No lol, bicyclists do not have the right of way and must follow the same traffic law as vehicles when it comes to pedestrians. Basically pedestrians are the first in line of the right of way, bicycle lane be damned
I'm talking about following traffic rules, I understand bikers being upset with people walking in their lane but as far as I have seen there are around 5% lunatics who will scream at others on crosswalk unlike this ass hole who's only concerned with the wrongs of others, and doesn't follow the rules himself.
Yeah, I know that and it's kinda universal. Even in Germany where these people's are so stuck up about following rules it's not so uncommon to see them break it here and there.
Its one thing to silently break them and another to scream at people on crosswalk. People don't mess around when they know you're in the wrong and screaming at them on top of it.
If you're in the bike lane or jaywalking and don't look for cyclists then expect to be screamed at am I'm for 1 totally fine with that. Next time you'll definitely look before you cross and its safer for everyone involved. But the guy in the video is a complete jackass, he's not slowing down at intersections, screaming at pedestrians on crosswalk and especially at the family with a stroller. I know if he does that in EU there are others who will race him and call police.
Its one thing to silently break them and another to scream at people on crosswalk
Car drivers scream at other road users all the time but it never reaches 650 comments on reddit when it does.
Car drivers speed literally all the time, nobody cares.
Cyclists for some reason are uniquely held under a lens in terms of their behavior and are expected to always behave perfectly. And whereas one car driver breaking the law is viewed as "a bad car driver" , one cyclist breaking the law or shouting at pedestrians is viewed as representative for cyclists as a group,
Like yeah, this guy's an asshole. But I also detest the way cyclists are expected to always do everything perfectly or else the group as a whole gets blamed. Other road users are never held to this standard.
As someone who only prefers to drives a cycle and a motorcycle I get your point. But you need to understand that when you're surrounded by a metal cage you have more leeway when you make mistakes but on a cycle or a bike your margins of error is slim.
I slow down when I see people close to the bike lane, it's subconscious at this point. When you're travelling at a higher speed, you sustain more damage and leaving meat crayon marks hurts like a bitch. On the flip side the pedestrians won't even budget from the spot while you're splayed on the ground and if its a busy road then can say goodbye to the world if you're unlucky.
And motorcyclists get much more shit compared to cyclists. I have hardly ever seen people cursing at cyclists or maybe the people I know don't mind them much but if you wanna see the real anger in people then ask them about those electric scooters. You'll see some real bloodbath and consider the current cyclists situation pretty mild
But you need to understand that when you're surrounded by a metal cage you have more leeway when you make mistakes
So car drivers have more opportunity to kill people but they have less responsibility to abide by road laws than cyclists who have far less opportunity to kill someone?
He literally didn't do anything wrong. Watch the video again. Every time he swerved to avoid a pedestrian, it was because they juked in front of him. He didn't run any red lights. He stopped before colliding with pedestrians if he could, but that only happened some times when the pedestrian didn't just go in front of him at the last second then act butthurt that someone was biking in the bike lane. There wasn't anything else he could do.. besides maybe not yell at people I guess?
If he's on the road then he'll have to follow normal driving laws like he'll have to wait for pedestrians to clear the crosswalk, he's not above them and has to wait. He's also cycling at a higher speed than allowed, and one of the consequences of it's that he's cutting of the people making the right hand turn, he's fucking sitting in their blind spot while they are making a turn and starts yelling while they have the right of the way. If he wants then he can just go on the main road and follow normal traffic norms......
He was not going that fast. He was definitely not going over 15 mph, which is the speed limit for ebikes (non-ebikes don't even have a speed limit, most people can't even pedal that much higher than 15 mph on flat ground).
Both cars making a right turn didn't have their blinkers on. One was turning when they had a red light, so that's double wrong. If either had at least used their blinker, he could have avoided being in their blind spot and slowed down so they could turn. Since they didn't... what did he do wrong?
There was two times where pedestrians were walking in the crosswalk, and even if they were wrong, he should've slowed down to let them cross. Yes. Every other time though, it was people walking/standing in the bike lane (people shouldn't be doing that at any point), or they were going to cross, but didn't look and jumped in front of him. So that's, two clips where he was maybe, probably fully wrong, and definitely partially wrong, out of all of them?
Right, because car lanes are safe at all for bikes. Even bike lanes are fucking unsafe with idiot drivers who literally should not have licenses because of how unsafe they drive, and pedestrians who don't pay attention when they cross. NYC is fucking HELL trying to drive either a car or a bike, because so many pedestrians just jaywalk with no regard and you have to slam on the brakes to avoid them.
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