- 12 days
Unprotected bike lanes’ fatal flaw is that they rely on the honour system in a country where nobody has any.
12 daysThankfulky 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@lemmy.cafeEnglish12 days
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@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
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@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
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!
- 12 days
Nah. I see it plenty in Seattle, though I’m sure it’s a much bigger problem in New York.
- Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish11 days
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).
- Tetsuo@jlai.luEnglish12 days
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.
- 12 days
Police in North America exist to protect the property and interests of the wealthy, not to enforce laws that help the average person
- shaztopher@lemmy.zipEnglish12 days
Dude, cops in NYC actively hate cyclists. If one saw this interaction they’d probably cite the biker
- ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish11 days
Hahahahahha you have way too much faith in lazy pigs. Writing tickets to motorists in the bike lane is way less fun than raping children and beating minorities.
- Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
I was happy to see a city near me had marked some sidewalk space as bike lanes on an expanded sidewalk.
- Scott@sh.itjust.worksEnglish12 days
Apparently for NYC you can just search and see the amount of traffic violations, and this dickhead has a LOT
$1200 for 19 violations. No wonder people don’t care about the violations. Red light violation in my country is EUR 320 ($367)
- ManOMorphos@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
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@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
Those are usually for moving violations, not things like parking fines.
- ManOMorphos@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
Speeding and running red lights are moving violations. It’s possible to get a suspended license from getting 2-3 speeding or red light tickets in a row in some states.
- Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
Yeah, but does that site differentiate between speeding and parking tickets? In my area you can rack up any amount of parking fines and the most it’ll do is you might need to pay them off before you can renew.
But yeah, you get points for speeding past a certain amount over the limit, running lights, and other violations that concern the way you move (on public roads, parking lots are free for alls, though a DUI is a DUI even on private property).
- binarytobis@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
I feel like at some point those should start getting points against your license or something.
- 12 days
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.
- 12 days
Alright there might be a little bit of capitalism at play. Fines so low they encourage people to just pay them.
Too steep and people will either avoid the infraction or dodge paying altogether.
So this is literally a rich people get to be assholes fee.
- Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish12 days
Where is it, Finland, that has fines as a percentage of income?
I think it’s a great policy
- 12 days
Yep! They gave one guy a €100,000 ticket for speeding, lol.
- bridgeburner@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
We have exactly this in germany. If you collect enough points, ur drivers license gets revoked.
- 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.worksEnglish12 days
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
- ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish11 days
Holy shit I’ve only gotten 1 ticket in my entire life and it was BS. It’s…really not hard to not break traffic laws.
- ecvanalog@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
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.
- ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish11 days
Always plan accordingly for the conditions. It’s never ok for your lack of planning to become everyone else’s problem.
- ecvanalog@lemmy.worldEnglish10 days
I mean, I handled it. It just involved a lot of getting up early and driving around for long periods of time. I’m only really reacting to the assertion that is isn’t hard. In the city it is, in fact, not easy.
- kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish12 days
The fine should go up exponentially with the number of violations (as well as income). First ticket? You screwed up. Tenth? You clearly don’t care. Hundredth? You’re doing it on purpose.
- 12 days
This guy pays about $200 a year to drive like an asshole.
- zergtoshi@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
Would help a lot, if violations did not only cost money, but the driver’s license eventually.
- Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish11 days
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).
- Bloomcole@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
They drive like maniacs there.
How many times I got hit by a mirror because you had to walk on the streets since all the cars parked on the footpath.
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@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish12 days
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.
- benjirenji@slrpnk.netEnglish11 days
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!”
- 11 days
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.
100 years of automobile propaganda has made us in North America forget that streets are for people to move, not for cars to move.
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@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
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@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
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@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
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.
- Jesusaurus@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
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
- klankin@piefed.caEnglish12 days
Yeah but the driver would probably just run him down, road rage is crazy
- OldChicoAle@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
Americans voted in a pedophile twice. You think they care about bike lanes or basic decency?
- SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zipEnglish12 days
On the contrary, everybody hates cars. I’ve never met a driver who doesn’t hate cars. Fuckcars is just the concentrated form.
yeah, it sounds like dude here has only driven shitty cars.
- Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
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.
i mean, i smoke a lot of weed so that might be part of it. it takes a bit of a philosophy and perspective change from [I’m stuck in traffic] to [I’m traffic]. I view it as somewhat of a daoist or buddhist perspective (because the lightswitch flipped while i was reading an Alan Watts book, Tao, the Watercourse Way. or The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff. i read them one after the other. Excellent reads. I’m not an expert on taoism or buddhism or eastern religions or philosophy but i hear Alan Watts was so don’t take my word for it) Also i have kickass music all the time i drive and an extra song to listen to is never unappreciated.
i’m weird though, i get it. i know i’m an outlier.
now when i’m on my bike? fuck yo car
driving a little supercharged six speed manual shitbox is fun as hell though. especially when you’ve got the road to yourself
supercharged six speed manual shitbox
ALSO i like the way this rolls off the tongue i’m going to use it in a shitty song. i really need to start playing an instrument that lets me sing.
i’ll take the hypocrite label though. we are all not without our little (and large) contradictions
- Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
You know what yeah, that’s fair. There are people that enjoy cars for their own sake. Frankly though, those are the kinds of people I would hope sympathize with the Fuck Cars philosophy the most, as the goal behind the sentiment is (usually) not that cars should no longer exist outright, but that instead infrastructure changes should be made so that not literally everyone needs to drive to live. Changes like replacing on street parking with protected bike lanes, investing in robust public transit networks, and replacing massive parking lots with actually functional construction. You know, changes that get people out of their cars while still reaching the places they need to go, which in turn reduces traffic for emergency services and the people that decide they want to drive anyway.
I mean, you’re talking to one right now. I sympathize, i see the need, but the fuckcars philosophy pushes a little extreme because they often forget the folk who rely on cars, not because of the infrastructure deficiencies but because their bodies broke. like, if you’ve tried to use public transit or accommodations with a wheelchair, you find out pretty quickly why you almost never see anyone in a wheelchair on the light rail. The accommodations for them were built with people who can easily and quickly transfer in mind, and if you can’t transfer then fuck you basically. it’s an extreme reactionary position where what would benefit us all is somewhere in the middle (though, let’s be honest, way closer to the fuckcars side than what we’ve currently got)
- binarytobis@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
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@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
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@lemmy.worldEnglish11 days
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.
