Posted on 07/30/2019 12:05:44 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
... The driver of the van told CBS2’s Lisa Rozner he feels horrible.
“It is AGAINST the law to open a car door into the path of a cyclist. Our lives are in each other’s hands. We must act like it,” Mayor Bill de Blasio wrote on Twitter. “Rising cyclist fatalities are a crisis. We will do everything in our power to stop them.”
“Pay attention. Drivers must pay attention to make sure that they will be able to see there is not a cyclist coming,” said Assemblyman Felix Ortiz, who lives a block away from the scene of the accident.
“It’s scary just to think about the possibility that my life is on the line every time I bike ride just to go to work,” cyclist Miguel Gomez said. “I’ve been doored plenty of times. I’ve been doored, like, four times. Luckily, I don’t ride that fast just because I want to be safe, but yeah, it’s a scary thing. It happens all the time.”
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Why so callous this morning?
Just ban all cars in New York.
Because I’m tired of being lectured on pronouns by crazy people. I’m totally fine if these people die off, by accident or otherwise. The world does not need them and they do no good being part of it.
No really they don’t. Normal people will go on with their lives just the same whether this did or did not happen.
Riding a bike in NYC traffic is a bid for a Darwin Award to begin with. We got another winnah.
A normal person cares and goes on with their lives just the same.
No really, no normal person cares in any meaningful way.
Maybe cares in the virtue signaling sense but that’s rather contemptible isn’t it.
Because people on bikes aren't actual people, right? They're just an annoyance to you, and as such deserve to die, right?
This is not normal:
I’m totally fine if these people die off, by accident or otherwise. The world does not need them and they do no good being part of it.
It’s completely normal, most people just don’t have the courage to admit it to your face, because anyone asking is obviously a leftist casting about for sympathy.
Me, I already know you’re a leftist - banging the Russia drum like an MSNBC contributor as long as you have is hardly subtle - and really don’t need to hide my feelings about it in this context. So take your virtue signaling garbage about human refuse that can’t figure out its own pronouns being tragically killed riding a bike in traffic because it was probably thinking more about its goddamn pronouns than it was about the safety of itself or others and insert it into your nethers.
Move the bike lane so it is between moving Lanes of traffic. Move cars over closer to the parking lane so car doors open into traffic. Then dooring would not happen.
Oh. You really are a nutjob with me living in your head rent free.
Now I see what “no normal person” is about. A personal attack from a nutjob with a huge chip on his shoulder.
Funny thing is I don’t even recall posting with you. How many months you been seething?
i have seen a few short sections like that at major intersections in Berlin. But I don’t think it would work over all the way cars like switching lanes.
NYC is an obstacle course. I’ve been accidentally bumped into and shoved many times just walking the streets. Have to be at peak alertness all the time there plus sensory overload factor . NYC annoys me just walking its streets. Crazy traffic and some bicyclists are too aggressive riders for that whirlwind environment.
Horns must be honking all day and night from what I’ve seen of Fire Island...
They are going to need walking lanes haha!
In NYC, people do have OPTIONS, they can take ‘mass transit’ as they call it, anywhere. And it’s not like Baltimore, where you put your life on the line (at least if you avoid late night). NYC also has lots have health clubs, some with stationary bicycles.
No need to run around cutting off cars.
Literally bikes are more difficult to see in a busy urban environment.
Many “spandex boys” are arrogant and could care less there are 100 cars following them st 10 mph!
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