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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Al Griffin always good. I know

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Speaker 2: it's a Friday night, and when alas in that is

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Speaker 2: for sure. A does a lot of friday and also

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Speaker 2: weekend work. So I would like to talk tonight. And

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Speaker 2: I think this is a cautionary tale. But I was

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Speaker 2: from the gym, I noticed there were a lot of

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Speaker 2: people out driving bike riding bikes. There were more people

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Speaker 2: a lot of people out, not a problem. So at

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Speaker 2: one point I was coming out of a side road

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Speaker 2: toward a major you know, not a not a highway,

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Speaker 2: you have to be very careful. You have to make

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Speaker 2: sure you look to the right, look to the left.

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Speaker 2: I looked to the left, looked to the right, and

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Speaker 2: I'm kind of an older guy. This guy was really

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Speaker 2: he was coming downhill and he was flying and I

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Speaker 2: I hit him. I mean, he just was going way

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Speaker 2: the last thing you want to do as a driver

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Speaker 2: the bicyclists who are out today, in my opinion, had

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Speaker 2: But if I hadn't checked my mirror. They would have

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Speaker 2: of this stuff now. I don't know if any of

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Speaker 2: going to open up the lines six one, seven, two, five, four,

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Speaker 2: want to just kind of put a finishing touch on

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Speaker 2: but they're getting pretty close to starting those those peace

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Speaker 2: negotiations over in Islamaban Pakistan of Islamabad, Pakistan, where the

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Speaker 2: Vice president as well as other negotiators from the Trump

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Speaker 2: Trump administration and the Trump negotiators. And then tonight I

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Speaker 2: maybe the favorite dog that you've had in life, and

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Speaker 2: So that kind of sets the program out for the night.

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Speaker 3: You're on Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's

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Speaker 2: Welcome back everyone. Just a couple other points I want

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Speaker 2: to mention before we go to phone calls. The only

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Speaker 2: line open right now was the six one, seven, nine, three,

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Speaker 2: cab drivers, individual drivers. We've survived a pretty tough winter, uh,

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Speaker 2: and people are now looking forward to maybe not dealing

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Speaker 2: January and February and march. Uh. But now you have

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Speaker 2: throwing into the mix, like overnight. You have the bikes.

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Speaker 2: The bicycle drivers, most of whom had put, thank goodness,

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Speaker 2: out of practice. So the bike riders, please obey the

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Speaker 2: let's try to be respectful of everyone. Everybody. Everybody needs

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Speaker 2: to be respectful. That's the point that I'm trying to

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Speaker 2: try to make. Maureen and Brighton, Hi, Mareen, how are

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Speaker 4: Hi Dan, thanks to picking my call. I hope you're well.

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Speaker 2: I hopes I am very well. I hope you are

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Speaker 2: as well. Say hi to your brother Tom for me

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Speaker 2: and your husband and everybody in Brockton. I know Brockton

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Speaker 4: The way, right, And that's why I was calling. So

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Speaker 4: I signed out back in November. They awaken one to

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Speaker 4: eighty and I'm in the maintenance. But what I do

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Speaker 4: but it bothers me for a pedestrian, who you know,

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Speaker 4: aware of your area, just you know, I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Maybe you know I'm old and maybe I'm just you know,

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Speaker 2: Bet you you're not old. Come on, you might be

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Speaker 2: old there, but you're not old. I mean, I'm on.

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Speaker 4: The wrong side of fifty, as you would say, so yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Right, but there's a lot of places on the wrong

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Speaker 4: Okay, I'm on the wrong side of sixty. How's that sound?

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Speaker 2: Well, you don't look at you go ahead, go ahead?

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Speaker 4: Oh yes, so kind But it just like I said,

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Speaker 4: would think that would be the same I would I

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Speaker 4: would hope that a bicyclist. I mean, I know that

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Speaker 4: you've had such horror stories and why people feel like

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Speaker 4: so nothing is going to hurt me. And it's just

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Speaker 4: I mean, I would be the same way if I

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Speaker 4: did I just see somebody? But yeah, well, well I think.

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Speaker 2: I think the bicyclists have been given uh that thought

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Speaker 2: has been implanted in their minds. You know, they now

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Speaker 2: and they have a very effective lobby. They If anybody

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Speaker 4: There are some, you know, so it's the you know,

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Speaker 2: We're talking about the arrival of the spring, which I

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Speaker 2: think happened today. If you got out and you moved around,

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Speaker 2: you have again bicycles and scooters and mope heads, and

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Speaker 2: So I'm just saying that this weekend, particularly Tomorrow and Sunday,

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Speaker 3: Thank you Dan.

