5-21-25 - 6am - Road Diet and Motorcycle Fatalities

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Me or Mikey is trying to claim that Denverson's way
to becoming a very safe city because homicides are down
in the first part of twenty twenty five. What he's
not telling you is that non fatal shootings are actually
up three hundred and forty twenty twenty four versus twenty

(00:21):
twenty five. So it basically means that people are still
shooting a lot, they're just not killing as many people.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Well, that's why we need more uh gun classes so
that people can be more effective when they're shooting everybody. So,
speaking of you know, and the other thing going on
too is cops are you know, not writing up reports?
Cops writing up reports, the statistics are not being reported

(00:52):
to the National.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Crime Yeah, if you don't report it, it's not a cry,
not a crime exactly.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
So speaking of stupidity, which we do a lot on
this program, including ourselves sometimes, I ran across a new
phrase last night while I was doing some last minute
show prep. I was trying to find my you know,
my stupid Michael Brown minute that I do over on
Freedom every Day. Have you ever heard the phrase road
diet road like you know, a highway a street, road

(01:22):
diet that's the headline in the Denver Gazette. Road diet
in Denver sparks worries as East Alameda Avenue project looms
the city of Denver. They write plans to slim down
the flow of cars and trucks along East Alameda Avenue
from four lanes to just too wonder what could possibly

(01:46):
go wrong with that? I mean, we've seen what happened
on Broadway when you take a major thoroughfare into and
out of downtown Denver and you create For those of
you of time down of town or never been on Broadway,
let me explain it. So Broadway is a street that

(02:08):
is I think originally was six lanes, three lanes, both
directions with turn lanes. There were turn lanes, left turn lanes,
and then there were there was parallel parking along the street,
both sides, north, north and southbound parking meters most of it.

(02:31):
Some were just you know signed you know, to our
to our limits, and so you could park in front
of businesses and you can get out and do your
business and get back in your car, and then you
could get on and leave. And it was a major thoroughfare.
I suppose still is a major thoroughfare into and out
of downtown Denver, particularly if you want to move if
you're going southbound and you want to avoid the stupid

(02:53):
curve starting at Broadway, which they've promised for decades to create.
But now we're going to put a women's soccer league
or something there. That curve is never going to go away,
so those backups are always going to occur. So then
they take Broadway and they they keep the parallel parking,

(03:14):
but they move the parallel parking. Imagine you're parking next
to the curb. Well, now you park a car with
away from the curb in that one lane that used
to be a travel lane a driving lane, and where
you used to park is now a bike lane. And

(03:38):
those two lanes are separated by ballards, except that the
ballards end when you start approaching an intersection. So if
you want to turn left, Now Broadway is one direct,
it's it's one way, So if you want to turn
the left, then you have to figure out where the
ballards stop and kind of pull over and then understand that, oh,

(04:01):
there's also a red signal for bikes plus a red
signal for you, and you have to figure out which
is which before you inappropriately make a improper left turn
on red. It's just a stupid idea, and I don't
see that it's done anything except making travel on Broadway
worse and making parking an absolute headache because you sometimes

(04:27):
don't know where to park, and and the bike lanes
are rarely, if ever used, And I mean, it's just stupid,
just stupid. Then I come across this article about a
road diet, and this is simply that, simply, uh pretty
simply the same thing. Uh, let's see where where's it
say it in? The story? Should have highlighted the story,

(04:48):
but I didn't because I was thinking about something else.
The city of Denver plans to slim down the flow
of cars and trucks along East Alameda Avenue from four
lanes of traffic to just to and guess what that
has some residents worried. As the project nears its launch date.
Supporters view the strategies to downsize traffic lanes, called road

(05:11):
diets in transportation planner's parlance, as it means to make
roads safer by cutting down vehicle speeds and creating protected
lanes for left turns. The critics, meanwhile, question the wisdom
of this approach, fearing it will squeeze and back up traffic,
forcing cars into nearby interior roads, and creating dangerous situations there.

