Bicyclists on city streets are a nuisance
Tell me about it. In downtown Omaha they turned one lane just for bikes and they have their own stop lights and if you’re not paying attention in your car, you’ll see the bike lights and blow through them.
“”Bicyclists on city streets are a nuisance.””
Many, many moons ago I practically lived on my bicycle. Some years, I could actually use it for work and college (small Community College near home & work) Even on my days off, I would ride a lot. I was also getting ready to bike down the coast of Kalifornia. It takes years to build up to something like that.
In every situation, I was ALWAYS looking around for dangers, human and otherwise. I would often just get off and walk, just to be careful. I never ran a red light. I biked as far away from the traffic lanes as possible. I always wore a good helmet.
While in many situations the bicyclist has the legal right-of-way, you have no metal surrounding you, and the metal of the cars is unforgiving. One of the most fun experiences was when I was in really good shape. I would chase commuter busses on the San Francisco peninsula. El Camino Real is a street that runs from South San Francisco to San Jose. The busses have to stop when a rider wants to get on, or get off. This one time, some younger people were in the back of the bus, and there is a big back window. After they noticed I would pass them when the bus would stop for passengers, and then the bus would pass me, they started cheering, urging me on. (no, I did not try to draft, get close to the back of the bus. Just another way to get badly injured). One time, I chased a bus so far, I lost track of just how far I had biked North, and the trip home was longer than I had planned. I will never forget those kids waving and yelling ‘come on, go!’ Come to think of it, they probably yelled for the driver to go, go after I passed the bus.
Now we have those damned ‘one wheels’ zipping all over the place on main thoroughfares in East Tennessee...
That was no city street.
Just a group of elderly people doing their weekly group bike ride beside a country highway.
“Blame the victim” is ridiculous
“Bicyclists on city streets are a nuisance”
The article is so incomplete and lacking of facts tht it isn’t what happened. First of all, it wasn’t on a city street, it was on a bridge. A better article was written by KTAR news:
PHOENIX — Police in Goodyear are investigating a fatal accident involving a pickup truck and a group of bicyclists that killed two people and injured 11 others, authorities said Saturday.
The accident occurred just before 8 a.m. on the Cotton Lane Bridge, the Goodyear Police Department said in a press release.
A woman bicyclist died at the scene while another bicyclist, whose gender has not been disclosed, died at the hospital, authorities said.
Police said all the bicyclists involved in the accident are adults and that the driver of the pickup stayed on the scene.
Cotton Lane is expected to remain closed in both directions from the circle at Estrella Parkway to MC 85 for several hours as an investigation into the incident continues.
Police are asking motorists to use alternate routes during the closure.
No additional information was immediately available.
So before anyone jumps on the band wagon and faults the truck, they might want to find out the circumstances.
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Pests.
I can tell you that here in Florida bicyclists constantly form groups and rather than stay in the bike lanes they spread out across the car lane going 15-20mph in a 35mph zone. It backs up traffic forever and they really don’t care. I don’t know what happened here but they seem to have a screw you attitude in this area.
They are a huge menace. I was completely stopped at a 4-way intersection in town this afternoon. There were no other cars at the intersection so I clearly had the right of way.
I started to go and an “adult” cyclist blew right through the stop sign to my right at 15-20 mph and turned left onto the street I was on right in front of me. I jabbed the brakes and just missed him.
“Bicyclists on city streets are a nuisance.” Surely, you jest. Bicyclists are easy to go around in a car.