You must log in or # to comment.
I wouldn’t be able to hear him over my “get out of the way!get out of the way!get out of the way!”
Unprotected bike lanes’ fatal flaw is that they rely on the honour system in a country where nobody has any.
Thankfulky enough, I think Mamdani has stated in some recent interviews that he’s working to make bike lanes actually protected, and just make the city more bike/pedestrian friendly. So things are looking up for them!
In my city I never (and I mean never - people just don’t do it here, they even avoid getting caught in the fucked up turn lane stuff) see people drive in bike lanes, so this seems like a NY City asshole kind of thing.
I live in a city where most of the bike lanes are just a dedicated shoulder. When I’m driving on these roads, 100% of the time if I’m following someone, they will drift into the bike lane. I also ride my bike in that lane, so I’m extra alert to it. Not so much a parking issue, but lazy and distracted drivers are a plenty.
I see taxi drivers doing it regularly.
Nah. I see it plenty in Seattle, though I’m sure it’s a much bigger problem in New York.
With so many cops why would it rely on the honour system ?
I mean it should be the cops kicking out people off bike lanes… We have assholes like that in the EU but they sometimes get a fine for it and eventually some stop doing that kind of shit.
The problem is that it’s not enforced by your police forces.
Hahahahahha you have way too much faith in lazy pigs. Writing tickets to motorists in the bike lane is way less fun than raping children and beating minorities.
Police in North America exist to protect the property and interests of the wealthy, not to enforce laws that help the average person
Dude, cops in NYC actively hate cyclists. If one saw this interaction they’d probably cite the biker
Apparently for NYC you can just search and see the amount of traffic violations, and this dickhead has a LOT
Damn.
$1200 for 19 violations. No wonder people don’t care about the violations. Red light violation in my country is EUR 320 ($367)
Holy shit I’ve only gotten 1 ticket in my entire life and it was BS. It’s…really not hard to not break traffic laws.
NOT AT ALL trying to support this asshole but I know from experience it’s much harder in NYC. I know conventional wisdom is that nobody owns a car there — but there are more privately owned cars than there are parking spaces, and the city strictly enforces alternate-street parking.
His moving violations are because he’s a bad/selfish driver but it’s harder in NYC than almost anywhere else to avoid parking tickets, unless you’re rich enough to pay for a lot/garage, which is about the price of rent in another city.
or break them just enough that you don’t get a ticket.
11 speeding and red light incidents… less than $1200??? Thats absurd.
11 separate incidents being caught doing behaviour that has an increased chance of killing/maiming someone… and less than $1200 in fines to deter that???
this person has proven that they REGULARLY break the law in a dangerous way… and they still allow him to get behind the wheel every morning… and one day when he kills someone, they’ll call it an “accident”
There’s nothing accidental about allowing this person to operate a 3 ton weapon every day
I feel like at some point those should start getting points against your license or something.
We have exactly this in germany. If you collect enough points, ur drivers license gets revoked.
Absolutely! 19 in 4 years is crazy. I’ve gotten 2 in 23 years, running a yellow light and not realizing the speed limit changes at night in Texas. Both of those fines were way more than $50. New York is dumb.
Would help a lot, if violations did not only cost money, but the driver’s license eventually.
Probably a cop
100 years of automobile propaganda has made us in North America forget that streets are for people to move, not for cars to move.
Streets are for emptying chamber pots.
Fuck this guy. It could’ve been a minor thing but he chose to be as obnoxious as possible about it just to be able to tell himself that he’s the good guy.
Some people just shouldn’t be allowed to get a car.
NYC?
There was a spot close to where i lived close to a kindergarten - it was a driveway for emergency vehicles, crossing over the sidewalk and closed off. Every fucking day for 2 hours in the morning and intermittent during the afternoon you had to dodge illegally parked cars there, most of the time not even leaving enough space for a wheelchair or a baby stroller while they dropped their own kids off.
There were perfectly fine legal parking spaces a few meters down the road.
It was more than “mildly infuriating”, because it speaks of either a lack of self-awareness or a “fuck you, got mine”-mentality.
How many valve stems did you collect?
Don’t collected the valve stems. That’s property damage and it’s illegal. Instead, buy a box of valve stem caps and a box of small BB’s. Glue the BB’s inside the caps and swap them out with the ones already on the nuisance car (tape the old ones to the tailgate so you aren’t stealing), and go on about your day. It’s gonna take them awhile to figure out why their tire keep deflating because nobody checks the caps, and it takes less than 30 seconds the bend down and “tie your shoe”.
I like the spirit of your comment.
But slowly deflating tires can get dangerous for the people inside that vehicle and around.
Cars with four flat tires not so much.I don’t care for the property of assholes who don’t care about the health and potentially lives of others.
It won’t be a slow deflation. That BB will press against the valve stem and that tire will be flat in a couple of minutes at most. I’m not suggesting you do it to all 4 tires either. Just one would do in almost every scenario.
Fuckcars is leaking again I see!
On the contrary, everybody hates cars. I’ve never met a driver who doesn’t hate cars. Fuckcars is just the concentrated form.
You might want to meet more people
yeah, it sounds like dude here has only driven shitty cars.
Everyone I know IRL hates cars and driving in rush hour, and all of them live at least 30 minutes away from work. I don’t think they properly weigh their options when choosing a place.
Not everyone has a choice sadly - work tends to be in the cities, and prices for a family home in a city are beyond most couples.
So, you’re forced to commute by car.
Not everyone, certainly, but some people do have a choice, and willingly choose the commute.
I knew a guy in Alaska who drove three hours one way to work every morning because he didn’t like having neighbors. I’m not sure why he cared about his home situation so much when he was only there to sleep, but here we are.
Would be a shame if you tried to “squeeze past him” and accidentally scratched/keyed to whole side of his car because there was no space to get around
Yeah but the driver would probably just run him down, road rage is crazy
Americans voted in a pedophile twice. You think they care about bike lanes or basic decency?
Kick his door off
U locks don’t just work for locking up your bike, or so I’m told
They’re actually pretty shitty for locking your bike up.
Please video yourself doing this
Is not allowed, filming and riding a bike is severely fined here
Use a tripod
