Amazon delivery vans were parked in bike lanes all over Cambridge today.
Amazon delivery vans were parked in bike lanes all over Cambridge today.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/33126960
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I have to deal with similar issues in my neighbourhood; any service vehicle will have to block the bike lane because that houses driveway is already full of vehicle.
Service vehicle never "have" to block the bike lane. They could simply block the general purpose lane instead.
In other words, they are making a deliberate choice to fuck cyclists' safety in order to prioritize convenience for car drivers.
Well...yes, in most areas that inconveniences 3 people vs 300. Bicyclists, despite their entire personality being geared around it, are not by default better or more valuable than people driving cars.
But are people driving cars better and more valuable than cyclists?
Have you ever been to China? Holland?
If cycling wasn't so dangerous and given lower priority there would be many more cyclists and fewer cars. We see this wherever town planners make this change.
Less car traffic in general is better for everyone, even the drivers. It doesn't matter if you think that cyclists are annoying or holier than thou. It doesn't matter what kind of people they are at all. They could all be assholes, that doesn't change the fact that cars are bad actually.
Cool story. Not really relevant to anything I said but cool nonetheless.
I can see how you'd think that if you didn't read it or pay attention to any of the pertinent details.
What cyclists are more of, compared to people driving cars, is vulnerable, which means they're more important to protect -- by not blocking bike lanes and forcing them to mix with car traffic, for example!
But that's an irrelevant point if you live, as most Americans do, in an area where nobody is biking to begin with.
Curious how it never occurs to them to block the driving lane, or you know, park around the corner.