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In article <D.Nash-1111940958320001@bubba.ots.utexas.edu>, D.Nash@utexas.edu (Donald L. Nash) wrote:

> In article <Ztbmk8mjjy24072yn@DCSBORG.CLS.COM>, icedfire@dcsborg.cls.com
> (Iced Fire) wrote:

<stuff about licensing snipped>

> Someone asserted that bikers have the same rights and responsibilities as
> drivers and I have challenged that assertion.  The environmental
> friendliness and healthfulness of bikes has nothing to do with this.
> 
>                                 ++Don Nash
> 
> Internet: D.Nash@utexas.edu     The University of Texas System
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You have the right to state an opinion about whether or not bicyclists SHOULD have the same rights and responsibilities as drivers,  but remember that the LAW says that they DO!  So someone 'asserting' that they do isn't truely speaking hypothetically.  When you 'challenge' that assertion you are therfore raising a question as to whether the LAW is fair and just.  
To add my OPINION,  I feel that bikes and cars can coexist so long as bicyclists use a little common sense (not ride up Lamar during rush hour for instance) and cars show a little more curtousy.  When I cycle,  I try to avoid narrow streets where I know that I'll have to ride obtrusively in the traffic lane,  and stick to less travelled streets. When I drive, I give as wide a berth to cyclists that I can when I pass, I slow down,  and I'll even drive behind them slowly until a safe opportunity for both of us to pass arises.  There simply isn't anywhere I need to be so quickly, that I can't take 15 seconds to treat a cyclist with caution and curtousy.

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