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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.
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.
Nah. I see it plenty in Seattle, though I’m sure it’s a much bigger problem in New York.
I see taxi drivers doing it regularly.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Seriously, Ive gotten one ticket in 20 years. One.
Alright there might be a little bit of capitalism at play. Fines so low they encourage people to just pay them.
Too steep and people will either avoid the infraction or dodge paying altogether.
So this is literally a rich people get to be assholes fee.
Where is it, Finland, that has fines as a percentage of income?
I think it’s a great policy
Yep! They gave one guy a €100,000 ticket for speeding, lol.
The fine should go up exponentially with the number of violations (as well as income). First ticket? You screwed up. Tenth? You clearly don’t care. Hundredth? You’re doing it on purpose.
This guy pays about $200 a year to drive like an asshole.
At that point it’s just a subscription product.
Bro was at like 19 on just that license plate
Would help a lot, if violations did not only cost money, but the driver’s license eventually.
Probably a cop
NYC?
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.
someone died on a main drag of road at about 3pm one day right before christmas. Car accident, car hit a guy on a moped.
I got out of work at 6 and had to take the road home. There was this absolute prick speeding, weaving through traffic and being dangerous. Speeding to the gas station, so I pulled in behind him. I told him somone died just hours earlier on this road from dangerous driving, someone lost thier son right before christmas and asked him to follow traffic laws, and slow down.
he goes, “sweetheart, I got places to be”. I raised my voice, “so does everyone else, that doesnt mean you can speed and potentially kill someone, youre not special”. drove off.
“I got places to be”
people are so selfish.
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?
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
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
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.
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
