Then there's the rifle ON a riffle...
Posted on 09/01/2019 11:47:54 PM PDT by Plumberman27
Mayor Bill de Blasio has aggressively pushed a bike-friendly agenda, adding about 100 miles of dedicated .
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We must ban assault bikes.
Eco-fascists.
Bicycles kill more people a day than riffles.
Motorists hate pedestrians.
Pedestrians hate motorists.
But everyone hates bicyclists.
Too many bicyclists don’t realize the bike paths are shared use lanes, and if someone is ahead of you using that lane, you either wait or go safely around them WITHOUT making a snide, entitled objection.
For example, a driver (me) keeping his door open for an extended period to safely take his disabled child out the traffic side doors (sidewalk side were blocked) is a first-come first-served shared use. But of course I had to hear some moron who sped passed me sarcastically say “nice door” (he was a safe distance from me when I opened it),
This reminds me of when smoking was legal on train platforms - until too many smokers deeply inhaled just before boarding and then exhaled on the train.
Privileges abused become privileges lost. The same fate may await bicyclists if they are not more mindful of others.
Don’t you type from Assault keyboard? It sounds offensive! :)
Piano wire. Neck high.
> Privileges abused become privileges lost.
Well put. Works for many, many things in life.
ok, I don’t get it - I lived in NYC 2006-2008 and traffic was insane, and since 2010 I’ve lived in Warsaw, Poland.
Warsaw has implemented miles of bicycle paths - bikes are supposed to use those paths alone, or, if unavailable, the roads. No pavements.
We have great public transport, and if you want, you can rent bicycles (50 cent an hour) or electric scooters or mopeds.
We don’t have so many bicycle accidents with bicyclists hitting civilians - in fact I’ve heard of just 1 in the past 3 years and that was an injury. No deaths.
Perhaps the key is a civil society?
Then there's the rifle ON a riffle...
That’s a little drastic and probably illegal in all 50 states.
New York City is America’s Danzig corridor.
I ride on Greenways (not in traffic) and even I complain about a lot of cyclists. Some are rude, just like a lot of drivers. Most Greenways require you to use a bell or voice notification when coming up behind somebody. People walking always have the ROW. There have been times I was walking my dog and either I or my dog were nearly run over by a cyclist that came flying up behind us that we didn’t know was there. On the flip side though, when I was riding and used my voice or the bell, or both, walkers either ignored me or had ear-buds pushed in so far they couldn’t hear me. Don’t even get me started on rude dog walkers letting their dogs zigzag across the trail on 16’ flexi-leads. From where I’m looking, everybody is equally at fault most times.
Too many pedestrians are guilty of the same mindset: On the rail trail where I often walk, there are big signs that mark the far left and right lanes for pedestrians and the middle lanes for bicyclists, and yet every time I use the trail, I see pedestrians spread out five or six across so that the bicyclists in the center lane have to veer into the opposite pedestrian lane to get by the walkers, who seem oblivious to the "share the rail trail" ethos.
In all fairness, the bicyclists around town are also a-holes. I live in a community that is dominated by an uber-expensive, elite liberal arts college that has lots of bike riders. Apparently, mummy and daddy (or should I say the nanny they hired to raise their kids) never taught Biffy and Buffy that under state law, bicycles are supposed to follow the same rules of the road as motor vehicles, which means that riding a bicycle on the sidewalk or on the road against traffic is illegal. There have been too many times that I have stepped out on the sidewalk from a shop or restaurant and was almost run over by a bicyclist illegally riding on the sidewalk. As a result, I have become passive-aggressive and when a bicyclist rides towards me on the sidewalk, I not only refuse to get out of their way, but force them to stop to allow me to pass as I sometimes lecture them on the law.
Having recently been in Amsterdam, the problem there is an order of magnitude worse. I worked in Manhattan for years and bikes are a pain, but not really a big deal. In Amsterdam, holy moly, watch out, you WILL be run over.
I live in a rural area, but within 20 minutes of a large town. Our area has lots of winding hilly roads, which the locals know like the back of our hands. On the weekends, we have lots of cyclists from town riding our roads out here, but there are no bike paths. I’m sure the roads are fun and challenging due to the curves and hills, but this makes for some log jams and risk, because someone gets impatient with the bikes in the road and passes when it might not be safe.
I try to slow down on the weekends. It’s not worth getting bent out of shape to avoid a minute’s delay. Why do we live out here except for the slower pace of life?
The mayor of the nearby town, a dem, has all the roads torn up in town to fix old sewer lines, and has pushed for and gotten a 1 cent sales tax increase, making ours 10%, but I’ve heard rumblings that we might get bike lanes which would be helpful, I think.
I also live in a similar rural area and see bikes on the weekends but not as much as you do. We have so many large dogs running loose everywhere that cycling my roads is dangerous anytime. Most of our logjams are caused by tractors. We also have local wagontrain events with hundreds of horses, riders, and wagons stretched out over a mile or more.
Most of the other bike riders, including those who use the citibikes, are decent, law-abiding people. I don't like bikes in the city, I don't think they have a place there. But let's not tar everybody who rides a bike there.
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