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Speaker 5: I get a bike story for you. Seven years ago,

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Speaker 3: I got thrown ten or fifteen feet in the air.

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Speaker 1: I came down half on the roof, half on.

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Speaker 2: I got up and the lead Were you so you

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Speaker 3: She drove like Stirbridge with no license with a ten

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Speaker 3: Empty comes but to put the Johnson column on me?

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Speaker 2: Where were you? Were you in Boston somewhere?

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Speaker 1: No, this is this wasn't taunting.

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Speaker 2: Helipad. I'm biguring you something. No, no, no, no.

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Speaker 3: And so basically all the traffic stopped this two o'clock.

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Speaker 1: Would he hit me?

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Speaker 3: I watched over. They put a drowns and collar on me.

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Speaker 3: They proceeded to cut my cants off, like hey, I

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Speaker 3: And instead of taking me down to the helipad flying

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Speaker 3: Well, I got a cut on my head and my

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Speaker 3: As good as I can? You know, I I definitely

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Speaker 2: We still ride a bike? Do you still ride about?

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Speaker 3: I do have one, I really haven't ridden it for

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Speaker 2: I can.

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Speaker 3: I'm in a bad spot between Boston colle and Boston

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Speaker 2: Are you able to work? You did this cost you

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Speaker 3: Let's put I was on disability so and on the

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Speaker 2: Did you end up suing for medical malpractice.

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Speaker 3: Because you see, yeah, the lead the leady didn't have

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 3: To be honest with I never never really, you know,

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Speaker 2: the statue limitations maybe? Yeah. So okay, well, I'm sorry

435
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Speaker 2: to hear that. And boy, that's I thought you were

436
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Speaker 2: going to tell me that that you ruined her car

437
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 2: and you somehow survived it.

438
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Speaker 3: But it sounds to me like she thought she saw

439
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,199
Speaker 3: me coming back from the dead, coming to haunt her

440
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Speaker 3: live and then persona and you know.

441
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Speaker 2: Get better, get better and get get some form of

442
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Speaker 2: you know, rehabilitation going on here? Do you do physical

443
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Speaker 2: rehab or something like that?

444
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:22,440
Speaker 3: I did for a while.

445
00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:26,600
Speaker 2: And that's a that's a tough story. I'm sorry to

446
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:28,200
Speaker 2: hear that you had to that you went through that.

447
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Speaker 4: Thanks Dave, Okay, thank you okay.

448
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:36,240
Speaker 2: That is again for all of you who are bike riders.

449
00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:37,800
Speaker 2: I mean, you get hit by a car and it

450
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,960
Speaker 2: does it does some damage, no question about it, and

451
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Speaker 2: you you know it sounds you know, I know you

452
00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,440
Speaker 2: want don't race the don't race the car through the

453
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Speaker 2: light if the car is bigger than the bike. Maria

454
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Speaker 2: in Plymouth, Maria next on nice side. Thanks for calling in.

455
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,119
Speaker 2: Hi Dan, Hi Maria, welcome.

456
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Speaker 7: I just had a couple of car on it. But

457
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Speaker 7: I was thinking when I was a kid, we actually

458
00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:08,080
Speaker 7: had I can remember the police station having bicycle training,

459
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 7: like we went and had like a little class.

460
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Speaker 2: How yeah, it'll get a little license plate, little license

461
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:15,800
Speaker 2: plate to hang off the back.

462
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Speaker 4: Good.

463
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Speaker 7: Actually, yes did. And the second thing is my parents

464
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:25,000
Speaker 7: taught us to ride against the traffic. And I never

465
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Speaker 7: feel safe riding with the traffic, so I just ride

466
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:30,200
Speaker 7: on like bike trails and things like that. I don't

467
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,119
Speaker 7: ride on the where the traffic.

468
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Speaker 2: I will tell you this, Yeah, I will tell you

469
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Speaker 2: this many years ago.

470
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Speaker 7: The traffic seems safer to me because I can I

471
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Speaker 7: feel responsible. I see a car coming, I feel responsible.

472
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Speaker 7: I can move over when they're behind me. I can't

473
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Speaker 7: move over. I don't see them common and I don't

474
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Speaker 7: trust them.

