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CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#280527: May 13th 2019 at 11:32:38 PM

Good. They should definitely be arrested and put away for the safety of others.

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CharlesPhipps Since: Jan, 2001
#280528: May 13th 2019 at 11:40:32 PM

Another fun Kentucky hellhole story.

"The police hate bicycles—riding them will get you arrested."

https://road.cc/content/news/130546-kentucky-cyclist-repeatedly-arrested-80%93-commuting-road

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#280529: May 14th 2019 at 1:42:51 AM

Four-oh-four

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#280530: May 14th 2019 at 2:04:39 AM

To Kentucky's Government -

Go fsck yourself. Because 3of4 and other analyzers have encountered an ERROR: Brain Not Found.

Edited by TechPriest90 on May 14th 2019 at 5:08:13 AM

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#280531: May 14th 2019 at 3:46:00 AM

I think he means that the link literally does not work.

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#280533: May 14th 2019 at 4:47:05 AM

Ah.

Point still stands though.

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#280534: May 14th 2019 at 5:21:40 AM

For the record, the defendant wasn't arrested just for cycling. They were arrested for cycling down the interstate.

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#280535: May 14th 2019 at 5:44:17 AM

Which is illegal according to posted signs at most interstate highway entrances. They are for motor vehicles only.

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#280536: May 14th 2019 at 5:46:45 AM

there's a very good reason they don't allow cycling there,the amount of cars there makes accidents highly likely and a guy on a bike would not last long there

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Ramidel Since: Jan, 2001
#280537: May 14th 2019 at 6:14:44 AM

That rule sounds like something the auto companies would write (you know, like the concept of jaywalking itself), but I might be a trifle paranoid.

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#280538: May 14th 2019 at 6:20:14 AM

You cannot safely ride a bicycle in 55+ MPH traffic, even on the shoulder. It's just common sense, like wearing a seatbelt. Also, as regards jaywalking, pedestrians just popping out of nowhere are asking for collisions. Drivers cannot be expected to play slalom down city streets with humans as the flags.

There's a certain subset of the human race who, through willfulness or stupidity, thinks that their personal beliefs should override the laws of physics. If you get into an argument with a car, you're going to lose whether you have a valid legal claim against the driver or not. The onrushing train doesn't care whether you believe in it, etc. Also, paramedics and coroners have better things to do than scrape people off of the pavement because they took a principled stand against the automobile industry.

Edited by Fighteer on May 14th 2019 at 10:08:09 AM

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RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#280539: May 14th 2019 at 6:24:23 AM

It's the reason why you're not supposed to walk on train tracks, with the added caveat that sometimes the place where you're toodly-doodling your 12-speed along the shoulder might be someone's only hope to swerve and avoid contributing to a pileup. I used to travel a stretch of the interstate in Vermont where speeds would routinely go up to 90 MPH. If you're biking for pleasure, there are safer places; if you're planning to actually go places, sometimes exits can be 20 miles apart. Biking on the interstate is deeply stupid and dangerous.

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speedyboris Since: Feb, 2010
#280540: May 14th 2019 at 6:49:40 AM

This is why we need more highways up to code with dedicated bike/walking paths.

RedSavant Since: Jan, 2001
#280541: May 14th 2019 at 7:04:26 AM

We really don't, though. Highways are not a place to walk or bike for leisure. Maybe there's an argument to be made for treating the areas highways go through with more respect, sure, but that was a conversation to have before we banded the Earth with eight-lane asphalt roads. Walking on the highway should only ever be done in extremis, like if your car breaks down or something - and if it's an accessibility issue, as in that it's expensive to own a car just to get places, then the answer is expanded public transit, not bike lanes placed next to semi-trailers doing 70.

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archonspeaks Since: Jun, 2013
#280542: May 14th 2019 at 7:06:41 AM

[up][up] [nja] There’s a reason why highways are elevated or otherwise seperated from normal traffic. You don’t want bikes and pedestrians anywhere near them even for a second. The risk of injury is simply too high.

Edited by archonspeaks on May 14th 2019 at 7:07:09 AM

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#280543: May 14th 2019 at 7:30:25 AM

Here's the fixed link btw:

repeatedly arrested and jailed – for commuting on the road

The situation is complicated by the fact that a judge ruled that she was allowed to ride her bike on the highway...for some reason.

She gets repeatedly arrested anyway because her cycling seems to be causing trouble for the drivers and they report her. The cops then show up because they have to do that, only to discover it's the same cyclist. Over and over again.

Edited by M84 on May 15th 2019 at 1:20:30 AM

Disgusted, but not surprised
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#280544: May 14th 2019 at 7:46:39 AM

[up]If I didn't know better, I'd think this was some manner of comedy skit.

Edited by HailMuffins on May 14th 2019 at 11:46:56 AM

Oruka Since: Dec, 2018
#280545: May 14th 2019 at 7:48:10 AM

Apparently she's not breaking the law, and biking is an economic necessity for her as a single mother of two.

Build a segregated bike lane, is what I always say.

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#280546: May 14th 2019 at 7:53:19 AM

The issue seems to be that she's apparently not cycling carefully enough, potentially endangering herself and the drivers. According to the calls the police get at any rate.

I gotta admit, this doesn't quite seem like a US politics thing though.

Edited by M84 on May 14th 2019 at 10:53:55 PM

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archonspeaks Since: Jun, 2013
#280547: May 14th 2019 at 8:06:35 AM

Or an example of the police doing the wrong thing, either.

They should have sent a poet.
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#280548: May 14th 2019 at 8:07:42 AM

This is one good thing Arizona has: bike lanes everywhere.

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#280549: May 14th 2019 at 9:51:00 AM

A road system where the only way to commute is via highway is a terrible road system, hell in some countries such a road system so illegal because of how it punishes those unable to use highways/motorways.

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#280550: May 14th 2019 at 10:16:37 AM

@Charles: You think the Clintons need to be arrested for the safety of others, despite not having done anything that's worthy of arrest? Because I don't think you read that article carefully. It says nothing about arresting the guy who's trying to encourage marching on a private citizens's home. Or about arresting the guy trying to gather a mob.

@M84: I think that link is also broken because I'm not getting it either. But yikes, if the lady is trying to cycle to work I have to wonder why she'd use the highway. Even if it's the shortest path that's like, right next to cars going at the least forty miles an hour with no stoplights.


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