After Spike in Deaths, New York to Get 250 Miles of Protected Bike Lanes

Re:After Spike in Deaths, New York to Get 250 Miles of Prote... by mumblemumble on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:00AM (#21387231)

I don't know that driving brings out terribly different behavior on that front, it's more that cars are so big that they act as this inconvenience multiplier that allows one person to easily create a much bigger hassle or hazard for others than they could with their bare hands.

For example, I have plenty of run-ins with stepping out of a storefront and nearly getting creamed by a cyclist who's zooming down the sidewalk at 10mph, too. And it's frequently the cyclist who yells at me for failing to anticipate them barreling down the sidewalk illegally.

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Re:After Spike in Deaths, New York to Get 250 Miles of Prote... by javagram on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @11:46PM (#21394517)

Yeah, that’s fair. I think the other thing is with cars, parking is an issue in a way that it isn’t with a bike, so you end up having people park in the bike lane or on a sidewalk or in a driveway. If those spots aren’t available, they’d probably double park in the road too.

With a bike people wouldn’t just dump it on the sidewalk typically because they’d be worried about it being stolen (of course with the rentable scooters and dockless cycles, people do exactly that since they don’t have to worry about theft).

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