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In article <3ad5sc$m8r@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>, ben@utig.ig.utexas.edu wrote:

>Don can hold the down "cars rule" end of the discussion just fine.  We
>need someone to represent that extremist point of view anyhow since 
>it is the view of most of the people in town.

I am not an extremist.  In case you haven't noticed, I ceded defeat
yesterday when presented with *evidence* (in the form of study results),
that my opinions about bicycle licensing were wrong.  If I was an
extremist, I wouldn't have let something as silly as evidence get in my
way, and I would have been arguing to ban bikes instead of requiring
bikers to pay license fees like drivers.

I'll say it one more time so all you people who have been (deliberately?)
misunderstanding me will have one more chance to get it: I have not
written anything in this entire discussion which proposed banning bikes
from the streets or restricting their rights.  I have said that I don't
particularly like having them there because they get in the way of cars,
but that's not the same thing as advocating their removal.  I also don't
like getting caught behind big trucks because they usually go too slow and
they obstruct my forward vision, but I'm not arguing to have them banned
from the public roads either.  I have also said that I get angry at bikers
who flagrantly break the law by doing stuff like riding between traffic
lanes, running red lights and stop signs, etc.  This is because I sense a
certain amount of hypocrisy in bikers who moan and groan about drivers
denying them their equal rights but who then abuse those same rights and
dismiss it as "OK" because they're "more maneurverable".  I realize that
not all bikers are like this.  Those who obey the laws have my respect;
those who don't have my contempt.

                                ++Don Nash

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