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Originally Posted by RUCdaze
I'm certainly not defending the woman who should have been far more careful, but bicycles in /the Villages are a terrific hazard and should be curtailed or restricted.
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It isn't the bicycles that are the hazard, but the blatant disregard of the rules of the road and the ditching of hard common sense by bicycle riders, automobile drivers and golf cart jockeys. This tragedy wouldn't have happened if the woman driving the golf cart had bothered to recognize the situation as the dangerous one that it was, and had pulled over and done something to make things safer.
That said, I doubt that there is another group in TV that is as cordially disliked as are bicyclists, particularly the groups of such one encounters usually early in the morning. "Passive-aggressive" and "entitled" are the two words that come immediately to mind. Automobile drivers dislike them because they slow things down on the streets and roads. People frequenting the MMPs dislike them because they're an unwelcome third element between walkers and golf carts, thus complicating things for both. I confess to some of the same irrational feelings at times, particularly when I see a group of maybe ten have the lead bicycle hit an orange light just before it turns red, and then have the entire mob casually pedal on through the red light while automobile drivers with the GREEN light sit and seethe.
Rational? Nope. But emotions rarely are.