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"This is so dangerous!", laments the woman driving directly into a Critical Mass bike ride (video.twimg.com)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This was a Critical Mass event, which is why the bicyclists are taking up all of the street as a way to reclaim the streets and protest the lack of safety for riders under usual conditions. It's not legal, but protests are never useful if they're fully legal now, are they.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

As a Bicycle commuter... there's plenty of "Am I the Asshole?" that needs to go around here.

I understand the cyclists are treating this as a protest, but unless the road is closed, get the hell out of the oncoming lane. You're not doing anything here other than confirming the drivers bias that you're the problem.

As for the driver, just fucking STOP until they pass. Is the risk of you hitting someone worth the few minutes that pulling over out of the way costs you? The driver's pissing and moaning on the video is some self-entitled bull shit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I obey the traffic laws. I'm apparently one of the only people in my town that has read them. I like riding my bike. I like my town. People Hollar at me from their cars. I get called "fag" every second day. For taking a bike ride.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I don't like cars, but this is fucking bonkers. Trapping people in place isn't 'protesting', it's being a twat.

All the people claiming that this is a legitimate protest surely understand that the car driver was only 'counterprotesting', right?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

Only protest where no one is inconvenienced and you can easily be ignored, mkay?

What's fucking bonkers is car infrastructure. Highways trap me in place all the time when I want to talk a a walk or cycle.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Trapping people in place isn’t ‘protesting’,

Have you ever seen any protests? How do you think they work lol

FFS we close our streets for less important things like construction, marathons, parades.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Oh. Is that how protests work? I am a non-driver who supports initiatives like making cities car-free, increasing public transport, improving cyclist/pedestrian infrastructure. Yet, I am now blocking this community because it's clearly full of attention-seekers craving a power-trip.

This 'protest' makes me support the drivers, not the cyclists. I don't understand how this silly idea came about that making people hate you somehow builds support for a cause.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

this "idea" came from doing things and seeing what works. My personal observation is whatever you do there's people who feel it's too extreme and offensive, that's the nature of trying to change things.

IDK about community here, don't really participate, don't care who leaves or joins. Critical mass as an idea is much older than any "fuckcars" community.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 days ago

lots of people in this thread that don't understand how protests work.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

And recording while driving...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Where I live, critical mass is legal. Bikes can go on the street and we have a law that allows multiple vehicles that move as one to be treated like one vehicle.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Where is it legal to drive in the oncoming lane?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The organizers will inform the city that a critical mass protest is taking place, the city will inform the police and they will cordon off the route. If there are enough people talking part in the protest, the public order authorities will have no other choice - thus the name critical mass. The right to protest takes precedence over the right to drive this specific route.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Protesting the lack of safety for riders by being unsafe riders? I don't think the best way to convince the public that cyclists can be safely integrated into traffic is to purposefully create dangerous situations.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Ah yes, the inevitable “protests should only happen when it’s convenient for everyone and 100% approved by the authorities” comment.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No but how about do this but only in the proper lane? You're still causing attention/inconvenience, but it's a lot less likely someone is going to mow you down from behind over driving slowly behind you, versus riding directly into oncoming traffic.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Use your brain for two seconds. Don't you think they already tried what you're suggesting? If you were planning a bike protest, wouldn't you only go down one side of the lane? Well, it turns out, the people running this already tried that years ago, and they found that blocking both lanes is the only way to do this safely. Otherwise asshole drivers will try to "just slip past" by doing things like taking left turns. Parades take up all lanes on a road for a damn good reason.

Your idea was already tried and found not to work.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Parades close down the street with barricades/detours and such so cars don't have the option to dangerously drive at them.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Funny how it's a problem when cyclists start acting like drivers

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Funny how no one would be on the side of a driver driving into oncoming traffic. They're not acting like drivers unless you want to lump them in with absolute moron dangerous drivers.

Hold up traffic by staying in the proper lane and following road rules like cars and I'll be on their side.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

She sure is.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Idiots in cars, idiots on bikes. Hell yeah I'm pro bikes but setting a wheel on incoming lane? Yeaah.. no thanks, I'm fine

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