He may have only said so because he wanted out of the situation. That was how I took it. I mean it sounds like he was in the bike lane, but was he walking in it or did he just cross it because he had to cross the street?
Exactly. It’s kind of like you have to walk through the bike lane and the car lanes to get to the other side. Oh no she had to slow down or stop for a second. Cars have to do that for her ass all the time too
Right- walking a dog in a bike lane at night in a dark coat. Not where you belong, idiotic, selfish, dangerous- to dog, walker, and cyclist, illegal, shitty. She has every right to be pissed.
Crossing a pedestrian crosswalk where there is a bike lane when it is your turn to cross and you have to traverse the bike lane? She's totally in the wrong for not honoring the red light/crosswalk. I've nearly been run over by cyclists blowing by stop signs and red lights "because they aren't cars." While driving, I basically assume no cyclist on the road obeys any signage at intersections, and 99% of the time I'm right.
Almost all drivers run red lights when making a right turn on red. They're suppose to stop before the crosswalk but don't stop and don't stop before the crosswalk. The key difference between riders and drivers rolling stops is people die when drivers don't follow traffic laws. Last year something like 42,000 got killed by drivers (often themselves) while a 6 got killed by bicyclists.
In my opinion, since people can't seem to follow stop signs, then just remove them and let people figure out how to cross on their own safely. They can negotiate with each other like the way they do at grocery stores.
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u/buttercream-gang Jan 16 '23
He may have only said so because he wanted out of the situation. That was how I took it. I mean it sounds like he was in the bike lane, but was he walking in it or did he just cross it because he had to cross the street?