If you do this, you might not deserve to die, but I sure want to jam a stick in your spokes, you disgusting road-hogging turds!
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Lol, it can be safer to take the lane for a short time. If I am on the edge of the road, many people will pass in the lane, not giving me enough room and possibly run me off the road. This being said, I try to plan my route to not include busy and dangerous roads.
I used to live in a city with 300k people, if I would ride at 17 mph, I would make all the lights in the downtown area. Some would get mad, but I would make it in the same time, passing them at every light they stopped at. This road was 4 lanes, so not bad like a busy 2 lane 2 way road.
There's a road that I take to and from work, a pretty typical two lane road. The cyclists are pricks. There's a perfectly good bike path that runs parallel to the road. It's good enough for road bikes, but, the jerkwads insist on riding on the road. They are almost as rude as the geese we are no longer allowed to run over. (OK, I never have, but I sure want to...)
Yes in that case, I would take the bike path or a different route.
Yes, because you are a sensible, thoughtful human.
I try to avoid major streets.
I've also been doored while in a bike lane.
It's one thing if you're in a bike lane, but entirely not the same if you're in with vehicular traffic. 👍
Where I live there are explicit laws allowing bikes to take an entire lane.
That said, it's not worth doing unless I'm groups.
We have a lot of "ghost bike" displays.
I'm not a fan of laws that "protect" bicyclists or pedestrians as it leads to the above song really dumb stuff.
Not really. Those morons were going to do something dumb either way.
Maybe. But then they should be the one to pay the consequences, not shuffle them off to a fairly innocent driver.
Where I am, the driver rarely if ever, see any consequences.
Local law enforcement despises cyclists.
That looks sucks, but... Gosh, too many cyclists are just douche bags.
Idk why, but it really seems to attract lot of them...
The only somewhat peaceful coexistence of cyclist and pedestrian and drivers I saw in some flat German cities with great infrastructure. And I mean infrastructure for all. Good roads, lot of parking in the city, good wide sidewalks and most notably cyclist tracks which were not part of the road but part of sidewalk. Physically divided from traffic with clear distinction where is place for bike and where for pedestrian.
Combined with obligation to give a way to bicycle when turning in car it mostly worked.
But still I had several situations both as driver and pedestrian where I was like "boy do you not value your life at all? :) “
Yes, those separated bike lanes are ideal. Not every city can accommodate them, though.
People are stupid at times... Everywhere. Lol
This.
And, even better, fully separated bicycle paths using land unsuitable for other uses (like river banks and freeway green space.)
Most cost-effective transport infrastructure there is for urban areas. Melbourne, Australia, has a lot.
There are a lot of asshole cyclists. But there are also a lot of asshole motorists and pedestrians. I suspect they are mostly the exact same persons.
That explains the bottles thrown from motorized vehicles.