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From: eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
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Subject: Re: Bicycles, Violence and Hatred
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Date: Tue, 14-May-85 13:14:12 EDT
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Oh, I want to add "insensitive traffic engineers" to my previous
posting.  These are the guys who program the traffic lights so
you see "DON'T WALK" before you take three steps into the intersection
and don't give a cyclist time to pedal half way across a street.

I saw a moped nearly hit a bicycle after such a sudden light change.
The cars could clearly see and stop, but the moped driver coming in fast on
the inside could not see the cycle.  On first reflection, I thought
this was dumb of the moped driver, but it was even dumber on the part
of the traffic engineers in Mountain View, CA.

--eugene miya
  NASA Ames Research Center
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