A few odds and ends on the city’s transportation pecking order
B' Spokes: Seriously guys, learn to feel comfortable riding in the street (it is safer) or at least slow down while on the sidewalk. To start; join one of the rides posted in the "Looking for local riders" and talk to your fellow cyclists. Second point, I'm not the only one who feels that cars do not stop when making a right-on-red yet the police wounder why so many pedestrians cross mid-block... well if cars do not stop when making a right-on-red then crossing mid-block IS the safest place to cross. We really need to get cars. cyclists and pedestrians to start following the rules, and it has to applied across the board, with a strong focus on motorist as there are so many of them and in essence they bully other users into illegal behavior.
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By Jacqueline Watts - The Baltimore Guide
There is a transportation pecking order here in the city.
Cyclists in the city complain that motorists cut them off in traffic and drive with a general disregard for bicyclists’ safety.
Of course, not all motorists are that way, the cyclists are quick to say, while implying that most are.
So the City of Baltimore has marked off bicycle lanes on just about every street in the city to make riding safer for cyclists.
And still the cyclists ride on the sidewalk. Of course I am quick to write that not all cyclists ride on the sidewalk. It just seems like most cyclists do.
Just about all of us who walk any distance in the city have tales of close escapes as cyclists whiz by.
Joe Manfre did not get a close escape–he got a broken leg, and surgery, and is in for a good long stint of rehab.
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More on traffic. Can we all agree that motorists and cyclists should obey traffic signals? According to the State of Maryland they should, but apparently most of them missed the memo. In the last week I have nearly been run down at Conkling and Eastern, Broadway and Fleet, and Fort and Lawrence—each time while walking with the signal. A friend often has to dodge traffic–four-wheeled and two-wheeled–at Ann and Aliceanna.
You can make a right turn on red, but you are supposed to stop first. And while you are stopped, you’re supposed to look at the crosswalks around you, not at your iPhone. It’s a law, not a serving suggestion. .
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