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Living in San Jose and seeing many, many people ride in bike lanes in the wrong direction, I wonder how safe it is. It terrifies me every time I see it. I want
by intopieces 10y ago
Living in San Jose and seeing many, many people ride in bike lanes in the wrong direction, I wonder how safe it is. It terrifies me every time I see it. I want to honk and wave and tell them but I'm afraid it'll only cause an accident.
- maxerickson 10y agoThis lack of understanding happens all over the US. I don't see how it happens. Many of the people doing it clearly think that a bicycle is contraflow like a pedestrian.
- ringwalt 10y agoIn Manhattan, it's mostly bike couriers who go the wrong way. When I cut across one short block the wrong way because it's convenient, there have been a few pedestrians who've called me out on it. So someone who's on a bike all day should know the "right" way by now. There are also frequently bikers on some busy avenues when there's a bike lane a block over, which is also just laziness or failure to plan ahead.
- maxerickson 10y agoSure, I'm an occasional rule breaker and I know the traffic rules well enough. I'm talking about people like the person I saw slowly riding a 3 wheel cargo bike up the wrong side of one of the busier streets in this small town.