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milking my son's disability; bike bitch
Jun. 16th, 2007 07:16 pmBoyboy preferred watching the third Potter movie for the nth time this week to the Solstice parade; le sigh. Rightly or wrongly, I took advantage of his Aspiness to sleep 13 hours out of the last 24. Viva Saturday.
I biked to work in the early afternoon yesterday -- I used the car to dodge the morning rain and do errands. I pass somebody on the sidewalk on 148th going down to Redmond Way, and she yells something at me. I stop at the light, and she catches up to me: a skinny, middle-aged woman with huge square-framed glasses. She tells me to obey the rules of the road and get off the sidewalk. As I told her, 148th has no bike lane and its speed limit is 40. Never mind the slope and the curves. No way, Josefina. Butt-clenchers breed out here in the suburbs, I tell you. That chick wouldn't last ten seconds on any college campus.
Curiosity got the better of me and I looked up bikes in Redmond's municipal code. Riding on the sidewalks is illegal unless a sidewalk has been designated as a combination sidewalk/bike lane. I can find no indication online that 148th has been so designated. I'm not terribly worried, though. As you might imagine, days go by when I see no pedestrians on the mile or so that I ride on the sidewalk each way. As the weather's improved, sidewalk bikers have multiplied.
I biked to work in the early afternoon yesterday -- I used the car to dodge the morning rain and do errands. I pass somebody on the sidewalk on 148th going down to Redmond Way, and she yells something at me. I stop at the light, and she catches up to me: a skinny, middle-aged woman with huge square-framed glasses. She tells me to obey the rules of the road and get off the sidewalk. As I told her, 148th has no bike lane and its speed limit is 40. Never mind the slope and the curves. No way, Josefina. Butt-clenchers breed out here in the suburbs, I tell you. That chick wouldn't last ten seconds on any college campus.
Curiosity got the better of me and I looked up bikes in Redmond's municipal code. Riding on the sidewalks is illegal unless a sidewalk has been designated as a combination sidewalk/bike lane. I can find no indication online that 148th has been so designated. I'm not terribly worried, though. As you might imagine, days go by when I see no pedestrians on the mile or so that I ride on the sidewalk each way. As the weather's improved, sidewalk bikers have multiplied.