(05:37):
I side with the critics. Now I want you to Matt. Now,
another rationale for doing this is to do it on
roads that have high rates of accidents. So you would
think that Alameda Avenue would be a road with a

(05:57):
high rate of accidents. In particular, they look at accidents
that involve deaths. Well, if you scroll down through the story,
you find that. Let's see, according to a twenty nineteen study,
which is obviously quite old, if you're thinking about traffic,
Alameda carries between fifteen and nineteen thousand vehicles per day,

(06:22):
regarded by traffic engineers as too few for four lanes
of traffic. But they're already there. So just because you,
as a traffic engineer, think well that's too many, So
what studies from twenty nineteen. My guess is if it

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was carrying fifteen to nineteen thousand vehicles per day six
years ago, that has since increased and the numbers are higher.
Planners vary in their estimates, some citing nineteen thousand vehicles
as the four lane minimum, others suggesting twenty eight thousand
vehicles as a minimum for four lane Okay, well, either way,

(07:09):
I bet you're somewhere in the ballpark as much as
the Rockies might be in the ballpark. Are they Are
they actually playing in the ballpark or the Rockies playing
out in sand lot somewhere. I'm not quite sure where
the Rocky is. They don't show up, Well, they don't
show they so we don't know where they are. So
then you go further into the story, and somebody knows

(07:30):
that closing down lanes of traffic will make people go
to the side streets When they get frustrated, drivers just
take a short cut and they go fast, which ends
up making them more dangerous. I mean, what kind of
clown is this? What was that guy thinking? I mean,
I don't know if anybody. I can't imagine anybody that
gets stuck in traffic deciding at some point to maybe

(07:53):
I should just get off the road and go a
different direction. Huh. I mean, that's never crossed my mind.
I've never looked at my GPS and thought, Okay, where
does this side road take me? Oh? Okay, well I
think I'll just do that, and I pull off the
next thing I know, I'm going through some residential area
and then I finally get over to the other main
road that I try to get through, and I've saved myself.

(08:13):
Not and even if I haven't saved myself some time,
guess what I've done. I've kept moving, which is what
I would prefer to do as opposed to just sitting.
Then the other thing they're going to do, which I
find incredibly stupid, is they're gonna take of the of
the one of the lanes that they've reduced, and they're
gonna make that into a left turn lane. Now you

(08:33):
know what they do, They make the left turn lane
so that it might hold. Let's just let's be generous.
Five cars waiting to turn left on a street that
carries somewhere between nineteen twenty eight thousand vehicles, so the
I don't know what the percentage is that turns left,
but I bet it's more than five cars at a

(08:54):
time that when a turn left. And so what happens
Those five cars take up the left turn life, and
then the other people they're trying to turn left turn
on their blinkers, but they're in one of the travel lanes.
So now you've backed up to traffic even more. This
is just road diet. I think what it is is
it's a you know, they're kind of like Biden. They've

(09:16):
had too many is it too early to make jokes?
They too many brain aneurysms on these traffic engineers. Then
they get into the idea that you need to do
this in traffic areas where there are a lot of accidents. Well,
guess what. A recent map, a map of traffic fatalities

(09:37):
compiled by an advocacy group using Denver police data, shows
fatalities occurring throughout the city over a ten year span
between twenty fourteen to twenty twenty three. At least it's
somewhat days only, at least, you know, a year and
a half old or so, including a dozen deaths on
East Colfax Avenue and four along a half mile stretch

(10:00):
of stretch of East First Avenue facing Cherry Creek Country Club.
Then the next paragraph says this, Now, remember we're considering
that the amount of traffic, which apparently some engineers say
Alameda is two wide, there aren't enough cars, which is

(10:22):
relying on six year old data, and other engineers say, yeah,
it's probably just about right for four lanes. But the
most critical aspect of determining whether or not you should
put a road on a road diet is the number

(10:42):
of accidents and fatalities. And so I told you that
that you know, there are two other places that are
similar to Alameda Avenue in that they are four lanes
Cherry Creek or I'm sorry, First Avenue Long Cherry Creek
country Club and Colfax Avenue. I can't imagine traffic deaths

(11:05):
and Colfax Avenue what a piece of crap road. Then
the Denver Gazette writes, however, no fatalities register along the
stretch of Alameda targeted by the repurposing project, and they
can't give any Indeed, that stretch shows only four four

(11:29):
serious injury accidents over the last decade. A half mile
west of the zone, a single pedestrian fatality shows as
having taken place along Alameda between heavy traffic South Broadway
and South Lincoln, which if you know that area, that's
usually where the squeegee people are waiting right there to

(11:51):
grab you before you try to get over to Lincoln
or the Broadway. You know they're with the home depot
is that area, and there's a I don't know, a
come and go or a mad breaker or something sitting there.
So this whole road diet idea sounds really stupid to me.
And I think there's an ulterior motive, which I know