475
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Speaker 2: I agree with you totally. I've never been a big

476
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,440
Speaker 2: bike rider, but I used to run quite a bit

477
00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 2: in the the the the eighties and nineties and into

478
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Speaker 2: the two thousands, and I was living out in the

479
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,440
Speaker 2: in the verbs. We lived in Sherburne and there's some

480
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 2: great running roads out there, but they're not particularly wide.

481
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,120
Speaker 2: I always ran against the traffic. I wanted to see

482
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,159
Speaker 2: what was coming at me, not to not to be

483
00:27:17,280 --> 00:27:20,879
Speaker 2: blind to what was coming from behind me. And you

484
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 2: know that's same principles.

485
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Speaker 7: Yeah, the bike riders now they treat them more like

486
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 7: they're a vehicles instead of.

487
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Speaker 3: I don't know, a toy.

488
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Speaker 2: I guess you can have a problem vehicles, Yeah, well

489
00:27:37,640 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 2: you can have a problem with with a bike rider

490
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 2: coming behind you as well, not only a car cancide.

491
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,280
Speaker 2: So I feel there's plenty of stories about the joggers

492
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Speaker 2: who are who have been hit by cars that car,

493
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:50,879
Speaker 2: you know, has to swerve out of the way, but

494
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,399
Speaker 2: also bicyclist coditch as well. I just think that the

495
00:27:54,560 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 2: roads need to be shared, people need to be careful.

496
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Speaker 2: I'm not somebody who feels that these these bike lanes

497
00:28:05,359 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 2: are good. It gives it gives a false confidence to

498
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Speaker 2: a lot of the bicyclists. And as a matter of fact,

499
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,959
Speaker 2: in Boston, if you ever drive around the Common, they

500
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:19,560
Speaker 2: had these barriers, these Jersey barriers, or these these poles

501
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 2: that theoretically there are to protect the bike riders. But again,

502
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:29,119
Speaker 2: sometimes a car can lose control. And you hear these stories.

503
00:28:29,119 --> 00:28:32,400
Speaker 2: I mean, you hear drivers every bike riders. You hear

504
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 2: every year that some truck was taking a right, some

505
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 2: big Dean wheeler and they were trying to get past

506
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 2: the eighteen wheeler on their right and it just was

507
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 2: too late.

508
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Speaker 7: And yeah, I'm curious as to when they started the

509
00:28:46,800 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 7: idea of riding with the traffic and who started that.

510
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,560
Speaker 7: It just seems it's always crazy to me.

511
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Speaker 2: I'm with you, I don't know who started it. I

512
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 2: don't know if it started in this part of the

513
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Speaker 2: country or uh some in you know, there's parts of

514
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,680
Speaker 2: the country like Arizona where the roads are really wide,

515
00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 2: the weather for the most part of the year is

516
00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 2: really easy. That they have their storms and all of that.

517
00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:14,280
Speaker 2: But here in New England, I mean, the lot of

518
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 2: the roads are cowpats. We all know that in Boston.

519
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:22,120
Speaker 2: But anyway, yeah, well no, that's it. That's it. That's

520
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 2: the other one. If you're a bike rider and you

521
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 2: hit a bicyclist, then you hit a pothole. That can

522
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 2: be a big problem as well. All right, I'm gonna

523
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:31,360
Speaker 2: let you. I will let you go. Maria. Thanks for

524
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 2: calling in. I hope you have a great weekend. Whatever

525
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 2: you're gonna do, get out and enjoy it. I hope

526
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 2: everyone gets out and enjoys it, but they do it carefully.

527
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Speaker 4: Thanks Maria, you too, Thank you.

528
00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:43,760
Speaker 2: Talk soon, coming right back on night saying we will

529
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 2: wrap the hour. If you want to try to sneak

530
00:29:45,640 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 2: one more in here, feel free six one seven four

531
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Speaker 2: thirty six seven, nine thirty. We are going to talk

532
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 2: about and set you up with an hour after ten o'clock.

533
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:00,959
Speaker 2: Everybody in the line now will get you when I promise,

534
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 2: but we will be talking about the peace talks that

535
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 2: are going to be going on. Actually they're probably going

536
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:11,920
Speaker 2: to be beginning within the hour or so because Islamabad

537
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:16,840
Speaker 2: it is already Saturday in Islamabad, well into Saturday, and

538
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:20,000
Speaker 2: it's important that we keep you up to date on

539
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:23,000
Speaker 2: that story. We'll do that in the ten o'clock hour,

540
00:30:23,080 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 2: and then we're going to talk about dogs and the

541
00:30:25,680 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 2: eleven o'clock hour subject that all everyone I think has

542
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 2: an opinion. We'll be back on Nightside right after this.

