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[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Bike lanes are car infrastructure. We cyclists are perfectly within our rights to cycle in the middle of the lane at a speed comfortable for us. And it's safer for us to do that than hug the shoulder and risk getting clipped by an impatient driver. A bike lane gets us out of your way so you can drive the speed limit. It's for your benefit.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

That's why it's hate for no reason!

The same hatred from the same haters for public transport too: if everyone else is in public transport there more room for you on the road.

It's a bizarrely prevalent attitude from a bizarrely large portion of car users.

We had some nice mini-traffic island things separating a cycleway on a road, drivers kept hitting them and damaging their cars. They complained and the council removed them despite it being obvious to anyone that they were doing extremely what they were supposed to do: stopping those idiots from hitting actual cyclists!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I thought this as well but German drivers will dangerously swerve into oncoming traffic to overtake me sometimes when I block a lane. Even if there is a red stop light 50m down the road.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well, it's less of them, and at least they're risking their own lives too. If there's an accident I want the person responsible coming with me to the hospital. That might not be rational, but it's how I feel.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Lol it's not rational but I know how you feel. Sometimes I daydream somebody hits me and wrecks my bike and then feels so bad that they give me loads of money in hopes of me not suing them, and then I use that to buy a better bike. And then I wonder wtf is going wrong in my brain