(12:11):
you find incredulous, But the interior motive is probably what
make travel by automobile in Denver more difficult, because that
means they are trying to force you out of your cars.
Because that they can force you out of your cars,
then they can force you into RTD, which I don't
know why you would do that, because that just puts

(12:33):
your life in even more danger, you know, writing on
RTD when it seems to me that driving along Alameda
one pedestrian accident in a decade or more, and yet
they want to reduce it because they want to reduce
accidents and fatalities. This is just stupid. And you know
what's going to happen if you think road rage is

(12:55):
bad now, which it is. I bet I see an
incident of roadway road rage probably on average about once
a day from kind of subtle road rage, you know,
where someone's just tailgating you, or to someplace where you
know someone's throwing a bottle at you, or where somebody's
you know waving a gun at you. Why there's a
new law and loan. I gotta find out about apparently

(13:18):
showing your weapon but not actually firing it in a
moment of self defense is no longer brandishing and is
legal to do. I'll check on that and find out
more about that later. But I digress. So all of
that leads me to a story that's been sitting in
my pos for quite some time. The Common Sense Institute

(13:40):
in Colorado is actually, I think one of the good thing.
You know, between them and the Independence Institute, you get
some really good, thoughtful research out of both organizations. Well,
they have one where the headline is traffic enforcement declining

(14:02):
as Colorado motorcycle fatalities peak. Now, I told you earlier
this week, on Monday or Tuesday, that I now had
a heart attack. I'm driving, I think it was. I
was pretty sure. I'm pretty sure I was southbound. No, no,
not to eat that back. I was northbound on I
twenty five out here in the Tech Center, and traffic's moving,

(14:24):
I don't know, maybe thirty thirty five miles an hour.
Excuse me, and it is it's absolutely stopp and go
one of those where you know, I try to maintain
if it's stopping go at thirty five miles an hour.
I try to get a few car links behind the
car in front of me so I don't have to
keep tapping my brakes, so and I can just kind
of coast along it, say thirty miles an hour, whatever

(14:45):
it might be. But in order, you know, inevitably somebody
pulls into that empty space because people are always weaving
in and out. Even though I play this game sometimes, Dragon,
do you ever play this game, like I'll off when
you when you're stuck in rush hour traffic, you're trying
to determine if there is really a lane that's actually
moving faster than you are. Find a particular car, like

(15:08):
maybe there's you know, it's summertime seasons, so everybody's driving
a pickup truck with the camera behind it, or find
a particular you know, semis are not necessarily good because
semis tend to get over in one lane and just
stay there because they know they don't want to keep
shifting gears, so they just stay over in one lane.
But find some unique vehicle that you can readily identify
and then watch and see if it steadily moves faster

(15:30):
than you are ahead of you. That means that lane's
probably moving faster than you are. Then you might want
to move over, of course, and if everybody starts doing nothing,
it's never going to work. Or if suddenly you realize, oh,
the car you're tracking is way behind you, then you
probably all stay in the lane lane that you're in.
But this study raises so many questions. I understand what

(15:52):
they're doing here, and I don't disagree with the conclusions
of the study, but I'd like to see them take
you a little bit further. Here's the introduction. In twenty
twenty four, Colorado recorded one hundred and sixty five motorcyclist's deaths,
the most in a single year in the state's history,
and eleven percent above the next highest year of one

(16:15):
hundred and forty nine deaths, which occurred three years ago.
Which gives me back to the story I was talking about.
Being northbound on I twenty five, so I'm just in
that stop and go traffic, just kind of puttsing along,
trying to watch everybody around me, trying to stay you know,
a few car links behind to the car in front
of me, when all of a sudden, just just this

(16:37):
loud I mean loud, like this is just a tornado
coming at you. And I realized it's a motorcycle game. Now,
I don't mean like Hell's Angels or anything. I just
mean a group of about I would say, ten, maybe
a dozen motorcyclists all weaving in and out of the traffic.

(16:58):
What do you call it, dragon, I forget the two.

