Still thinking about the woman in an SUV on a one-lane street who blazed past my friend and his/my kid on their bikes, forced her way between my 6 and 4 year olds on bikes, and then whipped around to shove me over at the stop sign.

I am literally 3 feet from the stop line, and she blazes up and pulls into my path. Put the hand out to keep from going under her wheels. She slows and then squeals to the right on the main road. Now, this is where it gets good: she hits a hard/illegal U-turn and comes back

"DID YOU JUST TOUCH MY CAR?!"

As you might imagine, it devolved from there. The core of it? Six of us were finishing up a bike ride, a block from my house. She? Was in a hurry down a one lane street. We were riding in the street, not just per our right, but per necessity.

There's no continuous sidewalk on this street, despite the fact that it's 1500' from a Metro station ('sup, @ArlingtonDES and "Vision Zero"). Also no reasonable parallel route. But fuck if she was going to wait an additional 15 seconds for 4 kids under 10 to get home safely.

What's the solution for this? Cultural, in the end. In the same way no adult would think to shove a 1st grader out of the way in line at the ice cream truck, it needs to be just as unacceptable to prioritize your handful of seconds over a life on the road. And yet.

But in light of the slow progress on the cultural front, we could do a whole lot more on the built and enforcement front. If only we had some control over that, right? @TakisKarantonis @kcristol @Matt4Arlington

(But we also have shame, I suppose. So hey, @YorktownHS, there's someone with one of your stickers who drives a white Acura MDX, plate JSS-18something that you really should have a talk with.)