Post

Katie Mack
@astrokatie.com

Every conversation about bike lanes is like: "Car crashes kill a huge number of people every day, including pedestrians, cyclists, & car occupants. Good bike infrastructure has been shown to make everyone safer (& doesn't increase congestion)." "But sometimes cyclists break rules & hit people!"

WookieeTaint
@wookieetaint.com

Anecdotally, I see a lot of cyclists deciding whether they are cars or pedestrians or fully-above-the-law depending on the convenience of the situation. Like shooting diagonally across an intersection, last second, because they can.

0 reposts3 likes

Brad, not actually a cat
@bradpholden.bsky.social

Anecdotally I have been almost run over by cars driving against the lights and through intersections which I, as a pedestrian, am allowed to cross. It is like these drivers of cars and trucks think they are fully above the law! Maybe we should ban cars until we figure this out.

marykmac.bsky.social
@marykmac.bsky.social

but that’s a 100% logical response to a system that alternately requires you to be a car or a pedestrian, based on whichever is more convenient to other people, and often at the risk of your own safety.

ophélie, of the woods
@ophaelie.bsky.social

intersections are the scariest part of cycling in the road, getting a head start on traffic and not having to start moving alongside them when the light turns is a huge moment of risk mitigation. people will break rules when it has a good chance of preventing injury or death.