Are fewer commercial vehicles that only enter pedestrianized areas at low times good? Sure. But that may not be realistic, depending on the size and logistical needs of the pedestrianized zone. When there are commercial trucks in the city, they need priority so they can get out as unobtrusivly as possible.
motorbike obviously not built for it
You don’t need a purpose-built vehicle to drive on some grass, though the mini’s open diff honestly surprised me he didn’t have difficulty when there was 1 wheel on the pavement and 1 wheel on grass. Clearly the suspension is soft enough/has enough travel the designers considered the possibility that the car might not be on good roads.
My bike isn’t a dirtbike, but has adv tires instead of streets because of how frequently I have to ride offroad or on gravel roads or w/e.
honking repeatedly
Its usually a quick beep to let the person I am passing know where I am, I got hit when I didn’t do that last year and someone in the righthand lane decided to take an exit on the left as I was passing.
You know what happens if you swerve into the side of a car
Yes, at the speeds involved you get a small dent, maybe some scratched paint.
Where I live this is reckless endangerment
Who was in danger? The people 15 feet away from the car?
There are reasons I would never move to Florida.
I would never move back, but there are some things I miss.
Eh, I never interpreted it as a threat, only “If I can’t go because of traffic, neither can you! Riding on the lines is illegal!”.
I know bicyclists who have been pushed into the shoulder by assholes, that is threatening, but just getting in someone’s way to lower them to your level is merely childish behavior.
Trucks have less ability to stop and emit a ton of pollution when they need to accelerate again, its in everyone’s best interest that they are not obstructed.
Blocking someone or yelling at them isn’t a threat of violence, its just assholish behavior.
I ride my motorbike with thousands of motorbikes and bicycles in just as dense clusters every day. Minor contact between <400lb vehicles happens constantly without injury. When someone goes down, the worst they get is a scrape.
You are drawing a parallel between driving on some dirt 15 feet away from any people to intentionally committing mass murder.
Option 3: even people who don’t think cars should exist think we should all share the road, you gain nothing from sitting in the passing lane, so it looks like you’re just being an asshole for the hell of it.
It doesn’t matter if cars give way to 2 wheelers because we can simply go around them. Though in the US its not terribly uncommon for crab-bucket brained drivers to try to block bikes from filtering at red lights.
I used to do that during stop and go traffic, after I saw a couple semis doing it. If you can gauge the average speed of traffic and smooth out the irregularities, everyone gets there at the same time, but we all have a much more relaxed drive.
Now I ride a motorcycle so I can simply go around/between traffic.
They renamed South Park to South America.
Don’t you think you’re being a bit hyperbolic?
Would you be equally charitable if the road ahead had been congested with cars moving at the same speed?
Much more charitable, I regularly have to do similar manuvers on my motorbike to get around slow cars.
Actually I’d question why anyone would be bothered at all, at least with the bicycles, some people are afraid the driver will accidently veer across 15 feet of grass and drive into the bicyclists, which like I get it fear doesn’t have to be rational, but that’s not a safety concern if its other cars he was driving around.
I break a dozen traffic laws every time I get on my bike, lets not pretend law is some arbitror of morality to avoid confronting the fact that what he did was harmless.
Find a different path
Thats literally what the car did, and lemmitors apparently aren’t OK with that either.
This is a divided highway with a speed limit of 45mph, those aren’t pedestrian crossings.
The beeping was “hey I’m here” beeping, not sustained “fuck you” honking.
I have learned to give a quick “hey I’m over here” beep when passing in the countryside after a motorbike pulled to the right and slowed down to let me pass, then suddenly swerved across the entire road, no indicator, directly in front of my bike.
See No Evil, Hear No Evil had a bit like that.
A train or a bus transports way more people than walking or biking and has less ability to stop.
Train>bus>commercial trucks>bicycles>ebikes>pedestrians> motorcycles>LSVs>>>>cars
A decade ago, my mother who must have been in her 50s showed up at home with a traffic cone lodged in her rear driverside wheelwell, having no idea it was there.
Why are F-35s so difficult to mass produce anyway? Are there super-labor intensive composites or something?