Speaker 3 (17:00):
Turns be splitting. If traffic is moving and a motorcycle
is going between the lanes, that is a splitting. So
they're illegal.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
So they're splitting at probably because they're going at least
seventy miles an hour. Well we're all doing thirty five
because they're going at least twice as fast as we are.
And the first you know, three or four pass and
it kind of startles me, and then I kind of
watched them, and then I get startled again because suddenly
now they're doing it on the other side and I
and then I start looking because I'm really curious about

(17:31):
who's next to me right now. Well, there was there
happened to be an eighteen wheeler right next to me,
and then to my right, sorry, to my left, there
were just a couple of ordinary cars, like you know,
there was a sports car, and there was some other
suv next to me, And I'm thinking if any of
us had just very slightly started to, you know, check

(17:52):
our rear view mirror, and we wouldn't have seen them
because they're weaving in and out of the traffic and
we had started to move over, they would have slammed
into us. Whose fault would that be? It's probably questionable
because I would claim I didn't, you know, when I
checked my mirror, turned on my signal, there was nobody there,

(18:13):
but they were coming up so fast, boom they run
into me. The tragic increase in fatalities among motorcyclists coincides
with a troubling trend in Colorado's traffic enforcement and citizens'
adherence to driving regulations. No fec Sherlock. Well, guess what

(18:35):
they say.

Speaker 4 (18:36):
Next, Michael, talking about them slimming down the traffic. Have
you looked into the coal Fax mass transit bull crap?
Four lanes of traffic down to two with a mass
transit train running in the middle. How bad can this go?

(18:58):
I live off of coal fat and already the traffic
is horrendous and cars are spilling into the neighborhoods, making
life miserable. They are such morons.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Thank you for your honor. I'd like to introduce into
evidence exhibit A that talk back, because that's exactly what
happens with cole facts. And if you know, for example,
I probably know the Capitol Hill area a little better
than I do other parts along Coal Fax, So I
too have done exactly what people are predicting happens along Alameda,

(19:32):
and that is traffic gets really bad. And so depending
on where I'm going or what I'm doing, I may
just make a turn on to Washington or Corona or somewhere,
and I'll just take one of the side streets and
off us get to where I'm going, because my purpose
is just to keep moving. Isn't that the purpose of driving?
To get from point A to point B and to

(19:54):
keep moving. And sometimes sometimes it might take longer, but
in my feeble brain, as long as I'm moving, I'm
making progress.

Speaker 3 (20:01):
Not to be a Debbie Downer here, but it's not
like another Caitlin Weaver thing could happen if somebody trying
to go super fast through a neighborhood.

Speaker 2 (20:08):
No, that's that's just actually that's not even a Debbie downo.
That's exactly. The point dragon is that people are gonna
get frustrated. They're gonna be like, like, you don't want
to make they do this. They create the left turn lane.
You don't want to turn left, you want to keep
going straight, but you can't because five cars in front
of you are behind the five cars that are in

(20:30):
the left turn lane, all with their blinkers on hopefully
indicating they want to turn left, and nobody's moving while
you wait for the stupid light to turn. And of
course the light, the green arrow will come on, and
what will they do. It'll let three of the five
cars make a left turn lane. So people will finally

(20:51):
get mad and they'll get upset, and they'll make it
right into the neighborhood and go around that intersection and
then get back on D Alameda, just like they're doing.
Call Facts Mall and then can you imagine? I wonder
how many pet pedestrian accidents will have when they put
the RTD rail through the center of Coal Facts and
people are trying to walk across Coal Facts. Have you

(21:14):
tried to do that lately? Occasionally we'll go to there's
an old like nineteen fifty steakhouse on Colefax called Bastions,
and we'll go there every once in a while just
you know, it's it's just kind of a it's like
walking back into Vegas in the fifties or something, and
they have good steaks, and so occasionally we'll go down
there and go to it. Well, occasionally we park across

(21:37):
the street because our parking lot might be full, or
we park back in the neighborhood, and of course then
we use the neighborhood streets to avoid trying to get
back on the Colefax and go over where we can
jump on to say Washington, to drive down to or
Downing and eventually get down to. So it's this is
all stupid. Back to the Common Sense Institute's report, this

(22:02):
concerning pattern about an increase in motorcycle accidents comes now,
They say it comes about as we have less and
less cops doing traffic enforcement. When I read that, I
thought to myself, maybe that is why do you have

(22:25):
all of these local police jurisdictions consistently, constantly and incessantly
posting on Facebook, Oh look I just pulled over somebody
doing you know, sixty five miles an hour in a
thirty five miles an hour zone, or I just caught
somebody on Highway eighty five doing one hundred miles an
hour in a seventy five mile zone, or whatever it

(22:46):
might be. But they're so proud of themselves, and I'm thinking,
what are you trying to prove? Do you think the
people that are speeding are going to look at a
post on Facebook and go, oh, well, she's in. But
I don't not speed anymore because they might put me
up on Facebook. It's so stupid. This concerning pattern of

(23:07):
increasing motorcycle deaths against the backdrop of declining vehicle registrations,
particularly from motorcycles, suggesting that more unregistered vehicles may be
operating on Colorado roads. And that's where I stopped, and
I said, that's the problem you have, how many illegal

(23:30):
aliens And let's let's let's be fair to illegal aliens here.
It's not just illegal aliens, it's people that just don't
register their cars without even having a tag on it
or this. This has nothing to do with unregistered vehicles.

