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It may surprise you to know that the bike lane is not extra parking, nor is it the place for you to stop your car for while you get coffee. Just something to keep in mind. —A cyclist
This article appears in Aug 19-25, 2010.
46 Comments
are you serious? a bike lane? i thought it was for those little smart cars.
I thought the bike lane was for squeegie anarchists and Kerouac turistas who are too lazy to suck cock for travellin’ money
I’m with LS, I thought it was an express lane reward for people willing to be seen in a matchbox racer (secretly I covet a SC).
Here we go again with the cyclists complaining. So predictable.
Dear Cyclist:
It may surprise you to know that the sidewalk is not an extra bike lane, nor is it the place for you to stop and chat with your fellow neo-hippy friend. Just something to keep in mind. —A driver
I just don’t get all the cyclist-hate. Yes there are people with bad cycling skills, but it’s not like all drivers have perfect driving skills. In fact many do not. Cyclists are taking responsibility for not spewing more vehicular exhaust into our precious environment. Why would anyone have a problem with cyclists.
I know what the OP speaks of only too well. Many drivers disregard bicycle lanes. I’ve had vehicles park in them too, as well as driving in them, while I’m trying to cycle in them, definitive proof of the lack of motorist skills.
i don’t either ol, but i am assuming you ride your trusty steed like i do…arrive alive^^
paingirl, I also have 25 years of motorcycling (riding, not passenger) under my belt so I am only too conscious of survival of two-wheeled vs four-or-more-wheeled vehicles. I ride my bicycle with great respect for vehicles and pedestrians alike. Arrive alive and intact! There are no other options!
“Cyclists are taking responsibility for not spewing more vehicular exhaust into our precious environment” – no they’re not, they just can’t afford a car…
i have a car and a bicycle and a bear, but the bear doesn’t ride the bike
…because that would be a circus act and we don’t *mouse ear* circuses. *Snort*
I have 2 cars, and a bike, and chose to bike to work. Although I am selling one car as I no longer need it as I tend to bike. So there goes your theory BRoc
…and we don’t *mouse ears* those creepy clowns either…screeee
I love when cyclists complain about others. This OP probably runs stop signs, doesn’t signal and whips through traffic whenever he/she wishes.
Don’t try to deflect bad driving habits onto the cyclist. You have no way of knowing if the OP obeys all the rules, or not. Whether he/she does or not, that’s no excuse for drivers to do something they shouldn’t. The point is, drivers should not be stopping on or using bike lanes.
It’s just another case of drivers thinking they have the right to do whatever they want. Whether it’s parking in bike lanes, creating their own parking spots anywhere they feel, or my favourite, pulling up onto the sidewalk in front of the LC, like it’s supposed to be for parking. I keep wondering if the ones who did that regularly are surprised about the yellow poles that have been put up to keep them out. “what? I’m not supposed to park on the sidewalk? Who knew?”
Here we go again with the drivers trying to turn the blame onto the cyclists while jumping to conclusions about the OP…so predictable.
😉
Here we go again with the same posters going on about how all we hear is the same useless drivel….. so predictable.
Hee, and here we go with the same regulars getting every so slightly bent out of shape for being called predictable.
I think I know the LC you speak of TDF! The one in Tacoma centre in Dartmouth…that parking lot is a nightmare! The intersection is right beside the entrance to the store, and lazy idiots actually park their cars half on the sidewalk, half still in the road, making it impossible for cars to get around them and people crossing the road are hidden. Crazy alchies!
I’m not predictable! at least I hope not….
Being chaos in human form should certainly dictate I’m not predictable, you farcical, twat-tickling, douche nozzle.
I’ll show you bent out of shape…..
Fuck Pandora’s Box, that was a prototype compared to the calamity and dispair held deep within…. zZz’s Box.
(not to be confused with lady parts…. I don’t have any of those….certainly not lately anyhoo….)
go go crazy guy…you are many things zZz but i would not call you predictable^^
I agree with TDF & melectric…that Tacoma Centre parking lot was laid out by someone with no concept of how to set up a parking lot! And the twits that don’t seem to realize what lines mean on a parking lot just make matters worse.
