• paks@feddit.uk
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    2 months ago

    I’ve been the car driver who nearly made jam out of the cyclist in the last panel. I’ve also been the cyclist hit by a car which was driving in the cycle lane.

    Bad road users are everywhere and they use all sorts of transportation. Let’s stop with the division and generalisation.

  • TwilitSky@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I am a bike rider and a car driver and I 100% agree with this. Everyone needs to follow the rules. When I’m driving, I let a bike go even if I think I have right of way. It adds 10 seconds to my day. Same thing with Bike. I give people the right of way and stop at light and stop signs looking both ways.

  • Maxxie@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Give cyclists lanes, so they wouldn’t have to stand in a half metre gap between an 18-wheeler and a traffic barrier covered in mix of 19th century soot and souls of the damned. Then they’ll follow the rules, case in point: entire Denmark.

      • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 months ago

        I saw like hells angles waiting for the pedestrian light to go green before crossing, in the middle of the night on an empty street in denmark, so yes they seem to follow the rules there (it was a long time ago, but we don’t even did that in sweden, sweden where youd get hassled if you like didn’t have your not legally obliged bicycle helmet on).

  • morto@piefed.social
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    2 months ago

    Car drivers love to criticize cyclists, but they don’t realize they’re the real aggressors in traffic. They both do most of the bad behaviors, and have the greater damage potential

    • spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      All of my worst driving, walking and biking stories are vs a vehicle. I commute in various ways a lot, with tons more opportunities for walkers and other cyclists to be the problem. It is unquestionably drivers in 90% of cases. Most drivers don’t deserve to drive.