This is from a regularly scheduled Everglades Bike Club weekend ride in Key Biscayne, USA, on a 10km stretch of road, and all the drivers know to expect it will be there in the mornings.

  • Aqivex@fedinsfw.app
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    Ya don’t break a rule; the car runs you over because distracted driver.

    Ya break a rule to avoid distracted driver; you get ran over because your rule breaking in your tiny and light bicycle triggered the road rage of someone in a SUV whose control was entirely based on spite and the fact everyone else should follow rules without exception (that the state legislature carved for cyclists to try to minimize their deaths).

    Being a cyclist commuter is fun, much recommended.

    • schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
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      The problem with cars is that they immediately make every other form of transportation incredibly shitty.

      Pedestrians and cyclists get killed. Buses get stuck in traffic.

      I hate cars, but what am I supposed to do? Getting out of my car is just an invitation to get killed by one. And if I wanted to live entirely without a car, I’d have to move to a city, where I would never be more than 12-feet away from cars and have to cross a road every block, risking my life because of shitty fucking cars.

      When we say, “We’re not saying get rid of cars, we’re just saying we need options”, to not scare the carbrains, well, the only way to have real options (ie safe roads) is to have roads entirely without cars.

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        I would love for my city center to become car free. There is like a square mile that would make so much sense.