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Dumpster in cyclist’s death illegally blocking bike lane
(www.thestar.com)
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if you're in a bike lane and it's road to your right and sidewalk to your left (i.e. literally what is pictured in this article) idk where the parked cars are coming in, and there's a dumpster in front of you so idk I just know what choice I'd make. I'm never biking in traffic if I can avoid it and the sidewalk bike cops can eat me
if you wanna be mad about it be my guest but it's not really victim blaming bicyclists to say "hey why don't people just do this thing that's safer for everyone involved than treating a bike like it's a car when that repeatedly, continuously kills people because drivers are a danger even to other drivers"
I just think it's absurd that it makes more sense to some people to go bicycle = car than to treat them more like pedestrians and encourage sidewalk travel, but then pedestrians get just as mad at the idea as bicyclists do about bike lane infringement
The thing that's safer for everyone is for cars to slow down and pay attention. Bikes have nothing to do with it.
Which isn't going to happen, so i guess people are gonna keep dying and I'll keep being the asshole for going "what if we didn't equate bikes to cars"
lol reply to my comment coward, you don't even bike
talking about what cyclists should do when you don't even bike. basically medieval philosophy.
How does someone with the reactionary viewpoint of "bad things happen because of the victims and society can't possibly change" find their way to a leftist website. Are you sure you didn't mean to make a dot world account instead?
Why do people get so fucked up turbo mad at "hey maybe it's fucked to expect bikes and cars to share the same traffic" but sure i'm a fucking reactionary dawg, what the fuck ever
"I WANT to bicycle with ten ton murder machines, you're actually an ASSHOLE for SUGGESTING mixing with pedestrian traffic would be safer"
Mixing with pedestrian traffic is absolutely not safer for pedestrians. It's also way less efficient, it would take ages to bike everywhere dodging pedestrians and tables and chairs and trash cans and doors and plants and dogs and whatever else the fuck is on the sidewalk. Maybe where you live your sidewalks are weirdly completely empty and so it makes sense but where the rest of us live riding on the sidewalk is incredibly difficult and dangerous and slow. Seriously just go outside and use your eye balls and think about it for more than zero seconds. This shit is not complicated. Or since you clearly don't bike maybe go talk to people who do.
qq do you actually bike
They probably no helmet no bell ebike at 30mph on the sidewalk and act as if they're somehow making the world a better place as families and the elderly dive out of their way to avoid being run over.
nah bro every time there's an obstacle in the bike lane just come to a complete stop. then dismount your bike and heave it up on the sidewalk past whatever random bullshit obstacles are in the way, then roll along the janky sidewalk for a bit, then dismount again and lift your bike back on the street. then put all the effort into getting back up to speed. This is something all cyclists should do on their commute route they bike every day for every obstacle in their path. Yeah nah I don't bike why do you ask.
Actually it's too dangerous on the road so bikers should just get inside cars instead. See I solved it wow I'm so smart!