Comment by walkabout

Comment by walkabout 11 hours ago

7 replies

Yeah, I don’t hate bicyclists in the “I would try to make them feel less safe” sense (I tend to go way the opposite way, if anything) but I do dread seeing them when driving or walking in the same spaces. They’re really unpredictable, and their presence creates extremely unsafe-feeling situations for everyone around.

When I ride a bike, I don’t do it in places where, when I encounter a bike driving, it makes me especially anxious.

AtlasBarfed 11 hours ago

Who is driving the two ton vehicle that has killed millions worldwide?

  • walkabout 11 hours ago

    Yes, of course. But the bikes are the ones making the space those murder-machines operate in operate differently from how it usually does, which is inherently not great.

    I’d like to see car use reduced as much as the next sane person, but I still go “ah, goddamnit” when I see a bicyclist approaching an intersection or come up on one going uphill on a twisty no-shoulder 35+ mph road.

    • PaulDavisThe1st 7 hours ago

      You can choose to stop doing that.

      • walkabout 7 hours ago

        Huh? I react that way because it introduces a lot of chaos to the situation. That won’t change even if I stop minding that chaos has been introduced to a dangerous situation.