Alexandria Police Ticket Bicyclists

[Steve Palincsar]

Erin McMahon wrote:
>
> I totally agree.  I would like to see a motorist ticketed for honking 
> at bicyclists because they feel like we should get out of the road to 
> let them pass.  For some reason cars always think we should be riding 
> the edge of the curb!  Also I'd like to see a few tickets for not 
> using their turn signals.  I have been hit twice from cars that decide 
> to make a right at an intersection at the last minute - in one case 
> the woman was actually reading a book and talking on her cell phone!

I had a motorist honk at me because I stopped did not run the red light 
on Madison at 15th, directly in front of the Washington Monument.  He 
wanted to make the left turn and I was blocking him.  As it happened, a 
police car was right there, and before I knew it,  a cop had gotten out 
of the car and gave him a stern lecture about how he needed to share the 
road, not honk at cyclists, and also by the way the color "red" meant 
STOP in the District of Columbia.  It really made my day, I can tell you!