As a pedestrian, cyclists are a huge danger because cycling culture is built on aggression, ignoring traffic laws like stop signs and cross walks, and treating humans as street furniture.
Similarly, I’ve seen more than one accident caused by a pedestrian stepping into traffic without looking, taking out a cyclist in the process (from between vehicles, eyes on a phone). Nothing too serious, but only by luck. No one is overtly concerned by traffic laws in SF regardless of the mode of transit.
On the (literal) one side, two ton death machines trying to run you down and honking if you're not as far to the right as physically possible, safety be damned.
On the (literal) other side, people staring at their phones wandering out without paying attention calling you aggressive for existing.
If it is, that's only because you scared away all the others, leaving behind only the ones that aren't scared of anything.
Look at cycling culture in Copenhagen or Amsterdam sometime. That's what cycling looks like when left undisturbed. Children, elderly, and few even wear helmets.
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I don’t disagree.
As a pedestrian, cyclists are a huge danger because cycling culture is built on aggression, ignoring traffic laws like stop signs and cross walks, and treating humans as street furniture.
Similarly, I’ve seen more than one accident caused by a pedestrian stepping into traffic without looking, taking out a cyclist in the process (from between vehicles, eyes on a phone). Nothing too serious, but only by luck. No one is overtly concerned by traffic laws in SF regardless of the mode of transit.
Replacing “cyclist” with “motorist” and then “pedestrian” with “cyclist” would make your sentiment outrageous.
Like I said, cycling culture is aggressive.
On the (literal) one side, two ton death machines trying to run you down and honking if you're not as far to the right as physically possible, safety be damned.
On the (literal) other side, people staring at their phones wandering out without paying attention calling you aggressive for existing.
What a world.
Share the road.
And use your brakes.
If it is, that's only because you scared away all the others, leaving behind only the ones that aren't scared of anything.
Look at cycling culture in Copenhagen or Amsterdam sometime. That's what cycling looks like when left undisturbed. Children, elderly, and few even wear helmets.
The Low Countries have their cycling culture because they are flat, small and temperate.
The US is always vast with extreme temperatures. It’s often mountainous or a desert or a desert with mountains.