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"Road Rage" Bicyclist vs. City Bus Passenger
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DivideBYZero
Lifer
Psyclist? 😀
Okay, read the article.
1. Bike lanes do get filled with crap now and then, so this is plausible.
2. Bus driver needed to give the guy more room.
3. Bike guy should have just taken down the bus number/route and called it in.
4. Bus driver f*cked up letting the passenger off/on.
Cyclist could have handled this better, but he's got a valid gripe with regard to the passenger assaulting him.
That said, when you have people casually threaten your life on a near-daily basis, eventually you snap and do something like this. Not saying it's right, but I am saying you have to be a bike commuter to really know what it's like to have people not think twice about nearly killing you for legally being in the road.
1. Bike lanes do get filled with crap now and then, so this is plausible.
2. Bus driver needed to give the guy more room.
3. Bike guy should have just taken down the bus number/route and called it in.
4. Bus driver f*cked up letting the passenger off/on.
Cyclist could have handled this better, but he's got a valid gripe with regard to the passenger assaulting him.
That said, when you have people casually threaten your life on a near-daily basis, eventually you snap and do something like this. Not saying it's right, but I am saying you have to be a bike commuter to really know what it's like to have people not think twice about nearly killing you for legally being in the road.
DivideBYZero
Lifer
Agreed. It was 50/50 until the passenger got 'punchy'.
imported_Shivetya
Platinum Member
stay in bike lines or get off the bike
until bikes have tag fees and license their riders they don't deserve to use the road. half the time they don't obey any traffic rules around here
until bikes have tag fees and license their riders they don't deserve to use the road. half the time they don't obey any traffic rules around here
DivideBYZero
Lifer
Until you obtain a license to Kill, give all Cyclists as much room as you can. <^>:|
smack Down
Diamond Member
Just after 9 a.m. January 22, 2004, a bus approached Albright on a viaduct east of the Hawthorne Bridge. At the time, Albright was not riding in the bicycle lane; he says it contained too much gravel used during a recent storm to ride safely.
From the linked article. Dumdass
DivideBYZero
Lifer
"Dumdass"
smack Down
Diamond Member
If road conditions are not safe then don't ride. Or get a bike that can handle the road conditions.
What we have here is an asshole bicker that think he owns a bike lane and half of the traffic lan and then crys when a bus get two close. Well no ****** a bus is going to be close to you when your in the middle of the lane.
One thing I have to add to this, since I'm a Portland area native:
Oregon does not use salt on its roads in the winter, they use coarse sand/fine gravel/however you want to look at it.
Once the snow & ice are gone they come back & streetsweep to get it off the road, but until that happens the loose material would be a little treacherous for a bike.
This isn't your normal every day streetside crap, this was intentionally put down. Also it's not put down everywhere, nor can it be picked up everywhere instantaneously when the snow melts.
Viper GTS
Oregon does not use salt on its roads in the winter, they use coarse sand/fine gravel/however you want to look at it.
Once the snow & ice are gone they come back & streetsweep to get it off the road, but until that happens the loose material would be a little treacherous for a bike.
This isn't your normal every day streetside crap, this was intentionally put down. Also it's not put down everywhere, nor can it be picked up everywhere instantaneously when the snow melts.
Viper GTS
mb
Lifer
I don't care if you're the most law abiding and courteous bike rider in the world - that doesn't mean bike riders in general are, like the one in the article.
Fvck all the bike riders who ride in the middle of the lane. Fvck the bike riders who do not hand signal or stop at red lights or stop signs. There are bad drivers out there just like there are bad bike riders.
Bike riders who obey the law and are courteous completely have my sympathy when drivers try to run them off the road or generally put them in harm. But as a bike rider, you have to understand our point of view when we constantly have to deal with your (bike riders as a collective) shenanigans, as much as you expect us to understand your POV.
I'm sorry, but cars (and bikes in some states) are never allowed on the sidewalk so your example doesn't fly.
Bikes are supposed to be in the road "as near to the right as is practical". If the right side of the road is mangled or full of debris, or whatever, the cyclist is well within his rights to ride around this stuff. It is the motorists' job to be aware of these details in the law (though they almost never are) and be patient for a second as the guy on the bike negotiates around the crap in the road.
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