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<\/a><\/p>\nto this<\/a> sad new item:<\/p>\n Instead of using inflammatory rhetoric or vehicles as weapons, people who drive and people who ride should both try to actually help each other out.<\/a><\/p>\n How do we do that?\u00a0 It’s easy.\u00a0 Here’s one example.\u00a0 Often, when I am at a stop light on my bike, a car will pull up behind me wanting to make a right turn on red.\u00a0 I move over to the left and frequently get a “thank you” or a thumbs up.\u00a0 Once, however, I almost got hit by a car sprinting out in the left lane as the light turned green, so be careful being nice…<\/p>\n Yesterday, at a dangerous intersection for bicyclists underneath the West Seattle Bridge, I prevented a head-on collision between two cars.\u00a0 The area looks like this:<\/p>\n It’s frequently dicey for bicyclists in the crosswalk on the left, because cars come around the bend at a high speed and many drivers don’t expect a crosswalk or just don’t believe that they have a duty to yield to bicyclists in it.\u00a0 I always slow down and stick my neck out to look left before crossing.<\/p>\n As I was doing this, I saw a rental car enter this one-way street from my right.\u00a0 There is a sign that says do not enter:<\/p>\n But there is also this, much larger, sign before it:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n