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> I have a pretty strong anti-cycling stance, because I watched my New York neighborhood that was a pedestrian paradise significantly degraded by bike lanes. A
by hfgjdssaghj 3y ago
> I have a pretty strong anti-cycling stance, because I watched my New York neighborhood that was a pedestrian paradise significantly degraded by bike lanes.
A car driver, a cyclist and a pedestrian walk into a café and order ten cream cakes. When the waitress places them on their table the car driver grabs nine of them and scoffs them in his face, then he leans over to the pedestrian and whispers: “don’t let the cyclist take your one”.
- msla 3y agoI've been all but shoved aside by cyclists on sidewalks. Don't try that crap with me.
- Doxin 3y agoThe problem here is not the cyclist -- though that's for sure a dick move -- but the lack of proper space for cyclists to exist. There'll be seventy-two lanes for cars, and maybe one cycle lane which'll end up occupied by parked cars anyways.
- reducesuffering 3y agoIf that was a car you'd have been dead. 20 people in the US died today because of that. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184034017/us-pedestrian-deaths-high-traffic-car https://www.npr.org/2023/06/26/1184034017/us-pedestrian-deat...
- msla 3y ago"Be glad you weren't killed, you ungrateful swine" isn't the tone cyclists should be taking in a thread about dignity.
- neuronic 3y agoI perceive your tone as purely hostile and frankly pretty ignorant, so maybe don’t talk about tone. Aside from that, hating a form of mobility is weird. People that are assholes in cars will be assholes on bikes and vice versa.
- ClumsyPilot 3y agoCars kill children not just on sidewalks, but inside buildings. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/wimbledon-school-tea-party-range-rover-smash-b1093205.html https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/wimbledon-school-tea-...
- gedy 3y agoI get it, but affluent Bikeys are often insufferable and have a chip on their shoulder. To pedestrians and other bicyclists as well.
- msla 3y agoAnd this ableist anti-pedestrian shit is still here. Wonderful.