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I hear you and could not agree more. A bicyclist clips a trailer when she turned onto a highway from a side road and the hue and cry is amazing. 'Oh we must do something about the bicyclists-share the road, etc" The paper went into great detail about who she was and her family, etc.

A woman in an SUV pulls out from a side street crossing a major higway and a BMW 1200 T-bones her. The paper noted he was wearing a helmet. The paper never mentioned he had 3 children, was a EE and had worked at Dell since it was founded-in other words apparently a good citizen.

I wasn't there and I can't say for sure, but I see bicycle riders zip through stop signs like they don't exist and clipping a trailer of a vehicle that had the right of way is suspicious, in my mind.

Two people are dead and that's a shame but the Cit of Austin spends millions on special lanes for bicycles-and I have nothing against that. The only time they do something for the motorcycles is like last week during the Republic of Texas Rally that brought 250,000 people and 40,000 motorcycles to town( and bunches of dollars). They put a "share the road -motorcycles are everywhere" on the Amber Alert signs.

Yeah, we are second class citizens.