I've been the car driver who nearly made jam out of the cyclist in the last panel. I've also been the cyclist hit by a car which was driving in the cycle lane.
Bad road users are everywhere and they use all sorts of transportation. Let's stop with the division and generalisation.
one has a lot more power and uses a lot more space than the other
Car drivers love to criticize cyclists, but they don't realize they're the real aggressors in traffic. They both do most of the bad behaviors, and have the greater damage potential
All of my worst driving, walking and biking stories are vs a vehicle. I commute in various ways a lot, with tons more opportunities for walkers and other cyclists to be the problem. It is unquestionably drivers in 90% of cases. Most drivers don't deserve to drive.
In my state they changed the rules where a cyclist can treat a stop sign like a yeild sign, and a stop light like a stop sign.
the reasoning is this will encourage cyclists to ride through neighborhoods rather than on busier main streets. cyclists need to maintain momentum when riding, and stopping every couple blocks for a stop sign is a huge momentum killer.
obviously cyclists run a much higher risk of injury in a traffic accident than a driver. also cyclists dont really have blind spots the way cars do. so generally if a cyclist runs a stop, they have already checked for oncoming traffic. yes, there are idiots out there both driving and cycling, but typically if you saw a cyclist run a stop sign, he knows youre there and went when it was safe.
That's a great law. That's basically how I use them (with lots of care, obviously).
Which state?
Idaho was the first to do this. Not sure which other states have followed suit, but i think i remember 1 or 2 doing so
Ah yes because every driver obeys every law all the time. It's only the cyclists that break laws! No driver would ever consider speeding, rolling through a stop sign, or being aggressive!
Won't someone think of the poor drivers!!
Your point is well taken, but whataboutism aside, EVERYONE should be obeying ALL the traffic laws. I cycle on public roads myself and I do see other cyclists not stopping at red lights. A bicycle IS a vehicle - it doesn't come with pedestrian rights.
Or we can just keep escalating finger pointing and law-breaking until the traffic laws are meaningless everyone is dead.
I cycle thousands of miles each year, and I haven't seen a cyclist run a red in years. Depends on where we're riding, I guess.
So, why are you asking me to deescalate? Have you asked everyone else in this post and the author of the comic itself? Why pick me?
Been in a college town recently? College kids are basically the cyclist in the comic.
They're also the most dangerous drivers too...
Maybe we should just make everyone walk till the age of 25.
Laws are a social agreement, not divine. Breaking stupid laws is not bad, and does not imply that all laws should be broken.
Stupid laws like "stop at a red light even if you're wearing lycra in public."
Who can forget the time a cyclist ran a red light and killed sixteen people?
ahhh going to the absurd. that’ll work. fuck. cars. fuck bikes who don’t follow the rules, too.
The Telegraph and LBC are both right-wing propaganda mills.
Case in point:
In 2022, Hilda Griffiths, 81, died after Brian Fitzgerald, a Credit Suisse director and member of the Muswell Hill Peloton cycling club, collided with her while riding with other members at about 29mph in the 20mph zone.
Police could not prosecute Mr Fitzgerald because “there were no criminal Acts” which could be applied to cyclists who speed, the elderly lady’s inquest heard.
That's pure horseshit.
Give cyclists lanes, so they wouldn't have to stand in a half metre gap between an 18-wheeler and a traffic barrier covered in mix of 19th century soot and souls of the damned. Then they'll follow the rules, case in point: entire Denmark.
somebody recently posted a video on one of the fuckcars communities about how using boogle maps in Netherlands was impractical. In the same video they were explaining how they removed traffic lights from no car zones.
traffic lights are necessary because of motorized traffic. When you're cycling you're moving less than a hundred kg at about 15kmh, not +1000kg at 50kmh or more
It's not like the cars in my neighborhood are obeying traffic signals or roadway laws in general.
This sort of attitude by cyclists is why we lack bike infrastructure in the US. Back in the 70s one weird asshole insisted that bikes be treated like cars and fought against it.
Car Brain meme. Cyclists dont do this because they get splattered by a totally-not-semi-truck that can't see 12ft in front of it the minute they move into the intersection.
Yeah, this is a really common complaint from people who dont ride.
"Ooh i saw a cyclist just blaze past a stop sign without stopping!"
Like really? Most cyclists stop, but not all. Most cars stop but not all. Some cyclists are assholes.
Without cars there would be no reason to have signal lights at intersections. Cars are clunky, slow to accelerate, sound dampening and huge, which is why they need all this wasteful infrastructure to make them feasible at all. People on bikes have much better vision and hearing so if you pay attention to the traffic situation, its not necessarily dangerous to run a red light.
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