543
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Speaker 1: It's night Side with Ray.

544
00:30:35,560 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 3: Boston's news Radio.

545
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 2: Okay, we have three calls here. We're gonna get them

546
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:40,200
Speaker 2: all in. I promise. Let me go to Bill in

547
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 2: Easton first. Bill, you are next on Nightside, Dan.

548
00:30:44,320 --> 00:30:47,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, I googled it and I was right.

549
00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 1: It's much shape of a ride with the flow of traffic.

550
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 2: As opposed to me. Yeah. Well again that I've always

551
00:30:55,600 --> 00:30:59,800
Speaker 2: been terrified bad, to be honest with you, but that

552
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 2: that is what they do recommend. And I don't know

553
00:31:03,840 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 2: when they decided. When we were kids, they always said,

554
00:31:07,640 --> 00:31:09,840
Speaker 2: be able to go against remember to go against the

555
00:31:09,880 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 2: flow so you can see what's going on.

556
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:16,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's they say. According to the reading, it said,

557
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 1: just get a mirror you can see because it it.

558
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 2: Get a mirror. But when you you mean when you're

559
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 2: walking or running, have a mirror there? I don't know. No,

560
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 2: a bicycle, oh, the bicycle. Oh well, maybe a bicycle

561
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 2: is important because that's a vehicle. But Maria was talking

562
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 2: about she was I think talking well, maybe she was

563
00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 2: talking about a bicycle I was talking about when I

564
00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 2: was running. Because you can see the car coming at

565
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,440
Speaker 2: you half a mile in the distance, and if the

566
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 2: car looked like it was speeding or whatever, you just

567
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 2: make sure you're you're out of the way. But okay,

568
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 2: thank you for goo of that. I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the the lanes have been reduced dramatically West Roxbury Senate.

570
00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:01,160
Speaker 2: Two to one Senate Street in West Rock, terrible.

571
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:05,040
Speaker 1: Route twenty eight coming out of Randolph into Milton. You know,

572
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: that's kind Yeah, two to one is that's brutal bottleneck.

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00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:11,120
Speaker 1: You know, for anybody that lives on that is even

574
00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 1: upset about it. But yeah, I don't know what spot

575
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: that was at one accident, I don't it was.

576
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 2: It was the bike lobby. The bicycle lobby was find o.

577
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Speaker 1: You're being so kind to these cyclists, but it is.

578
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: It's definitely tyranny by the minority. It's ridiculous, an insult

579
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,680
Speaker 1: the technology. You know, just back to common sense, the

580
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: caustic and way out.

581
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 2: Well, Elections have consequences. Elections have consequences, you know. Prison

582
00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 2: Obama said that to John McCain, and he was right,

583
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,240
Speaker 2: and then I'm saying it to Bill and easton. Bill,

584
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 2: I want to get two more in here. If I can't,

585
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 2: thank you, my friend. Have a great weekend talk. So

586
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,280
Speaker 2: thanks for checking that out for us. Gonna go next

587
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,600
Speaker 2: to Ted in Millis. Ted, you're next on NIGHTSID. I'd

588
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:51,080
Speaker 2: like to get you and Eric in as well.

589
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Speaker 4: Go ahead, Ted, huh, Dan, thanks for having me.

590
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Speaker 8: I've been riding and racing for like twenty five thirty

591
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 8: years or something, and I want to say that Maria

592
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Speaker 8: I think it was her.

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00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 8: Her take on riding against the grain, as last color

595
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Speaker 8: also mentioned is to any beginner cyclist out there, a

596
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:19,480
Speaker 8: horrifically dangerous idea. And the reason is, first of all, obviously,

597
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Speaker 8: if you're going ten miles an hour and a car

598
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 8: is going twenty and you're going at it, it's a

599
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:29,000
Speaker 8: thirty mile per hour collision versus you know, the opposite, right, right.

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Speaker 2: But what about if you're going ten miles an hour

601
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 2: and someone is being inattentive and they they clip you

602
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:38,400
Speaker 2: as they pass you at twenty five miles an hour.

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Speaker 8: I've had that happen to me plenty of times. It's scary.

