As someone who’s been on both sides of this, a lot of cyclists really don’t hold one single fuck about traffic laws. I love cycling and it’s a great way to get around a city and we need more of it and need it to be safer. There are a lot of bikers who basically act like a motor vehicle with the rights of a pedestrian, blow through stop signs, take up the road, etc. It’s not a majority but it’s enough to give riders a bad reputation.
So for the driver, they see the biker riding like an asshole and doing dangerous stuff and they know if they run the guy over they’re going to get blamed for it. That’s where the resentment comes from.
Also, a lot of drivers are just flat out idiots and assholes. That’s part of it too.
It’s unsafe for a cyclist to stop at a stop sign. That’s where most bike fatalities happen. I don’t have blind spots so for me to roll through a stop sign it isn’t dangerous. You seem like someone who would benefit from actually riding a bike in an urban environment to see the differences.
Can you explain the mechanism of action there that makes it more dangerous?
From where I sit- if I’m coming to an intersection that’s a 4 way stop I expect all vehicles to stop. So I go through it and suddenly there’s a biker on my hood who didn’t stop.
This is especially true in urban environments where the bike lane will be behind a line of cars that have stopped for their stop sign.
As someone who’s been on both sides of this, a lot of cyclists really don’t hold one single fuck about traffic laws. I love cycling and it’s a great way to get around a city and we need more of it and need it to be safer. There are a lot of bikers who basically act like a motor vehicle with the rights of a pedestrian, blow through stop signs, take up the road, etc. It’s not a majority but it’s enough to give riders a bad reputation.
So for the driver, they see the biker riding like an asshole and doing dangerous stuff and they know if they run the guy over they’re going to get blamed for it. That’s where the resentment comes from.
Also, a lot of drivers are just flat out idiots and assholes. That’s part of it too.
It’s unsafe for a cyclist to stop at a stop sign. That’s where most bike fatalities happen. I don’t have blind spots so for me to roll through a stop sign it isn’t dangerous. You seem like someone who would benefit from actually riding a bike in an urban environment to see the differences.
Can you explain the mechanism of action there that makes it more dangerous?
From where I sit- if I’m coming to an intersection that’s a 4 way stop I expect all vehicles to stop. So I go through it and suddenly there’s a biker on my hood who didn’t stop.
This is especially true in urban environments where the bike lane will be behind a line of cars that have stopped for their stop sign.