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Re:Sharrows, the bicycle infrastructure that doesn’t work an... by umanwizard on Sunday December 13, 2020 @06:50PM (#25411719)
The difference is that when a cyclist is rude and selfish, it might put you in a bad mood for the rest of the morning. When a driver is rude and selfish, cyclists can die.

I'm so sick of this "but cyclists are mean too!" whataboutism in every thread of this nature.

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Re:Sharrows, the bicycle infrastructure that doesn’t work an... by kaybe on Sunday December 13, 2020 @07:15PM (#25411899)
In addition the rules and streets themselves often don't make that much sense for cyclists. If the situation was similar for cars you'd see them behave very differently as well.
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Re:Sharrows, the bicycle infrastructure that doesn’t work an... by vorpalhex on Monday December 14, 2020 @02:56AM (#25414570)
> The difference is that when a cyclist is rude and selfish, it might put you in a bad mood for the rest of the morning.

Had a cyclist illegally cross horizontal to a lane on a 40mph road, almost resulted in a 3 car collision - luckily all three drivers (including me and the car behind me) were paying attention.

A cyclist absolutely can cause deaths by not obeying the laws of the road.

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Re:Sharrows, the bicycle infrastructure that doesn’t work an... by lmm on Monday December 14, 2020 @04:07AM (#25414899)
What you're really saying here is that cars are so inherently dangerous that they amplify unlikely-to-be-deadly mistakes from other road users into events that are very likely to be deadly.
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