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So you biked unsafely AND you didn't stop to help someone? I can see why you'd want to stay anonymous, butthole.

That stretch is dangerous enough (and getting more dangerous by the month due to development) without cyclists contributing to the problem with aggressive passing.

It would be a way better commute out there for both drivers and cyclists if both stopped to consider priorities before doing something unsafe for the sake of getting home two minutes faster.

2
I hope you ride over an open sewer hole, I,A.
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@2:

he or she apologized, and vowed to keep calm in the future.....plus, they weren't even sure that they really were the cause of the crash.....

i think this person has done as much as can be done after the fact and shows some integrity by still feeling like an asshole after 2 days have passed and then confessing here.....what more is there?

most of us assholes wouldn't even feel guilty, let alone admit that we were pointlessly and carelessly in the wrong and that henceforth we will try to be more considerate.....
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Human in training, you really are in training. What more is there? I suggest stopping to check on a person you may have hurt. Who you knocked to the ground within feet of speeding cars.

This person is an ass in a way that one anonymous letter won't take care of.
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People go SO FUCKING SLOW up Williams on their bikes. Sometimes it's like a rolling roadblock, with riders two abreast and all over the road,(because they are going so slow). I pass people all the time but do so only when safe and make it clear to the riders I am overtaking that I am indeed doing so.

Also, "On your left" does NOT mean swerve to the left like a frightened child, it means someone is trying to get around your slow ass.
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blabby -- of course you're correct about that -- but my sentence there started with 'AFTER THE FACT'.....meaning we can't go back in time to right things, so feeling guilty, promising to do better in the future, and writing an anonymous apology are about as much as can be done AT THIS POINT, and that is better than nothing.....

it makes this person slightly less of an asshole.....

but, yes -- clearly these things don't make up for the original failure -- i don't dispute that.
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N. Williams/Vancouver is complete clusterfuck just waiting for an even more terrible accident. The combination of several bus routes, commuters using it as an alternative to I-5 North, people trying to get on or off 405 at N Cook, pedestrians crossing near the new restaurants north of Fremont, and a ton of bicyclists and you have a recipe for disaster. I used to live over there and it's pretty much impossible to get across Williams/Vancouver in the morning without cutting out in front of someone at high speeds due to the lack of stop signs/signals at N Cook. The buses usually have to stop in the middle of the street because of the number of bicylists on the route--and I'm not blaming them--but maybe the city should think twice about trying to turn the corridor into a "Bicylcle Superhighway" in addition to a main transit route. It's just going to get worse when the New Seasons opens. I used to ride my bike on Williams--but it's more enjoyable to just ride a block over these days.

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