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The need for speed
By adamg on Sat, 06/10/2023 - 10:34pm
Kaitlin snapped this guy outbound on the turnpike at Clarendon Street this evening.
Earlier:
Pike bike in Allston.
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No helmet
And riding on a restricted use road?! Typical biker. Just need a red light to complete the trifecta
Biker here
This is unacceptable riding.
Biker here.
I’m fine with it.
Nothing happened and he got where he was going.
Car Driver, Sometime Bike Rider Here
I am taking a rented Ford F250 down the Minuteman based on your understanding of laws.
The signs at the entrance ramps to the Pike specifically prohibit Horses, Bikes, and Pedestrians.
If you are ok with breaking those laws, don't have your loser arse whine when someone does something with a motor on the Somerville Community Path, The Minuteman, or other bike path. Bike paths which specifically prohibit motor vehicles.
Things can go both ways. See that? If you think it is ok to break laws, don't be a crybaby when one goes against you.
Then again you laugh at people catching on fire and you make catty references to someone dying so your base asshole self probably cannot understand logic or reason.
Go check out any local bike
Go check out any local bike lanes and get back to me.
Edit: Take a look at the southwest corridor behind bpd. It's treated like overflow parking.
Also, is a Range Rover a bicycle?
All these comments are insane
All these comments are insane. This guy made a mistake and he was probably completely terrified the entire time until he got out of it. But once you are down there what else can you do besides keep going until there's someplace to escape?
How do you make this mistake?
You have to go past multiple signs saying that you are entering an Interstate and a toll road, that no bicycles are allowed, etc.
People 'mistakenly' park on
People 'mistakenly' park on crosswalks sidewalks, bike lanes every day in Boston.
How? Stupidity.
Be fair
Not just stupidity but also the 100% assurance that the police are too busy doing [note to self: look up what the hell it is that the police do all day] to write tickets
Not so much mistakenly, as an assumption of privilege
People who park in such places mostly know exactly what they are doing, they simply don't care or feel entitled to do as they please, so long as it doesn't negatively impact them personally.
Oh, so it's the old two
Oh, so it's the old two wrongs don't make a right but three do.
Who parks on the SW Corridor Path?
Lots of cops (I assume) park on the sidewalk across the street from BPD HQ, but I've never seen anybody parked behind it on the bike path.
I recall a few years ago ….
… pretty much the entire bike path behind the police station full of parked cars.
I’ve seen fewer cars parked on it other times also.
Calm down, John Boy.
Think that through.
weird logic
Drivers still break more laws than cyclist. keep gliding through the stop signs.
Citation please
I’d wager a lot of money the percent of bikers breaking laws vs cars breaking laws is massively leaning bikers.
Do you count as a citation?
Because you said this last Fall:
https://www.universalhub.com/2022/they-own-streets-one-night-anyway#comm...
Still struggling with math, eh?
If cyclists and cars break laws at equal rates, doesn’t that mean a higher percentage of bikers are breaking laws vs cars? I’ll help you - it does. There are a lot more cars than bicycles.
*Almost equal percentages Robert
From the same comment previously quoted and you agreed with.
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/01/03/study-cyclists-dont-break-traffic...
Uh
Do you know what the word "rate" means?
Hint: it's not an absolute number.
They're not the same thing,
They're not the same thing, though: I would imagine that far more people are injured by drivers breaking laws, since one law both follow is that force equals mass times acceleration.
People are "injured by"
People are "injured by" whoever causes the crash, not by whoever brings the most force.
Since 90% of cyclist/car
Since 90% of cyclist/car crashes are cyclists being hit from behind, that would be cars.
how much money did I win on
how much money did I win on this bet?
John, you're projecting again!
You mock people who need assistance and you make catty ableist references so your base self probably cannot understand logic or reason.
https://www.universalhub.com/2023/really-smashing-wall-jamaica-plain#com...
That's nice, dear
Note that this is newsworthy - aka rare (it is also stupid - but blindly following GPS directions causes a lot more motorized mayhem than nonmotorized).
Unlike much of the horrific driving that all of us see and that people like you have normalized that doesn't get reported. My husband recently put up a dash-cam video of someone illegally driving down the bike bus lane in Malden through two red lights before swinging across the proper travel lane to take a left turn - far more dangerous than what we see here, yet you would defend that as motor privilege.
So much dangerously illegal driving recorded on the fly - and I don't even drive much.
Nice try
I absolutely would not defend that behavior and have said so in the past. I would fully support the driver receiving a massive fine and loss of license. You on the other hand, defend bikes running red lights because they cause less damage if something were to happen. Pot, meet kettle.
No helmet required
If you are over age 16.
Do try to keep up with the actual laws.
Actual laws like no riding on the interstate?
Funny how people only care about the law when it supports them, and call it an evil when it doesn't.
No, it's not at all "typical"
Can we please stop this? It's not cute.
There are idiot cyclists and there are idiot drivers. 90% percent of the time they're probably the same people.
This battle here on U-Hub is beyond tedious.
Typical?
LOL, no, not at all typical. You probably think nobody uses bike lanes, too, but yet somehow come to the conclusion that there are all manner of bike riders on the Pike. Dumb comment.
Bike lanes
They're putting bike lanes all over the place now! JK
This guy's an idiot
but he's still most likely going faster than rush hour traffic. Maybe the Pike does need bike lanes.
Yeah, lets take away two
Yeah, lets take away two lanes and make them seldom used bike and bus lanes. Traffic becomes worse. Problem solved.
A bus lane would be a good idea.
Fellow passengers and I would have greatly appreciated one a few years ago when I was traveling by express bus a couple of days a week between downtown and Newton Corner at rush hours.
What problem
would that solve? The whole challenge with bicycles on city streets is not that bicycles get stuck in traffic but that bicycles can't keep up with traffic.
What "city" are you talking about?
Have you driven in Boston in rush hour?
The reason I started biking to work was watching all those bikes flying past the 57 bus. When the lanes are clear, the 57 beats anything but a sport bike, but during rush hour, a bike gets you there faster.
Maybe ...
Access for the existing alternatives needs to be better enforced, aka ticketing and towing vehicles that don't belong there.
Hear me out:
"pike lanes"
Why?
If he's going to the next exit, Allston/Cambridge, the Esplanade bike path will take him to the same place.
Using car gpa on the bike,
Using car gpa on the bike, unfamiliar with the area would be my guess.
To have fun, piss people off
I think he's a dope but every so often someone rides a bike on one of those roads around here just for yucks.
It's not any more suicidal and far less illegal than drunk driving, something that is sadly ubiquitous.
He doesn't represent other bike riders any more than one Dunkins patron represents all their other customers.
Usually not a solo activity
That nonsense tends to involve groups and lots of riding wheelies. I suspect this guy is just doing what the robot tells him to - but without shutting down a major transit line at rush hour.
There's a moat between the
There's a moat between the Charles river bike paths and the rest of the city (storrow highway). To encourage speeding and prioritze suburban drivers over people who live nearby, there aren't any crosswalks across storrow hway so you have to find one of the infrequent overpasses and bike up and over, adding lots of time and inconvenience to using the River paths for getting around as opposed to recreation.
Some places in the US (and world) allow bikes on interstates
Not all entrances have signs that show restricted access. And roads can be confusing for drivers not from around here.
The Interstates that allow
The Interstates that allow bikes are all in rural areas. Usually because there is not alternate route, as the Interstate took the place of the older highway. And typically the signs require bikes to exit at every interchange, so they aren’t crossing any traffic streams.