Resolve to Ride Responsibly in 2012 #wabaresolution
December 19th, 2011 | 
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The 2011 Ride for Responsibility capped off the Resolution campaign last January.
The New Year is all about introspection–the idea of examining yourself and committing to do good in the year to come.
For 2012, we’re Resolving to Ride Responsibly again! Click here to make the resolution with us.
We ride every day, and every day we’re amazed at the number of bicyclists out there. More and more people in the region are taking to two wheels, whether it’s to save money, save time, or just for fun!
The New Year is the perfect time to be thankful that the bicycling movement is picking up speed, and also to reflect on our own bicycling.
We’re resolving to ride responsibly again in 2012! We hope you will too.
Here is this year’s Resolution to Ride Responsibly. Give it a read, sign the pledge, get introspective over a steaming cup of something in front of a cozy fireplace, and come join us for the Ride for Responsibility on January 28th!
WABA is excited for 2012 and the opportunities it will present!
Bicycling is fun. It’s freedom. It’s a million different things to a million different people. We’re a community of bicyclists, and we want every member of that community to be safe and enjoy the ride all year long.
For 2012, we are again asking bicyclists to Resolve to Ride Responsibly. Be safe. Set a good example. Exercise your right to the region’s roadways responsibly.
Join us in making the Resolution:
…I Resolve to be a responsible bicyclist.
…I Resolve to respect the rights of all road users.
…I Resolve to yield to pedestrians.
…I Resolve to do my part to make our roadways safe places.
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Wow, the previous comments are disheartening. We should all be willing to commit to being responsible road users regardless of the mode we use. What other options would you choose - to be an irresponsible cyclist, to be disrespectful of other road users - after all the roads belong to the cyclists, paid for with what, the bike tax? And pedestrians are at the bottom of the food chain so everyone has to yield to them, and yes, they have a duty to be responsible road users as well. You can't make choices for other people, but you can do your part to make the roadways safe. Get over yourselves. I remember a safety campaign from when I was a kid, "You may be right, but don't be dead right." Good luck in the new year.
Totally agree with the previous comments. I'm new to DC, a bike commuter, and would be interested in joining a bicycle advocacy group (as I had in Philadelphia). However, WABA's focus on responsible biking, rather than the much larger and pernicious problem of reckless drivers and infrastructure designed for cars rather than people, is not something I want to be a part of. Every day I face unsafe drivers, cutting me off, yelling at me, riding me off the road, not yielding at crosswalks, etc., and yet the main cycling advocacy group in the city is focusing its energy on making sure I am polite and courteous to those very drivers. Bikers have a right to safe use of DC's roads, and until WABA decides to fight for those rights, rather than be a feel-good apologist for drivers, I won't consider joining.
I can't agree more with the previous poster. I apparently was a non-responsible biker for YEARS. Last year, I signed the petition to be a safe driver. The very next day, I was hit by a car who didn't feel the need to observe my left-turn hand signal. It's not the cyclist. Stop pinning it on us. I make every effort to be as safe as possible on the road (considering i'm both a drive and biker).
I ride responsibly. I ride responsibly and I still got hit by a car. It's not the cyclists who are the problem. It is a transportation system that is seemingly devoid of traffic law adherence or enforcement. It is a mindset that cyclists must obey traffic laws not designed for them (even though we dont make cars obey trucking laws, and we dont make trucks obey train laws, and we dont make trains obey airplane laws). Its a transportation infrastructure that provides no safe place for cyclists to ride, such that no matter what a cyclists does - its a scaflaw. Cyclists are not the problem. This resolution effort implicitly suggests that cyclists are the problem. It is misdirected. It is problematic for an association to have as a starting point that its own membership are the problem.