It’s easy. Stop parking and “unloading” on the fucking bike path. Getting doored is also a messed up encounter… Not recommendet.
Since none of this is going to change … self inflicted wound.
stupid cyclists not wanting to be a quadriplegic when a car door is opened on them and they then get run over.
How do you think they turn left?
Sometimes it’s better to be highly visible but annoying to motorists than it is to be thrown under an SUV making a right turn into your painted bike gutter.
Most cyclist deaths are caused by being side swiped by passing vehicles. Bike lanes are often not setup in a safe or usable way so the road has to be used.
It’s safer for the cyclist to own their lane by riding in the middle.
I rarely see cyclists doing that. And when I cycle and there’s an unobstructed bike lane, I’d certainly rather use it.
Usually, when I see a cyclist in the road when there’s a bike lane, it’s because there’s a car blocking the bike lane. I mean, they can’t do anything about that.
I can give a laundry list of obnoxious things that I’ve seen cyclists do (e.g. ignoring red lights, cycling the wrong direction on the road, not signaling, trying to squeeze by cars that are turning and have already merged to the right), but sitting in the road for no reason is not one I’ve seen.
Agreed. I’d much rather use functional bike infrastructure, but more often than not I have less than 2 feet of space protected only by a faded line of paint. That’s when it’s not full of parked cars, broken glass, and/or potholes.
Proper bike infrastructure keeps cyclists safe and out of the way of cars. Everyone wins!
Sometimes they put the bike lane in the middle of the road! Love those.
I find that the bike lane doesn’t exist most of the time, actually.
Like, the lane is just a white line against the edge of the road, and it’s just drop off/tall grass on the other side.
There’s a lot of rubbish, glass, small stones etc. on the edge of the road so it’s often not a suitable place to ride in.
Especially if that bike lane is about 50 cm marked with a line of paint.
if it’s a metre, protected by a curb, ideally with a row of parked cars between them and moving cars as well, then they’ll take it like it’s the best thing to happen to the world since the discovery of fire.
Until suddenly there’s a road sign completely blocking the lane. Or idiots getting into/out of parked cars not understanding its’s still an active lane and not a place to hang out for a conversation or blindly open your car door into. Or the city doesn’t put in the money+effort to run smaller street sweepers down the lanes frequently do they’re always full of shit the big street sweepers knocked out of the cars lane. Or you just get hit by a fucking car since people parked their stupid massive trucks along the road impossible to see anything coming down the bike lane. And if you manage to avoid all the obstacles you’ll still get honked at for “not using the fucking bike lane” when you eventually need to make a left turn.
Turns out infrastructure is hard.
Generally you only see cyclists “taking the lane”, as it’s called, when staying in the bike lane is unsafe. At least in the US, there are a lot of poorly designed bike lanes that are not always safe to use.
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true for road cyclist ;)
As a ex-road cyclist. Thats true, never done that myself but everyone else seems to just be a dick. Too bad the hobby does not actually make any fun.
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