...<br>
><br>
> BUT, BUT,did anyone read this<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.boston.com/business/technology/innoeco/2010/08/buzzing_around_boston_on_pietz.html" target="_blank">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<br>
> ride a motorized vehicle on it? And a motorized vehicle on the esplanade?<br>
> This all seems wrong.<br>
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> -----Original Message-----<br>
> From: Jym Dyer <<a href="mailto:jym@econet.org">jym@econet.org</a>><br>
> To: Boston CM <<a href="mailto:list@bostoncriticalmass.org">list@bostoncriticalmass.org</a>><br>
> Sent: Mon, Aug 9, 2010 4:21 pm<br>
> Subject: [*BCM*] Battered Biker Syndrome<br>
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> =v= In response to this _Globe_ article:<br>
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> <a href="http://www.boston.com/yourtown/news/brookline/2010/07/by_jonathan_simmons_guest_colu_2.html" target="_blank">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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> appended below.<br>
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> <_Jym_><br>
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> <a href="http://newtonstreets.blogspot.com/2010/08/battered-biker-syndrome.html" target="_blank">http://newtonstreets.blogspot.com/2010/08/battered-biker-syndrome.html</a><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>
><br>
> 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>
><br>
> to make drivers less angry.<br>
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> These are classic symptoms of someone in an abusive<br>
><br>
> relationship. You harm me or threaten to harm me. It must<br>
><br>
> 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>
><br>
> 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>
><br>
> wrong and things that are technically illegal. Let's identify<br>
><br>
> and address those behaviors. But let's not even suggest that<br>
><br>
> those behaviors somehow justify the anti-bicycle sentiment<br>
><br>
> that's demonstrably out there on the road. Especially -- and<br>
><br>
> this also reflective of abusive relationships -- because of the<br>
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> inherent power differential in the motorist/biker relationship:<br>
><br>
> 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>
><br>
> 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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