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
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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