• KeriKitty (They(/It))@pawb.social
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    6 months ago

    Ahhh, I see the problem! … The car drivers feel like fools sitting around in their enormous polluting wastes of space and resources but not going anywhere! So naturally everything good must be destroyed in the name of making the wrong thing feel better.

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      6 months ago

      Having been a motorcyclist in NYC this is true. They will try to hit you to keep you from doing something they can’t. I can’t imagine how much worse it must be for cyclists.

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        6 months ago

        The only advantage we have is that we have an increasing number of bike lanes parallel to major thoroughfares. While there’s the prevalent issue of trucks parking in the lanes they are, for the most part, clear and in reasonable condition.

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          Well, that and bikes just being inherently significantly more space-efficient so those lanes are not clogged when the car lanes are.

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      6 months ago

      I’ve seen multiple instances of driving being mad that they are in traffic while bikes or buses zoom by.

      If they weren’t so infected with car brain, the easiest solution is to leverage one or both of those transportation methods that zoom by you.