Different classes of vehicle that have significantly different speed capabilities should have separate lanes. Bikes, tractors, horse-drawn buggies; it’s a safety hazard to force them to share a lane with automobiles.
I try to minimize the amount of time I’m in the wrong lane of traffic. If a car comes around the next corner while I’m passing, the cyclist is gonna be a lot more upset when I have to suddenly swerve back into the right lane. So I pass as quickly as possible. If he wants me to crawl past only doing a couple mph faster than he’s doing, well, that’s not gonna happen.
Also, if my car doesn’t accelerate very fast, I need to get up to speed in order to pass. It’s not just a quick little blip when I’m starting from 15 or 20 mph. So if it makes him nervous when my engine revs, maybe he shouldn’t be riding a bike in traffic?
I can go slower if I stay in the correct lane, but that gives the bike less space. I can give the bike more space by going into the other lane, but then I’ll have to go faster. Pick your poison. I’d be a jerk if I passed both close and fast. But either close or fast is a practical necessity, and if you get upset that I didn’t do neither then you’re the jerk.
Just to clarify. You go slower or you stay away. Your don’t have to do both. The ideia is to be far enough that the bike toppling to the side doesn’t result in a cyclist under your car, or that hitting the cyclist is at a relative low speed.
And I honestly see more drivers overreacting to things that would just dent or scratch their cars than cyclists losing control when they have their lives endangered.
Lmao, wtf dude. You pass a bicycle at a place where you can’t see the road ahead of you, and when a CSR comes your response is to run the bicycle over? You shouldnt have a drivers license. You are a danger to those around you.
No, you have to severely distort what I said to arrive at that conclusion. I said I don’t do those things.
I depicted the various possible scenarios to explain why bike lanes are a good thing. If your solution is to just take away people’s licenses because they passed a bike on the road just so you don’t have to build bike lanes, then you might want to do some introspecting because you’re part of the problem.
You literally said you would have to swerve into a bike if there was a car coming when you were passing at a curve bruh, there’s no scenario where you should be passing at that time period. Its a dumbass argument.
The taking licenses away isn’t because you passed someone, its because your idea of a valid response to you fucking up in this hypothetical scenario is to murder someone.
Different classes of vehicle that have significantly different speed capabilities should have separate lanes. Bikes, tractors, horse-drawn buggies; it’s a safety hazard to force them to share a lane with automobiles.
I try to minimize the amount of time I’m in the wrong lane of traffic. If a car comes around the next corner while I’m passing, the cyclist is gonna be a lot more upset when I have to suddenly swerve back into the right lane. So I pass as quickly as possible. If he wants me to crawl past only doing a couple mph faster than he’s doing, well, that’s not gonna happen.
Also, if my car doesn’t accelerate very fast, I need to get up to speed in order to pass. It’s not just a quick little blip when I’m starting from 15 or 20 mph. So if it makes him nervous when my engine revs, maybe he shouldn’t be riding a bike in traffic?
I can go slower if I stay in the correct lane, but that gives the bike less space. I can give the bike more space by going into the other lane, but then I’ll have to go faster. Pick your poison. I’d be a jerk if I passed both close and fast. But either close or fast is a practical necessity, and if you get upset that I didn’t do neither then you’re the jerk.
Just to clarify. You go slower or you stay away. Your don’t have to do both. The ideia is to be far enough that the bike toppling to the side doesn’t result in a cyclist under your car, or that hitting the cyclist is at a relative low speed.
And I honestly see more drivers overreacting to things that would just dent or scratch their cars than cyclists losing control when they have their lives endangered.
Or you could just wait until it’s safe to pass.
Lmao, wtf dude. You pass a bicycle at a place where you can’t see the road ahead of you, and when a CSR comes your response is to run the bicycle over? You shouldnt have a drivers license. You are a danger to those around you.
No, you have to severely distort what I said to arrive at that conclusion. I said I don’t do those things.
I depicted the various possible scenarios to explain why bike lanes are a good thing. If your solution is to just take away people’s licenses because they passed a bike on the road just so you don’t have to build bike lanes, then you might want to do some introspecting because you’re part of the problem.
You literally said you would have to swerve into a bike if there was a car coming when you were passing at a curve bruh, there’s no scenario where you should be passing at that time period. Its a dumbass argument.
The taking licenses away isn’t because you passed someone, its because your idea of a valid response to you fucking up in this hypothetical scenario is to murder someone.