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This is verifiably false. The car is at fault in the majority of crashes. Search if you want sources, there are dozens of studies on the issue. You're complain

This is verifiably false. The car is at fault in the majority of crashes. Search if you want sources, there are dozens of studies on the issue. You're complaining about cyclists killing pedestrians when the ratio is at minimum 5,000:1 when compared to cars? Really? Your "overwhelming majority" claim is also absurd. You as a non-cyclist, see a few bad actors and come up with a generalization that is verifiably false. Meanwhile, when you see a bad driver, you don't blame all drivers. It's the same us vs them principal that allows racism.

tatersolid 9y ago
First, notice I specifically called out my assertions as anecdotal, but I imagine many large cities are the same. I am a cyclist, but I am not dumb enough to ride a bicycle in downtown automobile and pedestrian traffic. I walk over a mile each way from the train station to my office, and have been hit twice by a bicyclist during that walk. I stand by my observation that the majority of bicyclists in Chicago are extremely dangerous and do not follow traffic laws at all. They also wear headphones and even look at their smartphones while blowing red lights and riding down sidewalks packed with pedestrians. The delivery messengers are of course the worst in this regard. The city put in special bike lanes on many streets and still bicyclists don’t use them and ride the sidewalks instead.
- dagurp 9y ago
  > The city put in special bike lanes on many streets and still bicyclists don’t use them and ride the sidewalks instead. The bike lanes can't be very good then
  - tatersolid 9y ago
    They bicycle lanes are fine, on some of the most-used streets. It’s the bicyclists that aren’t very good. Just today I saw an idiot without helmet riding no-handed down the middle of Madison street, wearing headphones and looking at his phone. If he gets tagged by a car, it will not automatically be the car drivers fault.

tatersolid 9y ago

First, notice I specifically called out my assertions as anecdotal, but I imagine many large cities are the same. I am a cyclist, but I am not dumb enough to ride a bicycle in downtown automobile and pedestrian traffic. I walk over a mile each way from the train station to my office, and have been hit twice by a bicyclist during that walk. I stand by my observation that the majority of bicyclists in Chicago are extremely dangerous and do not follow traffic laws at all. They also wear headphones and even look at their smartphones while blowing red lights and riding down sidewalks packed with pedestrians. The delivery messengers are of course the worst in this regard. The city put in special bike lanes on many streets and still bicyclists don’t use them and ride the sidewalks instead.

dagurp 9y ago
> The city put in special bike lanes on many streets and still bicyclists don’t use them and ride the sidewalks instead. The bike lanes can't be very good then
- tatersolid 9y ago
  They bicycle lanes are fine, on some of the most-used streets. It’s the bicyclists that aren’t very good. Just today I saw an idiot without helmet riding no-handed down the middle of Madison street, wearing headphones and looking at his phone. If he gets tagged by a car, it will not automatically be the car drivers fault.