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In Tokyo, people drive their bicycles on the sidewalk (ment only for pedestrians) while completely ignoring the bicycle lane with painted instructions for them.
by rayraegah 8y ago
In Tokyo, people drive their bicycles on the sidewalk (ment only for pedestrians) while completely ignoring the bicycle lane with painted instructions for them. They can't drive fast and usually end up causing a mess by almost running into someone every 30-60 seconds.
What's even worse is they don't even ring their bells but try to sneak past you. Most of these cyclists are not alone, they have their kids in a basket.
This causes me to rage. These days I just walk on the bicycles path since all the bicycles are in the pedestrian walkway.
- andai 8y agoWhy don't they use the bike path? One country I've lived in is similar to how you describe, but there's hardly any bike paths there. Where I am now there's plenty, and everyone bikes on the bike paths.
- zulln 8y agoDo you have any guess on why people are doing that?
- rayraegah 8y agoThey fear driving on the road and prefer personal safety or value personal safety (self preservation reasons) I had a friend who did that and I proceeded to interview/profile her. I didn't ask her why she did that, I simple talked to her about the subject and noticed the primary reason was fear of driving on the road, secondary was laziness i.e. they'd have to cross the road and drive on the other side to reach their target or cross the road to drive on the correct side and cross the road again for the target which could be a little far off from the crossing. I've been looking for opportunities to talk to more people who do this to get more insight into the problem.