The need for speed

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

By DPM
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 9:17am

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

By anon
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 11:47am

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?

By Ron Newman
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 5:16pm

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

By DPM
Mon, 06/12/2023 - 9:17am

People 'mistakenly' park on crosswalks sidewalks, bike lanes every day in Boston.

How? Stupidity.

Be fair

By Michael
Mon, 06/12/2023 - 9:34am

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

By HenryAlan 2.0
Tue, 06/13/2023 - 9:49am

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

By anon
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 3:56pm

Oh, so it's the old two wrongs don't make a right but three do.

Who parks on the SW Corridor Path?

By HenryAlan 2.0
Tue, 06/13/2023 - 9:48am

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 ….

By Lee
Tue, 06/13/2023 - 11:36am

… 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.

By Lee
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 9:22am

Think that through.

weird logic

By cinnamngrl
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 10:20am

Drivers still break more laws than cyclist. keep gliding through the stop signs.

Citation please

By robo
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 10:24am

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?

By spin_o_rama
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 10:32am

Because you said this last Fall:

Second link says drivers and cyclists break road rules equally. Proves my point.

https://www.universalhub.com/2022/they-own-streets...

Still struggling with math, eh?

By robo
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 11:26am

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

By spin_o_rama
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 12:08pm

From the same comment previously quoted and you agreed with.

The results do not support the assumption that cyclists are reckless rule-breakers.

According to the study, bicyclists were in compliance with traffic laws 88 percent of the time during the day and 87 percent of the time at night. The observed compliance rate for drivers who interacted with participants was slightly lower, at 85 percent during the day. (There weren't enough nighttime driver observations to report a compliance rate.)

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/01/03/study-cycli...

Uh

By lbb
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 6:34pm

If cyclists and cars break laws at equal rates, doesn’t that mean a higher percentage of bikers are breaking laws vs cars?

Do you know what the word "rate" means?

Hint: it's not an absolute number.

They're not the same thing,

By xyz
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 10:55am

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"

By Rob
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 10:20pm

People are "injured by" whoever causes the crash, not by whoever brings the most force.

Since 90% of cyclist/car

By cinnamngrl
Mon, 06/12/2023 - 7:42am

Since 90% of cyclist/car crashes are cyclists being hit from behind, that would be cars.

how much money did I win on

By cinnamngrl
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 7:38pm

how much money did I win on this bet?

John, you're projecting again!

By spin_o_rama
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 10:22am

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-...

That's nice, dear

By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 10:51am

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

By robo
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 11:34am

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

By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 11:06am

If you are over age 16.

Do try to keep up with the actual laws.

Actual laws like no riding on the interstate?

By Section 77
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 12:08pm

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"

By U-Hub-Fan
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 6:03pm

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?

By HenryAlan 2.0
Tue, 06/13/2023 - 9:47am

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

By onelith
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 3:21am

They're putting bike lanes all over the place now! JK

This guy's an idiot

By jmeltzer
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 5:54am

but he's still most likely going faster than rush hour traffic. Maybe the Pike does need bike lanes.

Yeah, lets take away two

By anon
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 6:33am

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.

By Lee
Mon, 06/12/2023 - 7:15am

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

By anon
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 7:45am

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?

By lbb
Mon, 06/12/2023 - 10:53am

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 ...

By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 10:55am

Access for the existing alternatives needs to be better enforced, aka ticketing and towing vehicles that don't belong there.

Hear me out:

By Tim Mc.
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 6:40pm

"pike lanes"

Why?

By Ron Newman
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 8:57am

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,

By DPM
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 9:18am

Using car gpa on the bike, unfamiliar with the area would be my guess.

To have fun, piss people off

By BostonDog
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 9:33am

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

By SwirlyGrrl
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 10:57am

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

By Anon
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 12:11pm

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

By Anons
Sun, 06/11/2023 - 10:05am

Not all entrances have signs that show restricted access. And roads can be confusing for drivers not from around here.

The Interstates that allow

By anon
Mon, 06/12/2023 - 2:18am

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.

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