- cross-posted to:
- fuckcars@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- fuckcars@lemmy.world
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Honestly what is it about driving that turns people into such self-entitled cunts?
Not sure it’s just limited to driving. Lots of self entitled cunts everywhere.
But thanks to cars, they’re now two and a half ton entitled cunts.
I think people find driving stressful because they struggle to operate machinery more than they are comfortable to admit
Number of times I was almost run over in a crosswalk by someone blowing a red light:
- car:0
- cyclist: 2
Getting cursed out by the dickhead running the red is a great experience. #vancouver
(downvotes? You think that’s not the number?)
That is pretty much exactly what my street looks like - except it’s missing the bunch of “Apple Maps” users taking a detour down our residential street at 40mph (rather than one of the two parallel main roads), because there were some roadworks round the corner for two weeks, half a year ago.
This is exactly my experience when taking my child to school on the bike. I’ve literally seen every issue and had people saying we shouldn’t be on the road from their unnecessarily massive car, with one kid in, parking on the no parking areas and hitting 40 on the school street beforehand where we have roughly 900 children at the primary school (ages 4 to 11), so not like they should be careful or anything with their killing machines…
“I need to park here…But get that walking stick away from my wanky vinyl wrap!”
How dare you disparage my wanky vinyl wrap!
if you’re a cyclist you just can’t win lol
I always cycle on the pavement. it’s less busy than the road most of the time and if there’s someone in front of me I ring my bell to alert them just in case
FWIW it’s illegal to cycle on the pavement in the UK unless it explicitly says it’s a shared use path (has the round blue sign with both a bike and pedestrians on it, usually only in parks)
99% of the time, a bike should be on the road or in a cycle lane.
Edit: Holy shit this is a year old, how did I end up here, apologies for waking the dead post
If I’m walking on the pavement and a cyclist rings their bell to make me get out of their way, I’m gonna get mad
I know cars suck. But you’re meant to cycle on the road - You’re not supposed to cycle on the pavement. I don’t care if you do if the road is horrible, fair play, but ringing your bell at me? It’s my right of way, so no thanks
Bicycle bells are to make people aware of your presence, not to tell them to get out of the way.
I know cars suck. But you’re meant to cycle on the road
This is not true everywhere.
If you’re biking at the appropriate speed for being near pedestrians, you don’t need to alert of your presence because you are no danger.
You only need to alert your presence if you’re going faster than what is safe to do, which is being a dick and pedestrians are right to be mad at you.
