You should consider moving to Walnut Creek. You’d like it.

For cars, it “feels” more dangerous to blow through a red light. To a cyclist, it’s not a whole lot different from a pedestrian crossing against the light. This isn’t to condone breaking traffic laws, but to recognize that people in different situations evaluate risk differently. Speeding, for example, is the norm for…

So people who can’t afford or choose not to own cars don’t have real jobs? Or are you just more important then them? Have you ever gotten a lecture that your car is polluting from a cyclist?

One time I was riding with my boyfriend and we pulled into the left lane to make a left turn. As we were waiting for the light to turn green, a lady in a convertible next to us asked us “Excuse me, what are you two doing in the left lane? You should be in the bike lane!” Apparently it does not occur to some drivers…

I think cyclist-hating drivers like to single out one particular memory of a cyclist who happened to fuck up or be an asshole. After one bad experience with a cyclist, suddenly all cyclists become stand-ins for the worst humanity has to offer. I think it’s people’s way of feeling better about burning fossil fuels to…

Yes, but in likelihood, you would have been hurt less by a bike than a car. I don’t think I need to explain why this is the case. This is also why some places choose to be more lax with laws effecting cyclists, because bikes simply aren’t as damaging to surrounding people and property as cars can be.

My experience is the opposite - I see much more bad behavior from drivers than cyclists that’s in spite of the much more dire consequences that be caused by a car vs a bike. Part of the disconnect may be that a lot of people seem to be focusing on a certain subset of mostly male urban riders vs the whole universe of…

Thank you! It’s like every day I see either 1) a pedestrian deciding the red light is a suggestion, 2) a pedestrian crossing in the middle of the street instead of the crosswalk literally 10 feet away, 3) someone running or walking in the bike lane 4) a person deciding a bike lane is just a place for them to park…

Again, ride a bike for a few days and learn to empathize.

Sometimes people do that because they are going to turn shortly and had a clear opportunity to move from the bike lane to the lane they should appropriately turn from. I hate when drivers don’t get that. Yes, I have been in the bike lane 90% of my ride home, but now I need to turn left, so I crossed at the last…

My 2 good friends and ex-coworkers are nurses and bike religiously every day, in Philadelphia heat. I used to work at a hospital and the bike rack spanned literally a full city block and was full every single day. So no need to be sarcastic there. I’m sure you don’t like when cars almost run you over, which in a…

That’s a gross generalization. I actually very rarely see cyclists running red lights - too dangerous. Now drivers? Like another poster said, it’s pretty high percent if you count people who sneak through on the yellow/red especially for lefts.

Yeah I stop at like 95% of red lights (unless it is like dead of night when I don’t want to sit at a stop light all alone, or morning when the streets are empty, and there are clearly no cars), but stopping at a stop sign has actually almost gotten me beat up. I think the approach you describe is actually the safest.…

I never said bikers shouldn’t be following the rules of the road, hence my statement describing my own biking as, “trying to get there safely & cheaply,” I do in fact follow the rules of the road. But there will always be other bikers out there who don’t, just as there are drivers out there who don’t follow the rules…

I agree. While obviously some bikers ride unsafely, most problems I see on the road are drivers are caused by distracted (texting, eating, smoking, staring out the window looking at shit, looking at their GPS, putting on makeup, turned around fussing with their kids in the back), aggressive (angry at the existence of…

Ride a bike for a few days and learn to empathize.

I’m categorically not taking my hands off of the bars in traffic full of angry cage drivers just to be the example for them about how to use signals. No. Not going to happen. And I don’t appreciate cyclists being singled out regarding the speed limit with regard to cars. The hypocrisy of that is laughable. Cyclists…

Legally bicycles have the same rights as cars on the road. While bicycles sometimes break those rules, cars regularly ignore bicycles around them altogether. The difference is, if a car breaks the law the bicyclist is probably going to be severely injured. Worst that’ll happen to the car is a small dent.

i know a lot of nurses who bike, so that reasoning makes no sense. regardless, i don’t care about your reason for commuting how you do. i care about cars pretending like they are entitled to the road (it’s illegal to bike on the sidewalk. trust me, if we could avoid the road, we would. we have no choice). and…

My guess is that you were probably riding on white line/shoulder... which a lot of guidebooks say to do, but it’s not actually the law. The law in most states is that you must ride as far right as practicable, but federal highway regulations effectively state that a bicycle cannot safely share a lane with a car unless…