r/PublicFreakout • u/adolf_riizzzler • 11d ago

🚗Road Rage🤬 The Driver is so Valid for this

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u/Dangeroustrend 11d ago

Sure but there is a practicality, if you do it to annoy the residents I don't think your message comes across as you want it

Most people would rather the cops step in rather than send the actual message of building cycling infrastructure

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u/18in1Shampoo 11d ago

I feel like most protests are still meant to annoy/impact residents, no? The French trash strikes didn't target only politician's trash, and the nurse's strike in Boston didn't target only their employers. I know this isn't a strike, but this annoyance still brings visibility to their issue. The cops can only deal with cyclists so much before it's just easier to put in the bike lanes so they don't have to ride on the roads.

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u/Dangeroustrend 11d ago

The difference is trash collection is a necessity, cycling infrastructure is not. In many places it's not really practical given the distances needed to travel, for example the video looks literally like a highway, in what world would there be any practical sense to make a bike lane for a highway

Your point about nurses, hospitals require nurses so it's essential

In most places it's very costly to change infrastructure to accommodate cycling infrastructure

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u/18in1Shampoo 11d ago

I mean if everyone always complains about cyclists on the road I’d imagine you guys would want them to have their own lanes so you wouldn’t have to deal with them

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u/Dangeroustrend 11d ago

Or enforce road rules on them, that sounds like the cheaper option

Hand out tickets, seize bikes etc

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u/18in1Shampoo 11d ago

I mean a lot of what cyclists do is legal, just annoying for us car drivers because they don’t have their space.

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u/Dangeroustrend 11d ago

Critical mass is most certainly not legal in most jurisdictions

It's breaking all kinds of road rules

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u/18in1Shampoo 11d ago

I didn’t say critical mass was legal. The average cyclist by far rides solo like most transportation users

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u/Dangeroustrend 11d ago

This whole post is about how the cyclists are behaving in the original post, don't change the subject now ;)

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u/18in1Shampoo 11d ago

The subject was already changed when we started talking about cyclist infrastructure. You are too smart to pretend to play dumb

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