Re: Anyone ride through the 1st Ave tunnel by the UN?

On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:57:51 -0800, Prisoner at War
<prisoner_at_war@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On Nov 8, 12:30 pm, Eric Schweitzer <er...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On 2007-11-08, dgk <d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> > On 08 Nov 2007 00:53:50 GMT, Eric Schweitzer <er...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > wrote:
>> >>Just a data point ... I've been riding in NYC for near 30 years, and
>> >>have been hit 6 times, 5 from behind (all during the day). 4 of those
>> >>times while stopped at a red light. Once by a cop. (I've learned to
>> >>look BEHIND while slowing for a light.)
>>
>> > The statistics are in. Ride at night. I think I am safer at night. I
>> > have so many lights that driver slow down just to see what it is.
>>
>> > You're waiting at a light and got hit from behind four times? Someone
>> > definitely stuck a "hit me" sign on your back.
>>
>> > That's another reason I never wait at lights.
>>
>> Both the cop and a cab driver said "but why did you stop, you're a
>> bicycle". Seems expectations carry more weight than laws or common
>> sense. I'm supposed to ride through heavy cross-street traffic?
>> (The cop hit was on Lex at 72d, that cabbie on Third at 86th).
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>
>Wow, that's definitely one for the grand-kids!
>
>I figured that getting hit from behind can't be as common as getting
>hit from the side because drivers usually look ahead!  The few times
>I've gotten hit -- tapped, really -- was from the side, like drivers
>trying to cut me off and such.
>
>It's amazing we have such different experiences...I guess New York
>really does have fourteen million different stories!

Really, that's pretty funny. I guess we're really not supposed to stop
for lights.