O.K. let me say I was hoping this wouldn't turn into a discussion about why was this poor woman cycling on a road that's scary & that any sane person wouldn't be. Let me tell you all from personal experience how I came to be one of the cyclists in the villages that feel it's safer then the mm paths. First when I started back some 5 years ago pedaling in the villages I started out on the mm paths but soon found out that golf cart drivers didn't have much patience and voiced it loudly as they passed me in a very unsafe manor. Next I started out pedaling on the roads but just on the shoulder. This was an accident waiting to happen. As an example I had just crossed 466 on Buena Vista south when a landscape trailer came within a foot of knocking me off my bike . I caught up to them at the Belvedere gate and asked them why they had to cut it so close & his response was the car in the left lane wouldn't let him in. I asked him if he had brakes & that maybe if he used them to slow down then he might have been able to get in the left lane when he had a chance. He just shrugged as if to say he didn't have time to slow down.Then there's the folks that feel the right lane is the only lane that exists on Buena Vista and Morse south of 466. So now I pedal mainly on these roads and take the whole right lane leaving the drivers of motor vehicles no choice then to slow down & go around me.Sorry if it's an inconvenience for you all that are in such a hurry but now I feel much safer because I can control how close someone is to me when they're passing. I do get honked at and cussed at but this is the only option I've found to be safe out there. Let's all share the road!!
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