i dont care how they drive in manhatten you havnt seen the maddness there, when you want to walk accross the street, you go, cars coming or not, you go. all the cars blown their horns when you do it, but everyone does it. i saw two people standing in the middle of a 10 lane road with cars zooming by (there is no median they were standing on the yellow line) at 40mph. there arent bikes everywhere on the road in manhatten bikes with three wheels and a flatbed on the back with 100 pounds worth of junk stacked 5 feet high on the back. this is everywhere on the road. people pass on the shoulder. people get in the wrong lane to avoid a bike with a car comming right at them and zoom over a second before another car rams them. missing by inches. when someone right beside u wants over, they get over, no signal, no anyhthing they come over, you let them in or they hit you,