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Crisis averted!

As you may know, my wife is executive director of ACE. She tells me the ACE board has not taken a position on that trail.

Make sure that when you tighten it, that little gap in the bushing isn't closed so that the two ends are touching. If it is, that stops the bushing from closing further and squeezing the post. I had...

The two of you kept squeezing every little nuance of how to cross the street while I was gone? No fair.

I noticed there were also more Micheal Jacksons riding tiny clown bikes and Elvi riding unicycles than usual.

That one is so obvious that it has to be deliberate. I hope.

Maybe it's really comfortable and the rest of us are the suckers. I'll have to try it some time.

Or even requires the pedestrian to stop.

I said "more innocent" - I was responding to the "hoping to intimidate the pedestrian" idea. You're right, it's not innocent, just less evil-intentioned.

Oh, yeah, sarcasm. Yeah, right. If you say so.

Yes, it is all my fault. Have your employer send me a bill.

Physics always wins!

Why stop at stoplights?

Well, you are an economist.

Well, I can see a more innocent reason - a motorist seeing that a pedestrian is yielding (out of abundant caution, and not knowing the law) and deciding that means he can take the ROW and cross the...

Whether its the law or not, or enforcable or not, when a pedestrian is already crossing and headed across a car's path, the car should slow or stop, even if the pedestrian hesitates. I think that's...

When I said "you" I meant a pedestrian, not a driver.



Yeah, the car should slow down enough to signal to the ped that he's not going to hit the ped.

A car could go behind a pedestrian's...

I'm just saying that if you follow the laws of physics, which you should be doing anyway, you'll be following the laws of traffic too.



Well, if the alternative to allowing a ped to cross is...

Yes.



I only quote them to help those of us who spend too much time on the intricacies of the law to understand it (at least it helps me). Some pedestrians also understand that heavy car +...

Sure, but that doesn't mean you do it yourself. That can often just make things worse. Nobody is saying don't do anything when someone is being victimized. If things are serious, and there's no...

I do that too sometimes, but I didn't want to give aljones too much information at once.

I think we have you covered on the other thread you posted, but to clarify - the Mt. Vernon Trail basically becomes the Custis (I-66) trail. It's all one long trail. Follow Mt. V north and you'll...

Exactly!

This crossing is okay if you just do it right. It's one of those crossing where you shouldn't push your luck, like some cyclists do at other crossing (and sometimes this one).

Hope to...

Drivers must stop for pedestrians when the alternative is to plow into a pedestrian.

If a pedestrian is crossing but will be safely across before the car gets to that point, the car need not stop...

Hmm. Sounds like they mean that a car can drive through one lane if pedestrians are only in a different lane. I can't think of any other way to interpret that.

And it seems the law supports it:
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I don't know without having been at the meeting. But I think educating pedestrians is as important to pedestrian safety as educating motorists. There are motorists who seem to think they can plow...