I live in a city where this a lot of bike commuting.
All the same shitty stuff that you deal with while driving, you now deal with while riding your bike. People going way too slow, people riding up your ass, people going way too fast, people who speed up when you pass them, folks that violate every law/signal/sign and don’t give a fuck. idiots blasting shitty music, idiots with sound isolating headphones, idiots who come straight at you head on going the wrong way in the bike lane, etc, etc.
So I basically stopped riding my bike to work. I don’t want to deal with bike traffic, bike aggression, and bike accidents.
It was awesome when nobody else did it, but now you have to wait for specially little bike traffic lights, and there are like 30 people in front of you, who are either slow as shit, or blazing around on e-bikes, and it’s generally just a total shitshow. The ‘freedom’ of cycling isn’t really free when you are forced to deal with all the same stupid bullshit you would in a car. On top of the hostility you get from drivers, pedestrians, and other cyclists. there is also a ton of richdouchebag mom/dad’s on giant e-cargo bikes riding around like they would in their giant BMW SUVs, and acting like entitled selfish pricks and flipping out at you for ‘endangering’ their children if you get to close or something. It sucks.
I take the subway now because at least on the subway people leave me the fuck alone and play weird passive aggressive racing games with me and aren’t trying to head-on collision me everyday.
I cycle to work and have none of these problems because the bike route is pretty wide. Old railway converted into a bus route, no cars allowed but bikes can use it. The bus is every 15 mins so at most I have 1 bus overtake me along it.
It’s dead straight and nothing crosses it all the way along. It’s great. Overtaking is easy because there is loads of space.
That’s nice. We don’t have that here. We are in the street with peds and cars and buses and when they add ‘bike specificic’ stuff it get worse and worse. now you have interesections with three sets of signals, bike, walk, and car, and it’s a clusterfuck as they are all on different timings.
Yikes, I never knew any of these problems existed. I live in the opposite kind of area. Hardly any bikers and I wish it was more bike focused.
Other than dealing with weather I still think I’d rather commute by bike because it has a lot of positives. The ebike thing though is a bit crazy, I feel like those should be more considered like mopeds or motorcycles and not use bike lanes. They can be quite dangerous.
yeah well it’s been very successful in expanding bike commuting, but success just brings more problems.
like i don’t commute by car because it was slow and miserable. how they have made commuting by bike slow and miserable because they added so much bullshit too it and too many people do it now. e-bikes also really messed stuff up because you have people going 20-30mph whereas before bikes they were going like 10-15mph, and the former is way more dangerous. i fucking hate ebike riders.
but hey at least the subway got upgraded so it’s now faster than taking a bike.
My least favorite part about riding on bike trails is le peloton – the mass of riders all gabbing with each other and not paying the slightest bit of attention to what’s right in front of them and crowding up to take over the entire lane. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been literally run off the trail by this shit.
I used to bike to work in Louisiana. No bike lanes anywhere but my route was relatively free of car traffic. The problem was the unchained dogs that would come after me from time to time.
I live in a city where this a lot of bike commuting.
All the same shitty stuff that you deal with while driving, you now deal with while riding your bike. People going way too slow, people riding up your ass, people going way too fast, people who speed up when you pass them, folks that violate every law/signal/sign and don’t give a fuck. idiots blasting shitty music, idiots with sound isolating headphones, idiots who come straight at you head on going the wrong way in the bike lane, etc, etc.
So I basically stopped riding my bike to work. I don’t want to deal with bike traffic, bike aggression, and bike accidents.
It was awesome when nobody else did it, but now you have to wait for specially little bike traffic lights, and there are like 30 people in front of you, who are either slow as shit, or blazing around on e-bikes, and it’s generally just a total shitshow. The ‘freedom’ of cycling isn’t really free when you are forced to deal with all the same stupid bullshit you would in a car. On top of the hostility you get from drivers, pedestrians, and other cyclists. there is also a ton of richdouchebag mom/dad’s on giant e-cargo bikes riding around like they would in their giant BMW SUVs, and acting like entitled selfish pricks and flipping out at you for ‘endangering’ their children if you get to close or something. It sucks.
I take the subway now because at least on the subway people leave me the fuck alone and play weird passive aggressive racing games with me and aren’t trying to head-on collision me everyday.
I’ve been to Copenhagen and experienced a bike traffic jam. I’m against making bikes popular and creating in-city bike lanes in my city since then.
I cycle to work and have none of these problems because the bike route is pretty wide. Old railway converted into a bus route, no cars allowed but bikes can use it. The bus is every 15 mins so at most I have 1 bus overtake me along it.
It’s dead straight and nothing crosses it all the way along. It’s great. Overtaking is easy because there is loads of space.
That’s nice. We don’t have that here. We are in the street with peds and cars and buses and when they add ‘bike specificic’ stuff it get worse and worse. now you have interesections with three sets of signals, bike, walk, and car, and it’s a clusterfuck as they are all on different timings.
This can’t be anywhere in the US, can it?
It is not
Yikes, I never knew any of these problems existed. I live in the opposite kind of area. Hardly any bikers and I wish it was more bike focused.
Other than dealing with weather I still think I’d rather commute by bike because it has a lot of positives. The ebike thing though is a bit crazy, I feel like those should be more considered like mopeds or motorcycles and not use bike lanes. They can be quite dangerous.
yeah well it’s been very successful in expanding bike commuting, but success just brings more problems.
like i don’t commute by car because it was slow and miserable. how they have made commuting by bike slow and miserable because they added so much bullshit too it and too many people do it now. e-bikes also really messed stuff up because you have people going 20-30mph whereas before bikes they were going like 10-15mph, and the former is way more dangerous. i fucking hate ebike riders.
but hey at least the subway got upgraded so it’s now faster than taking a bike.
My least favorite part about riding on bike trails is le peloton – the mass of riders all gabbing with each other and not paying the slightest bit of attention to what’s right in front of them and crowding up to take over the entire lane. I can’t count the number of times I’ve been literally run off the trail by this shit.
I make anpoint of slamming on the brakes and skidding and stopping right in front of them. Wake up, assholes!
I used to bike to work in Louisiana. No bike lanes anywhere but my route was relatively free of car traffic. The problem was the unchained dogs that would come after me from time to time.
So you need to buy gas to ride your bike, hah
This frustrates me so much. Fence your yard or keep control of your damn dog.