604
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 8: I've had landscaping trucks run me off the road. Yeah,

605
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 8: it's scary. And here's the qrux of it. You're not

606
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Speaker 8: going to have time to react, even if you're going

607
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 8: against the traffic, and even if you're going fully, you

608
00:33:57,440 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 8: cannot pop. If a car is going to deb eight

609
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 8: from like like a safe lane of travel into your pass,

610
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,800
Speaker 8: you most likely, unless they're doing it from a mile away,

611
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 8: you're not gonna have time to turn that wheel and

612
00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 8: and bail onto the sidewalk or something. It's just not

613
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Speaker 8: humanly possible.

614
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,440
Speaker 2: Okay, but what I'm saying, But what I'm saying is

615
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 2: you have you have gone with traffic, and even with traffic,

616
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Speaker 2: you said it's happening to a bunch of times. I

617
00:34:23,680 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 2: don't want to see anybody get hurt, That's all I'm saying.

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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I know, I know.

619
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Speaker 3: I mean.

620
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Speaker 8: But with going with I agree, going with traffic, you

621
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Speaker 8: you give the driver that extra second or two or

622
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 8: three seconds, uh that a lot might be enough for

623
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Speaker 8: them to correct their position.

624
00:34:42,840 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 2: All right, Any one last quick.

625
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 8: Thing on the bike pass. If you're somebody who's new

626
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Speaker 8: and you're thinking that you want to stay on bike paths,

627
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 8: if you go too fast. You risk there's a risk

628
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:56,879
Speaker 8: of a cyclist coming the other way of a path

629
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Speaker 8: and coming around a jogger and hitting you head on

630
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:01,960
Speaker 8: and then you're in the hospital.

631
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:04,720
Speaker 2: So yeah, okay, yep, I mean it's always the fault

632
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 2: of the drivers, you know that. Okay, thank you, Ded,

633
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,400
Speaker 2: have a great night. Let me go to Eric and

634
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 2: Eric is in Atedinborough. Eric gets you in here under

635
00:35:13,239 --> 00:35:13,560
Speaker 2: the wire.

636
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 6: Go ahead, all right, thank you for taking my call.

637
00:35:16,160 --> 00:35:16,319
Speaker 3: Dan.

638
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 6: Yes, so, just strict me from experience in uh excuse me.

639
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 6: From twenty thirteen to twenty sixteen, I lived in the

640
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:32,959
Speaker 6: Brighton area and I worked on Congress Street in South

641
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:37,440
Speaker 6: Austin like so, and I was without a vehicle, so

642
00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,800
Speaker 6: I actually got into what I would call the hicular cycling,

643
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:42,800
Speaker 6: you know, commuting.

644
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:46,640
Speaker 2: Commuting yep, okay, sure, okay, And I.

645
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 6: Quickly learned like.

646
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:51,440
Speaker 4: That. You know.

647
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 6: Well, Number one is that I see how what Boston's

648
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:57,040
Speaker 6: trying to do. I lived in Copenhagen for four months

649
00:35:57,239 --> 00:36:00,160
Speaker 6: in that city in Denmark when it was designed, it's

650
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,800
Speaker 6: most recent design after World War two, integrated. Yeah, like

651
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 6: bike right, and we're.

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Speaker 2: Not and we're not one of those cities, and it's

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Speaker 2: different over there people. You know, people don't drive thirty miles.

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Speaker 2: They don't commute thirty and forty miles to work. You

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Speaker 2: know that, Eric, I'm coming up against it. I want

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Speaker 2: to give you, make you make a final point, but

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Speaker 2: I'm getting creamed here on time.

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Speaker 6: On final point, to anyone that is cycling, the most

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Speaker 6: important piece of safety equipment is lights.

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Speaker 4: On the bike.

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Speaker 6: And also I wear twenty four to seven even Claire,

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Speaker 6: iwear at night because the key is to not fall

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Speaker 6: off the bicycle and absolutely stay with the floor of traffic.

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Speaker 2: All right, thanks Eric, I appreciate it very much. Appreciate

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Speaker 2: all the calls. Stay safe, Stay safe, Eric. To the

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Speaker 2: folks who are just calling in, we're switching topics. I'm

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Speaker 2: sorry about that. We are going to move on to

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Speaker 2: what's going on in Iran or actually in Islamabad tonight

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Speaker 2: tonight or this morning in their time and follow as

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Speaker 2: best we can. And also ask you whether or not

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Speaker 2: you think that the Trump administration is going to be

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Speaker 2: played by the Iranians. I have some thoughts. I hope

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Speaker 2: you do as well. Six mons, seven two, five four

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Speaker 2: to ten, thirty six months, seven nine, three, one ten

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Speaker 2: thirty coming back on night side