Thursday, June 16, 2011

Defending Running A Red Light

From The Oregonian online

Road rage files: Portland bicyclist defends running red light

Published: Wednesday, June 15, 2011, 8:43 AM

By Joseph Rose, The Oregonian

Here’s an interesting (and by interesting, I mean chain-grease crazy and clueless) piece of correspondence from the Portland Road Rage Files:

On Monday, a Southwest Portland bicycle commuter emailed the city to say that he knows his daily route so well that he should be allowed to ignore red lights along the way.

Apparently, the email arrived in city Traffic safety and Livability inbox after what sounds like a pretty scary encounter with the driver of a big truck that morning.

It was then passed it on to Portland police Traffic Division Capt. Todd Wyatt, who omitted the names before passing it on to me:

Read on here.

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