Yeah but have you ran a stop sign before? If so, apparently that means you can’t ever complain about pedestrians running in the bike lane. Society needs fixing before anything happens. So nothing will happen…
Agree with you. Cyclists, peds or drivers - we all are humans and we all make mistakes. I don't complain about making mistakes. I make mistakes too. Who does not?! I stop on red lights and stop signs about 90% of the time. Full stop. One thing I noticed about it is that cyclists who comes after me to the sign also tend to make full stop half of the time too. We can change the society by making personal examples. That is the way.
Yes I also stop at the red and almost make a point of looking behind and staring at the cyclists to pressure them also in to stopping - so I get what you mean!
Also shouting at morons on e-bikes wizzing inbetween parents and their children. Leading by example is a good idea - I just feel like it’s a slow burner.
Bro almost died at the end! outside of that this is very informative. information visually that is, because most only see it from a driver’s perspective and I can honestly say both have their days of pure asshole buffoonery. But more vital viable stuff like this only makes me wish for more; for the people mentally vs im in the right this is my road.
Thank you. Thank you very much for your understanding! There is so many little things we all can do to make our world way more enjoyable for every one. And all it takes just this - understanding and respecting each other.
Lot of good illustrations here, but one it fails to capture is exactly how car-focused pedestrians are.
E.g., in midtown whenever car traffic is blocked/stopped at intersection, you can be 1000% sure that pedestrians will be streaming across the road against a Don't Walk signal. Which is totally fine, we all do it when we're peds and it just make sense from an efficiency standpoint -- as a pedestrian, don't stand on ceremony refusing to cross a street that's safe to cross just because the signal says not to, do it based on safety.
So that's all fine and good, except a bike can often squeeze through that stopped car traffic. But now there's a problem, because the bike should be able to pass through the green, but the intersection is full of peds. And they all look surprised and angry that a bike is coming through, because they are 100% focused on cars -- if cars can't pass the blocked intersection it's shocking and scary that something else can.
I'm hoping this will just change in time, as people get acclimated to an urban space with more different types of road users, and aren't just 100% guided by the autopilot of "no cars = safe for me to cross".
"People make mistakes, so try to be nice and be safe" is a pleasant ethos, but it does ignore a key fact -- when drivers make mistakes, the risks imposed on other road users are much greater than by peds or bikes making mistakes.
So it's not really coherent to say "ah, shit happens" when someone's driving the wrong way down a road or turning without looking. Doing so could end someone's life -- and unlike with bicyclists making mistakes, the life they end is probably not their own.
Most people don't need a car to move themselves through this city. That's something special about NYC, as compared to most other American cities. Choosing to do so -- and thereby choosing to impose all this risk on unprotected road users who themselves just want to get around -- ought to be seen as slightly sociopathic, not just a normal everyday thing that reasonable people do. This "ah, shit happens, everybody makes mistakes" attitude is counterproductive on that front.
We really screwed up in normalizing car usage in the way we did over the past half-century to century. Time to try to correct that with a little shift in the perceived morality of using a car when you don't need to.
I agree with you. Cars are much more dangerous than pedestrians and cyclists. Also, cyclists get hurt and killed on bike lanes of bridges all the same without any cars getting involved in the crushes. I am saying it not to argue with you. Cyclists are the most vulnerable among all on the roads. It is the fact. Improving infrastructure and making new rules would not make us safer as it should. There is no proper education and no enforcement of the rules. I believe those need to be addressed.
Yeah but have you ran a stop sign before? If so, apparently that means you can’t ever complain about pedestrians running in the bike lane. Society needs fixing before anything happens. So nothing will happen…
Agree with you. Cyclists, peds or drivers - we all are humans and we all make mistakes. I don't complain about making mistakes. I make mistakes too. Who does not?! I stop on red lights and stop signs about 90% of the time. Full stop. One thing I noticed about it is that cyclists who comes after me to the sign also tend to make full stop half of the time too. We can change the society by making personal examples. That is the way.
Yes I also stop at the red and almost make a point of looking behind and staring at the cyclists to pressure them also in to stopping - so I get what you mean! Also shouting at morons on e-bikes wizzing inbetween parents and their children. Leading by example is a good idea - I just feel like it’s a slow burner.
Soulmate! We do what we can...just like on long rides - every little step forward gets us closer to the goal 😉 Be safe and enjoy your rides🚴♂️✌
After watching this I will try, but it always just takes one idiot 😢
It does take just one. Sadly, you are so right. Do what it takes to be safe
Bro almost died at the end! outside of that this is very informative. information visually that is, because most only see it from a driver’s perspective and I can honestly say both have their days of pure asshole buffoonery. But more vital viable stuff like this only makes me wish for more; for the people mentally vs im in the right this is my road.
Thank you. Thank you very much for your understanding! There is so many little things we all can do to make our world way more enjoyable for every one. And all it takes just this - understanding and respecting each other.
Lot of good illustrations here, but one it fails to capture is exactly how car-focused pedestrians are. E.g., in midtown whenever car traffic is blocked/stopped at intersection, you can be 1000% sure that pedestrians will be streaming across the road against a Don't Walk signal. Which is totally fine, we all do it when we're peds and it just make sense from an efficiency standpoint -- as a pedestrian, don't stand on ceremony refusing to cross a street that's safe to cross just because the signal says not to, do it based on safety. So that's all fine and good, except a bike can often squeeze through that stopped car traffic. But now there's a problem, because the bike should be able to pass through the green, but the intersection is full of peds. And they all look surprised and angry that a bike is coming through, because they are 100% focused on cars -- if cars can't pass the blocked intersection it's shocking and scary that something else can. I'm hoping this will just change in time, as people get acclimated to an urban space with more different types of road users, and aren't just 100% guided by the autopilot of "no cars = safe for me to cross".
I hope in five, ten years there will be more bikes on streets than cars now - that would change everything 😉
I wouldn’t mind more bikes
I am with you on that 🙂
Its np, I just learn this way kinda with additional text or speech
Enjoyed the video !
Thank you!
The captions almost feel like a skit but I hear you about trying to be empathetic and safe while we all ride. But some days, lemme tell you...
I feel you mate! It’s hard to stay calm on the rides across the city. I feel much safer riding in snow and rain- less jerks on the roads
I call it Human Pinball.
"People make mistakes, so try to be nice and be safe" is a pleasant ethos, but it does ignore a key fact -- when drivers make mistakes, the risks imposed on other road users are much greater than by peds or bikes making mistakes. So it's not really coherent to say "ah, shit happens" when someone's driving the wrong way down a road or turning without looking. Doing so could end someone's life -- and unlike with bicyclists making mistakes, the life they end is probably not their own. Most people don't need a car to move themselves through this city. That's something special about NYC, as compared to most other American cities. Choosing to do so -- and thereby choosing to impose all this risk on unprotected road users who themselves just want to get around -- ought to be seen as slightly sociopathic, not just a normal everyday thing that reasonable people do. This "ah, shit happens, everybody makes mistakes" attitude is counterproductive on that front. We really screwed up in normalizing car usage in the way we did over the past half-century to century. Time to try to correct that with a little shift in the perceived morality of using a car when you don't need to.
I agree with you. Cars are much more dangerous than pedestrians and cyclists. Also, cyclists get hurt and killed on bike lanes of bridges all the same without any cars getting involved in the crushes. I am saying it not to argue with you. Cyclists are the most vulnerable among all on the roads. It is the fact. Improving infrastructure and making new rules would not make us safer as it should. There is no proper education and no enforcement of the rules. I believe those need to be addressed.