{"id":713,"date":"2017-09-12T09:32:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T16:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/?p=713"},"modified":"2021-05-22T21:43:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T04:43:00","slug":"focus-on-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.washingtonbikelaw.com\/blog\/focus-on-driving.html","title":{"rendered":"Focus on Driving"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning on my ride to work I noticed a smashed up car pushed off the road along Alki Avenue.<\/p>\n

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Someone had to be driving pretty fast to push a car off the road (or be pushed).<\/p>\n

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As my Nordic-American people say, it could have been worse.\u00a0 In fact, here’s a sign to show how it could have been worse, probably caused in the same crash:<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, rather than focusing on the carnage caused by inattentive and\/or angry motor vehicle drivers, some people<\/a> seem more concerned about this “obnoxious” “visual pollution.”<\/p>\n

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I think we should focus on driving, whether we are the drivers or we are just affected by them.\u00a0 Cars kill. Tipped over bikes… not so much.<\/p>\n

For instance, not much further along my commute, I came upon this car, rapidly backing down the bike path.<\/p>\n

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Let’s keep our eyes on the ball… or our eyes on the cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning on my ride to work I noticed a smashed up car pushed off the road along Alki Avenue. Someone had to be driving pretty fast to push a car off the road (or be pushed). As my Nordic-American people say, it could have been worse.\u00a0 In fact, here’s a sign to show how […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bicycle-advocates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t