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!
Onomatopoeia 25 points 2 days ago
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.
BassTurd 18 points 2 days ago
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.
innermachine 1 point 9 hours ago
Where I live bikes have as much if not more rights on the road than cars! For every 10mph in a car passing, u have to give them 10 feet. They have full right to use a car lane, and apperantly don't need to stop at stop signs or lights lol. This is very rare for USA but the states culture makes it possible for bikers to get around even in rural areas! Lots of Q tips out here biking on the main routes, I see them pretty regularly. Not so many young people though!
justOnePersistentKbinPlease 7 points a day ago
I see taxi drivers doing it regularly.
Tetsuo 21 points 2 days ago
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.
PeriodicallyPedantic 25 points a day ago
Police in North America exist to protect the property and interests of the wealthy, not to enforce laws that help the average person
shaztopher 13 points a day ago
Dude, cops in NYC actively hate cyclists. If one saw this interaction they’d probably cite the biker
Aceticon 11 points 19 hours ago
I've cycled to work regularly in a couple of countries in Europe (including The Netherlands, which are pretty much Europe's Gold Standard on cycling infrastructure) and do and did paid attention to that kind of thing were I didn't.
In my experience there are ALWAYS assholes who for their own convenience will block the bike lane if they can get away with it. There might be more in some places and fewer in others, but they always exist - assholes fucking things up for the rest are a fact of life.
As I see it, the only solution for it is protected bike lanes were possible so that it's simply impossible for a car to go there and where that's not possible, speedy and stern enforcement (the "there's a tow truck there in 5 minutes top and the fines are painful" kind).
Buddahriffic 1 point 4 hours ago
I was happy to see a city near me had marked some sidewalk space as bike lanes on an expanded sidewalk.
Speculater 95 points a day ago
Damn.
binarytobis 37 points a day ago
I feel like at some point those should start getting points against your license or something.
Speculater 20 points a day ago
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.
bridgeburner 3 points 17 hours ago
We have exactly this in germany. If you collect enough points, ur drivers license gets revoked.
9488fcea02a9 21 points a day ago
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
ManOMorphos 4 points 15 hours ago
In theory he should be paying a lot more to car insurance because of the points and sheer amount of violations. But maybe he's too wealthy to care about that either.
Edit: In many states in the US, they will suspend the license if they get too many points from violations like running red lights or speeding. Not sure how it works in New York state however.
Buddahriffic 1 point 4 hours ago
Those are usually for moving violations, not things like parking fines.
ecvanalog 2 points 19 hours ago
NOT AT ALL trying to support this asshole but I know from experience it’s much harder in NYC. I know conventional wisdom is that nobody owns a car there — but there are more privately owned cars than there are parking spaces, and the city strictly enforces alternate-street parking.
His moving violations are because he’s a bad/selfish driver but it’s harder in NYC than almost anywhere else to avoid parking tickets, unless you’re rich enough to pay for a lot/garage, which is about the price of rent in another city.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 point 20 hours ago
or break them just enough that you don't get a ticket.
Speculater 19 points a day ago
This guy pays about $200 a year to drive like an asshole.
purplemonkeymad 16 points a day ago
At that point it's just a subscription product.
binarytobis 27 points a day ago
FireWire400 48 points 2 days ago
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.
Madzielle 12 points a day ago
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.
justOnePersistentKbinPlease 48 points a day ago
100 years of automobile propaganda has made us in North America forget that streets are for people to move, not for cars to move.
Wildmimic 24 points 2 days ago
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.
atrielienz 2 points a day ago
Don't collected the valve stems. That's property damage and it's illegal. Instead, buy a box of valve stem caps and a box of small BB's. Glue the BB's inside the caps and swap them out with the ones already on the nuisance car (tape the old ones to the tailgate so you aren't stealing), and go on about your day. It's gonna take them awhile to figure out why their tire keep deflating because nobody checks the caps, and it takes less than 30 seconds the bend down and "tie your shoe".
zergtoshi 2 points a day ago
I like the spirit of your comment.
But slowly deflating tires can get dangerous for the people inside that vehicle and around.
Cars with four flat tires not so much.
I don't care for the property of assholes who don't care about the health and potentially lives of others.
atrielienz 2 points 17 hours ago
It won't be a slow deflation. That BB will press against the valve stem and that tire will be flat in a couple of minutes at most. I'm not suggesting you do it to all 4 tires either. Just one would do in almost every scenario.
Aceticon 20 points 20 hours ago
That's entirelly the mindset of the average car driver everywhere.
Were I am now, Portugal, when the police starts properly enforcing some rule of the road that's regularly not obbeyed (like, say the no parking on sidewalks one or the no running red lights in the next 30s after it has turned from yellow one) those types start bitching and moaning about how the police are "hunting for fines" - in other words, admitting that they're breaking the rules and claiming that the real problem is actually enforcing of the rules.
(By the way, unsurprisingly, Portugal is has one of the highest rates of road deaths in the whole of Europe).
HexesofVexes 16 points 2 days ago
Fuckcars is leaking again I see!
SwingingTheLamp 7 points a day ago
On the contrary, everybody hates cars. I've never met a driver who doesn't hate cars. Fuckcars is just the concentrated form.
dogdeanafternoon 5 points a day ago
You might want to meet more people
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 point 20 hours ago
yeah, it sounds like dude here has only driven shitty cars.
Armok_the_bunny 2 points 10 hours ago
I have yet to see someone that doesn't hate everyone else's car, at least during traffic, meaning every driver either also hates their own car as well or they are a hypocrite.
binarytobis 1 point a day ago
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.
HexesofVexes 10 points a day ago
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.
binarytobis 2 points a day ago
Not everyone, certainly, but some people do have a choice, and willingly choose the commute.
I knew a guy in Alaska who drove three hours one way to work every morning because he didn’t like having neighbors. I’m not sure why he cared about his home situation so much when he was only there to sleep, but here we are.
Jesusaurus 14 points 2 days ago
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
benjirenji 13 points 17 hours ago
I wouldn't be able to hear him over my "get out of the way!get out of the way!get out of the way!"
AngryCommieKender 5 points 12 hours ago
It's New York. Need to adjust to the local dialect. "Get out of my fucking way, you fucking asshole!" Anything less doesn't get through.
OldChicoAle 6 points a day ago
Americans voted in a pedophile twice. You think they care about bike lanes or basic decency?
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