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I see a lot of people riding bicycles on pedestrian sidewalks in Adams Morgan, sometimes at high speeds. This poses a danger to pedestrians. I witnessed a bicycle striking an elderly pedestrian at the bus stop on 16th St a few months ago. As she fell, I saw her head strike the concrete. Despite her assurances that she was okay, she was bleeding profusely from her head and we called an ambulance to checked her out. The issue is not a lack of bike lanes. Bikers often ignore the bike lane, preferring to ride on the sidewalk. What can be done about this?
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redline (Guest)
I see a lot of cars driving through pedestrian crosswalks in Adams Morgan, often at high speeds. This poses a danger to pedestrians. I witnessed a car strike an elderly pedestrian in a crosswalk on 16th St a few months ago.
Not arguing bicyclists aren't wrong, but let's be realistic here-bicycles stand to injure people for sure, and better enforcement needs to be applied, but the injury done by a bicycle at any speed will never match the injury done by a car at all but the most trivial speed. There are no bike lanes on 16th St and 16th St is a major vehicular artery, making bicycling on the road a particularly daunting idea. If people need to reach a destination on 16th St, they are likely to bike on the sidewalk for the last few blocks of their journey. Slow cars down on 16th, better enforce drivers being more tolerant of bicyclists and you'll end up with less bicyclists endangering pedestrians on sidewalks. It's 'trickle-down economics' at its best :)
Douglas Kingsbury (Registered User)
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