Time For Honesty

I've seen the dumper stickers: "Share the road." I laugh every time I read that b.s. In the video above, as I passed the bicyclist I yelled "use the sidewalk!" I don't care if that pisses off bicyclists. How about instead of "share the road," it should be "follow the laws of the road." Just this morning I saw a bicyclist riding on Speer just before University, even though there is a bicyclist sidewalk specifically for bicyclists there. When traffic stopped at the light I notice that this didn't stop him from proceeding down the road in-between cars. The simple fact is that bicyclists riding on the road with cars are hazards. They never follow the rules, riding through stop signs and in-and-out of traffic. They ride on the road and slow down traffic and are, well, to be honest, a nuisance. It's time laws are passed making it illegal for bicyclists to be on the road, especially if there are sidewalks there they can use.

 

That's my two cents.

What Have I Always Said?

"Where ever you have to go is none more important than where I have to go."

 

I took this video on March 5, 2014 on I-25 as I entered onto the highway from Alameda. I had already merged onto the highway when I noticed a car in the merge lane behind me not making any attempt to merge. Instead, she went to the end of the lane and tried to bully her way in. Her plan would have worked IF I wasn't there. I am perfectly happy to let people merge if they make an attempt to merge before the end of the lane. The lady driving this car, however, had made it clear she was going to the end of the lane to butt her way ahead of all the other people who had already merged and were now patiently waiting for traffic to move.

 

The best part about this video is that this day at work was rough, everything seemed to be coming apart around me, and it's my job to fix it, so when I met this person on the highway, denying her her chance of butting in line was just what I needed to perk me up.

Why?

Many people ask why I have a camera mounted in my car. Part of the answer to that question is because if I were to witness an encounter like this, I would, possibly, have the person's license plate number on film, in which case I would gladly notify the police. Another answer to that question is for my own safety. If someone were to run into me and then try and blame me for causing the accident, I would, again, have everything on film.

CDOT Incompetence?

I included this video here because, well, frankly I'm pissed. Now CDOT has been making it a point, it would seem, to piss people off while at the same time just doing a shitty job at just about everything they do, and the construction on 6th avenue lately is a perfect example of this.

 

Everything needs fixing and improving however, the construction on 6th avenue could have been done, well, with a little more thought. Why close down that huge swath of highway? Why not break the project into first taking down the bridge and/or repairing them, then moving onto whatever they are doing further down the road closer to I-25? It would be much less of a cluster fuck, let me tell you. Further more, the road is now a 4-wheel road, full of potholes and bumps, so driving home in my little Honda is a trip, to say the least.

 

So CDOT, in my opinion, you fucked it up yet again! Good job! Oh, and by the way, I'm no engineer and have no experience in construction, but I could have planned that project better, so if you need some advice let me know, I have five minutes I could put forth, that's about all it would take to do at least a better planning job then the effort thus far shown.

 

With all that is going on with highway 36, the construction on 6th avenue is making me think that maybe CDOT is turning it into a toll road as well, plans they won't reveal until the very last second? I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

This video speaks for itself

WARNING: I dropped the f-bomb in this video, but I think it's justified.

ROFL

So I posted something to Craigslist about my blog a few days ago and didn't go back to look at the Rants and Raves section until today, and well, apparently I missed some back-and-forth about what I had to say:

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What's your beef, dude? The OP's got a point, I hate driving in Denver anymore. No where does it say he took the video as you would so accuse, he might of had a camera mounted on his field hat like the falconry apprentice dude. Besides, he could be doing some shooting with something else besides a camera which seems to be the modern trend but where does the whole pedestrian and parking garages come in? It's uncool to make up things to make some obscure point.

Over all I thought the videos were silly. Why I actually watched a video on traffic I'll never know, perhaps it was the intriguing and suspenseful music that made me think he was going to hop a curb and drive like a mad man on the sidewalk for a hundred yards, but that didn't happen.

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Dude, your blog sucks. Bad/"insane"/unsafe drivers are everywhere. You're one of them because you record video while driving. Do you really think you're the only one that has to deal with the ineptitude of others? Be thankful you're not trapped in a southern state where virtually no one knows how to drive in snowy conditions. Also, slow down when you're driving through parking garages (and elsewhere, for that matter)! The pedestrians you see probably enjoy having functional legs and would like to keep them that way."

Again, thanks for going to my blog. And while the original poster thought my blog sucked, he mistook me for someone who cares what his opinion is. Beyond that, I got over 200 hits that day so... All-in-all, I got a good laugh over these postings. Denverites, you never cease to make me laugh...or cry, depending on whether I'm on the road driving or not.

-The Longhorn

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