Thursday, May 31, 2018

Brookfield, Again.


I don't know why I seem to run into so many problem drivers in Brookfield, WI.  I know good people who live there and everyone who drives through there can't be from there so I can't blame it on Brookfield residents I guess, but I can't figure out what it is that gives so many people on the roads of Brookfield such a bad case of "must get in front".
Tuesday evening at about 6:45 the driver of this red Chevy license 494-JTL had the whole oncoming lane available to safely pass and decided to buzz me instead, of course after honking at me. Note to drivers, honking first doesn't entitle you to break traffic laws at will. Sadly what can allow drivers to break traffic laws is a police department and city government that doesn't recognize the rights of cyclist to use the roads.

https://youtu.be/eDW3m5gwnaQ

As some of you may remember from years ago this same city's police department told me that I couldn't legally ride on any of their streets unless I was going the speed limit and their city attorney told me that even if I was going the speed limit I had to pull over to let speeding drivers pass without using the oncoming but lane to do so.

I guess I may have figured out why drivers in Brookfield are so bad when it comes to sharing the road with bicycles.
Just FYI I was riding on the white line and not on the shoulder because I had just hit two very large rocks that I'm surprised didn't flatten my brand new tire and then saw very large nails scattered on the shoulder so moved to avoid the hazards as I'm legally allowed to do.