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Cars don't belong in cities, says Top Gear's James May
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this post was submitted on 24 Mar 2025
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I have to admit I'm a bit guilty of this, but from both sides. I bike more than I drive, and when I'm driving all cyclists are a menace and are in the way, but when I bike all drivers are reckless idiots who are trying to kill me.
The rule of the road is that any one going slower or faster than you is a menace, this applies to everyone with pedestrians being at the bottom of the food chain.
I still think about the time I passed a bicyclist on the road, reached a red light, and saw him pass between all the cars that had just passed him to stop in front of me again. We all had to pass him again.
That's every bicyclist.
To be fair most cyclists in major cities have a death wish. I don't have another way to describe wearing all black in winter with no lights driving against traffic in a car lane (where there is also a dedicated, separated bike lane), and ignoring all stop signs and traffic signals. It's a death wish.
Yes it's mostly doordash et al, but just because doordash doesn't care about it's workers doesn't mean the workers don't have to.
in my region the doordash type motorcyclists are the ones with a deathwish, they weave fast through traffic like they are immortal (and traffic laws don't exist). needless to say they die a lot. the byciclists are rightfully afraid of our chaotic traffic, except when they install a motor on their bikes, for some reason.
what country is it?