(23:52):
But yesterday I saw some porschemuck that had probably just
bought a new used vehicle for them. It was, but
it was a used vehicle, and I knew it was
a used vehicle, because it was it was there were
dense in its so yeah, they got it off some
car lot somewhere. But it was in the middle of

(24:14):
Santa Fe Drive, which you know, near near I'll to
meet it, ironically, in the middle lane, waiting for a
tow truck. The tow truck had just pulled up, was
backing up to tow it away. I thought, Wow, you
haven't had your car for the thirty day period of
whatever it is for a paper tag, and it's already
getting told because it's already broken down. But I digress.

(24:38):
Common sense continues simultaneously. Traffic enforcement has plummeted by more
than half since twenty eighteen. Now I'm not quite sure
where they got that information of that data, but I
take it at face value. Traffic enforcement has plummeted by
more than half since twenty eighteen, creating conditions where risky

(25:00):
driving behaviors potentially go unchecked. That divergence, they rite is
striking fewer registered motorcycles on the road, yet substantially more
related fatalities. So if there are but wait a minute.
Colorado recorded one hundred and sixty five motorcyclist deaths in

(25:21):
twenty twenty four, the most in a single year in
our entire history, and eleven percent above the high the
next highest year, which was back in twenty twenty two.
Now nowhere, let's see they give a county by county,
not all counties, but I guess just the top counties

(25:42):
of change in the number of registered passenger vehicles and
motorcycles between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty four. One of
the highest is Denver. Motorcycle registrations are down over twenty
five percent. A Rapole County is down by twenty Bouldered
by nineteen percent, Atoms down by twelve percent. Let's see

(26:04):
another high one layer, oh Jefferson down by seventeen percent.
So the number of registered motorcycles is decreasing. The number
of registered motorcycles, But does that necessarily mean that there's
been a decrease in the number of registered or the
number of motorcycles registered or unregistered on the highways and

(26:29):
the byways and the roadways. Don't necessarily know if that's true.
They write, the substantial decrease in registered motorcycles across Colorado
presents a concerning contradiction when viewed alongside rising fatality rates.
Between twenty eighteen and twenty four, motorcycle registrations decline by
eight point nine percent statewide, despite the driving age population

(26:53):
growing by six point four percent during that same period.
They write this divergence suggests an increase some unregistered motorcycles
operating on Colorado roads. If motorcycle registration statewide had kept
pace with the six point four percent increase in Colorado's
driving age population, there would be an estimated thirty thousand

(27:14):
more registered motorcycles in the state in twenty twenty four.
But they never address are there actually more. I don't
know that. I don't know if they can find this out.
So I'm not criticizing. I'm just saying they don't address it.
I'm just making a statement of fact. Maybe there are
more motorcycles on the road, they're just not registered. Maybe

(27:37):
there are more vehicles on the road, which there are,
but they're just not registered. And maybe some of those
unregistered vehicles are driven by illegal aliens that don't understand
or don't care about for example, the killed that killed
Caitlin Weaver. They don't care about anything about the rules
of the road. And then you add on that my bugaboo,

(28:00):
which is the new filtering law. This was passed by
the legislature Senate Bill twenty four oh seven nine. It
became effective last August August seven, of twenty twenty four.
It allows motorcyclists to pass between stopped vehicles under specific conditions,
but it does not legalize lanes splitting, as Dragon points out,

(28:22):
which is passing between moving vehicles, which is what I
always observe. That's what they always do. Now interesting they
The law is set to expire September of twenty seven,
unless extended because in the meantime, sea DOT is going
to collect safety data to report to the legislature by
January one of twenty seven on the impact including rear

(28:46):
end and side swipe collisions. So under the new filtering law,
the traffic has to be completely stopped in the rider's lane,
and the adjacent lanes moving all moving in the same
direction have to be wide enough to allow safe passage
of the motorcycle. I'm telling you that's just simply not true.
And what I observed there was not, I mean safe passage.

