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Also being cyclist in NYC these yellow cab drivers are your worst enemies. I have almost got ran over more than once. You can listen to them moan about cyclists

Also being cyclist in NYC these yellow cab drivers are your worst enemies. I have almost got ran over more than once. You can listen to them moan about cyclists if you have been in enough yellow cabs. Having biked around in city for a while I personally go out of my way to avoid them. I only use them if I am in manhattan and have absolutely no patience or sobriety to call uber.

cmurf 9y ago
If there were fairness, police would have had a field day (except it'd have taken months) ticketing yellow cabs if they applied the same strict rigor of law as they did ~5 years ago with cyclists. And that's accounting for some really absurd laws NYC enforced just on cyclists (if there's a bike lane, and you're a bike, you must be in the bike lane).
- RHSeeger 9y ago
  Even if there's a car parked in the bike lane; you can get a ticket for going around it.
praneshp 9y ago
I do feel like this applies to Uber/Lyft drivers also (at least in SF and bay area). The bonus structure built on X rides per day makes some drivers quite rash.
- fstuff 9y ago
  More than that, it seems a lot of SF Uber/Lyft come from far away to work in San Francisco and don't know their way around and have their eye's glued to their phone's GPS. I ride a bike in SF and I've nearly been hit by a Uber/Lyft driver at least 10 times this year(once the same driver cut me off 3 times on 2nd street). I keep a eye peeled for those Uber/Lyft logos when I see them pulled over, when pull out into traffic they almost never look for bikers and usually screwing with their phones.
  - praneshp 9y ago
    Yes. I rode in the car of a person that lives in Fresno, but drives 5 days in SF. He and a bunch of others sleep in their cars at night. He knows the city well enough now, but pointed out 10+ drivers in a 30min drive with cellphones in their hand. The only time I felt unsafe inside the car was when my driver drove with his elbows, with the Uber app in one hand and his wife on a different phone in the other hand. He just honked and cut across 3 lanes of traffic on El Camino on Mountain View. He told me later that he used to drive a taxi for years. I chalked it down as a cool story to tell people.later.

cmurf 9y ago

If there were fairness, police would have had a field day (except it'd have taken months) ticketing yellow cabs if they applied the same strict rigor of law as they did ~5 years ago with cyclists. And that's accounting for some really absurd laws NYC enforced just on cyclists (if there's a bike lane, and you're a bike, you must be in the bike lane).

RHSeeger 9y ago
Even if there's a car parked in the bike lane; you can get a ticket for going around it.

praneshp 9y ago

I do feel like this applies to Uber/Lyft drivers also (at least in SF and bay area). The bonus structure built on X rides per day makes some drivers quite rash.

fstuff 9y ago
More than that, it seems a lot of SF Uber/Lyft come from far away to work in San Francisco and don't know their way around and have their eye's glued to their phone's GPS. I ride a bike in SF and I've nearly been hit by a Uber/Lyft driver at least 10 times this year(once the same driver cut me off 3 times on 2nd street). I keep a eye peeled for those Uber/Lyft logos when I see them pulled over, when pull out into traffic they almost never look for bikers and usually screwing with their phones.
- praneshp 9y ago
  Yes. I rode in the car of a person that lives in Fresno, but drives 5 days in SF. He and a bunch of others sleep in their cars at night. He knows the city well enough now, but pointed out 10+ drivers in a 30min drive with cellphones in their hand. The only time I felt unsafe inside the car was when my driver drove with his elbows, with the Uber app in one hand and his wife on a different phone in the other hand. He just honked and cut across 3 lanes of traffic on El Camino on Mountain View. He told me later that he used to drive a taxi for years. I chalked it down as a cool story to tell people.later.