And, zZz, you make it sound like you once did have lady parts? 😉
Yep, Tacoma. That’s the one. It really amazed me at how many cars parked there. One or two “I’m so special, rules don’t apply to me” drivers, I could see, but it’s crazy how many thought that sidewalk was a parking space. The property managers had to put in those poles before someone got hit. It hasn’t completely ended. Some days you see traffic cones put up a few feet from the poles because someone’s trying to park on the thruway in front of the stop sign. Amazing.
I did… but they moved away to be happy.
Now it’s just the shell being filled more every day with rage, anger, repetitive annoyances, and a completely unguided feeling of uselessness.
Rainbows need not apply.
basically…. zZz’s box of calamity and pestilence.
and before anyone starts, I don’t come on here for pity, compliments, or lollipops.
I come on to spew angry bitching and complete biased judgment, read the occasional funny quip…. and exaggerate – even if only a little.
To be clear (because I know some people are a little slow on here),
I’m not talking about an actual box here so don’t go looking on kijiji for it or anything….
you will feel its wrath soon enough…
that’s the zZz i *mouse ears* wrath is better than envy but not as good as lust
alright, then I lust for wrath…
excellent, kevin spacey would be proud *shudder*
I think its great how it took about 10 years of people parking along St.Margrets Bay Road to go swimming at Long Lake before they put up No Parking Signs. Now it’ll probably take another 10 before they get around to giving out tickets….
get your tattoo cranky?
Ok someone has to invent a teleportation machine so we can solve this cyclist/driver/pedestrian conflict once and for all.
Yep, there’s no turning back now.
Back to on topic. Why do people waste their time with the ‘well bicyclists do yada yada yada’ rebuttals? Man, this is as bad as hfx.news back in the day. Bicyclists fuck up. We get it. Car drivers fuck up. We get it.
Get over it.
cranky gets my nod for stopping this insanity. c’mon humans please watch out…don’t wan’t to kill/maim anyone
Though I did watch some dumb bitch ride through a red light the other day. Man, that really grinds my gears.
And all I have to put up with are fat redneck kids on a golf cart, oxen, deer, giant beavers and an old dude with a miniature horse and a wagon.
If cyclists already get bike lanes it should be against the law to cycle on sidewalks. Can’t have it all, ecogeeks.
most of the really good/safe riders i know are over 40…one way or t’other all bets are off
I concur NFG, I concur.
It is against the law to ride on the sidewalk.
I think it should be against the law to be morbidly obese and receive a free angioplasty, but that isn’t going to happen, is it?
perfect worlds are no fun a’tall…georgie porgie you tell ’em. heehaw
sorry*ahem* i was speaking of mr. orwell
I want someone to plow through “critical mass” when they run a red light and hold up traffic. And this is coming from someone with a bicycle and no car.
Is there an age limit for the no bicycles on sidewalks law or do we let kids play cycle VS car (bus or semi) too on the roads? Or is it kids on sidewalks while their parents keep pace with them on the road? Where should one walk one’s bicycle? Sidewalk or road? What about motorized wheelchairs and such? Where should they be? Sidewalk or road? I recently saw a Vespa scooter going through Dillman Park on the sidewalk. Clearly the rules need to be clarified.
Mass education for all! Wheels on the road, feet on the sideWALK, unless you’re young and/or handicapped, I think. Keep the frickin bikes out of the crossWALKs too, unless you’re walking the bike across. But hey, that’s just my opinion.
Fat, you risk being seen as a fool calling cyclists ecogeeks. Many cyclists choose bicycles because they can’t afford a car but still want to be independantly mobile. Not to mention physically fit. How clever to criticize those who reduce their carbon footprint whether intentionally or by necessity. Our dying planet thanks you.
I own a car and don’t give a fuck about the environment (though trash blowing in the wind irks me). I bike because I like the extra time it has always afforded me by not spending 2 hours on a bus for a 20 minute bike ride or time wasted scraping a windshield and warming up a car. And walking sucks.
I mean, not all car drivers are Indy 500 watching wife beating budweiser slurping fatsos, are they? Are they?
Bike bitches, does it ever end. It is really simple. For every asshole driver there is an asshole cyclist. The only difference of course is that the cyclists are saving the planet. Just ask them, they will tell you, again and again and again….