I live in Helsinki where bicycling is slowly starting to be taken more and more seriously as a form of commuting. I noticed some similarities to your comment an

I live in Helsinki where bicycling is slowly starting to be taken more and more seriously as a form of commuting. I noticed some similarities to your comment and what people here are saying about bicyclists. >Cyclists riding on sidewalks. Apart from delivery people, a cyclist should never ride on the sidewalk in Manhattan. Ever. If you find yourself riding on the sidewalk, just don't take the bike out. Bikes are for roads. The article even mentions how sidewalks are narrow. People ride on the sidewalk usually because there is no other safe alternative. Depending on the time of the day and the street, it might be extremely intimidating to drive in regular traffic. There are so many drivers who aren't aware of cyclists/hate cyclists that it's better to get on the sidewalk. Of course it should go without saying that you don't do this on Times Square or somewhere equally crowded. >Bike lanes (IMHO) have made traffic significantly worse because they're thoroughly underutilized and basically kill a lane of traffic (on the avenues at least). Isn't this kind of a "chicken and egg" type of a problem? They're underutilized because cycling isn't taken seriously and the infra is lacking. Also you can keep adding lanes and lanes for cars but it's not going to help with congestion, eventually there will just be more cars. >I generally find the delivery cyclists are fine. It's the commuters and tourists who need to be removed from the road. Why? Well tourists are just oblivious and will ride down a bike lane 3 abreast at 6 miles an hour. But the commuters are just plain assholes, as a whole group. What makes you say that about commuters? Also tourists are tourists everywhere, even in Helsinki. You just gotta live with it. >Eliminate all street parking I agree but I think a more realistic goal would be world peace. I think that a huge part of making cycling and e-biking/scootering work in a major city is creating a good biking culture with adequate infrastructure. Maybe because biking isn't enforced like driving is many riders just selfishly do what they want and seem to lack a certain awareness to situational speed and other users. If they hopped behind the wheel and applied the same driving style, we'd have bodies. Then again, if the infra covers only small parts of the city and is inconsistent, you can't blame riders for breaking the rules.