(29:08):
That's that what is that that's not an objective standard,
that that's a total subjective standard. Because the space is
also relevant based on your speed, whether the traffic's moving
or not, and I don't care what you know. The
The other thing I find interesting is if you have
rush hour traffic and the motorcycles are doing the splitting,

(29:34):
they're they're they're driving through the traffic. They're not I
never get that right, splitting out there, they're splitting. Uh.
A cop sees that. Now they've got to turn on
their lights and sirens. They've got to try to get
traffic to move out of their way so they can

(29:55):
go catch a motorcycle that is, you know, splitting down
the lane. And if they see the lights come on,
they can easily take an exit and disappear and never
be seen again. And what's the cop going to do?
Not a damn thing. Everything that we seem to be
doing in Colorado in terms of traffic, roads and highways

(30:19):
all starts with the premise that Jared Polus and the
Democrats the Marxists want to get us out of our cars.
Maybe they want to get us into motor onto motorcycles instead,
but they definitely want us out of our cars. They
want to make traveling by vehicle more and more difficult,
and quite frankly, in the process of doing so more

(30:40):
and more dangerous. So not only do we have to
now understand lane splitting, all of that crap lane filtering,
lane splitting, Now you have to think about road diets,
a road diet. I don't need no stinking road diet.

Speaker 5 (30:57):
Hey, Michael and Dragon Michael's the registration of motorcycles dropping
makes sense because if we have a higher death rate
of motorcyclists, clearly they're not needing to register their motorcycle anymore.
So if that goes up, then registration goes down pretty
good balance. And I thought we didn't care about motorcyclists
because we've passed laws allowing filtering. We knew that would

(31:20):
end in deaths anyway, So I'm not concerned about it.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
Legislatures not.

Speaker 5 (31:25):
I'm a good one, guys.

Speaker 2 (31:27):
I love that so and this is so true. Eighty
three seventy eight rites, Mike. In my area of Wadsworth
and Bellevue and Wadsworth and Bold, people take matters into
their own hands. Once that left turn Arrold turns red,
three more cars go through. YEP. Now imagine that you're

(31:49):
on Alameda and they've done that. They've taken one of
the lanes, turned it into a left turn lane, and
not only do you have the problem of the left
turn lane is not long enough to accommodate you know,
the average number of cars that would want to turn
left to any particular intersection, but it's not enough. And
so now you've been in that lane and you're just waiting,

(32:12):
waiting for it to turn green. And then it turns green,
and then the person at the head of the line
just slowly turns, and the next person trying to speed up,
the next person trying to speed up, and then pretty
soon you got an accident, and then the person's behind you.
If there's not an accident, you're right, they just blow
through anyway because the oncoming traffic sees that everybody's continuing

(32:35):
to turn even though they've got a green light. How
many times have you done this? There's a green light,
you know that you have the right of way, but
you still see cars turning left on that red arrow
because you know it's red because you have a green light,
unless there's a malfunction, which is highly unlikely. Uh five

(32:55):
seven five nine. Michael October two fifteen had a similar
experience on Sunday while driving back from leaf viewing. White
and I were in on the ramp from Highway six
to Die seventy east, somewhere between one hundred to one
hundred and fifty crops rockets weaving between all lanes of
traffic at easily one hundred plus miles per hour. I
saw them coming and told my wife to hang on.
It's about to get scary. Motorcycles were missing cars by inches.

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All I could do was just keep my car moving
steadily between the pain as even a flinch could have
been disastrous. Yep, and you know what, we legalize it,
Hugh uh ninety one seventy seven. Michael, you're hitting on
my top pet peeve. My blood boils when I see

(33:37):
this new trend. These new California style motorcycle driving actions
are incredibly dangerous, and I worry that if I start
to change lanes in a reasonably responsible way because I
don't see them coming at a fast rate of speed,
and they slam it in my car as I do so,
I will be found at fault for their death. But
no police seem to be catching them in the act.

(33:58):
Are they do? You know? I've never seen it. In fact,
I don't know, and maybe I just don't pay attention,
which is probably true. I see cars pulled over a lot.
Oh man, don't get me started on that one too.
About slow down or pull over, it's pull over if

(34:19):
you can, if you can't slow down, Why does everybody
think you have to pull over? You do not have
to pull over anyway. My point is, I see lots
of cars stop along side of the road by cops,
but I don't know that I've ever ever seen a
motorcycle pulled over on the side of the road. I
guess that means that motorcyclist never speed and they never

(34:40):
avidlate any traffic laws. So we should just all ride motorcycles.
We should be like you know, Bangkok,