A caller is now bitching about riders running red lights in Oakland. He wants us waiting in traffic like all the other tools. Host and caller agree that cars are worse offenders.
2011-06-01 14:24:34
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Bicycling on the radio
My father and law let me know. Listening now. Dude is railing on distracted driving.
2011-06-01 14:22:02
interesting... great that they gave all these callers an opportunity to sound off.
2011-06-01 14:46:05
Amazing how people insist on bringing up the annoying experiences they have had with cyclists for this situation where none of that was at play.
2011-06-01 14:48:46
That was pretty good, I just caught the tail end, but it seemed very fair.
Anyone know who the guest caller was, Ken something?
2011-06-01 14:49:26
It is. As an automobile driver I could sound off all day long about other automobile drivers that do dumb and illegal schtuff.
2011-06-01 14:50:14
Exactly. The host did a decent job of moderating and the caller Ken, did a pretty nice job describing why a cyclists would be doing certain things.
2011-06-01 14:52:45
Host is now talking about how it's safer on the trails and we are spending money on the trails so we should use them.
2011-06-01 14:54:47
Another caller asserting bicycles should not be allowed on certain roads.
2011-06-01 14:56:48
Caller rides bikes with his wife... on the trails! Started getting angry, host stopped him, caller goes nuts about paying road taxes, call ends. Ignorance abound! Weeeee!
2011-06-01 14:57:07
My wife got involved the last time a radio host had a segment on bikes. One caller was pissed because cyclists coming downhill on Liberty ave outside Church Brew Works didn't stop for her like any one of the drivers on that 35mph road would ever do that. It's craziness.
2011-06-01 14:58:51
annnnnddd we move to sound off on federal employees.
2011-06-01 15:11:03
edit: too off-topic. never mind.
2011-06-01 15:30:45
I almost hit two kids on bikes today, in Oakland. First off, they were riding on the sidewalk and not the road. Secondly, I was making a right hand turn on green and they were in my blindspot. Lucky for them I wasn't in a hurry. *sigh*
Anyways, people don't understand that there is a difference between bicyclists and stupid college kids on bikes.
2011-06-02 03:15:43
@headloss: That's really interesting. Maybe we (cyclists) don't realize how we look to non-cyclists. Maybe we all look the same to them, and they paint us with the same broad brush in return.
2011-06-02 21:43:29