3 ms·
How about as a driver, you don't pass cyclists when it's not safe?
by steveax 10y ago
How about as a driver, you don't pass cyclists when it's not safe?
- apathy 10y agoHard to blame non cyclists, they just have no fucking idea. Once you've seen it from the other side of the barrel it's hard to remember how you saw it beforehand.
- brokenmachine 10y agoIt is not hard to blame drivers here in NSW because it is illegal to pass within 1m of a cyclist. Nobody ever gets fined though, cyclists still just get killed.
- apathy 10y agoGah. I'm sorry. That sucks.
- dpark 10y ago1) Why do you assume he's passing cyclists when it's not safe? 2) It doesn't help unless all drivers do this, which they don't, which is the problem and the point.
- steveax 10y agoI probably could have been clearer, but my "as a driver..." Was not meant to single the poster out individually, but to apply broadly to all drivers. Many drivers seem to feel that it's their God given right to pass whenever they want to.
- shard972 10y agoI grew up in NSW where cyclists were not allowed to ride on the footpath (even though nobody uses them on the central coast) and I always made sure to overtake using another lane or if the cyclist had his own clearance on the side to ride in.
- wwalser 10y agoThis person never said that they did pass cyclists while it's unsafe. They only perfectly described what actually does happen. As someone who commuted via cycling daily in Sydney for several years, "I just don't see how you can be safe when…" perfectly reflects my own opinion on the matter. It wasn't safe and I could not be safe and I couldn't imagine how I could be safe. I just chose to do it anyway because it was better for me physically (so no as it wasn't suddenly deadly), the environment and it was faster. One ought to be able to describe shitty reality without others supposing that they support said shitty reality.