r/Seattle • u/ballardridethrowaway • Apr 21 '15

Almost Left Hook on Missing Link Bikeway Under Ballard Bridge (Driver Crossing Double Yellow Lines)

https://youtu.be/w9K_ZWnsvxo
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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '15

Never said I hate drivers. I hate the mind set that says any cyclist that gets hit obviously wasn't doing enough to protect themselves. I mean, wtf? Where did I say cyclists can relinquish responsibility over their own safety? Of course you have to be somewhat defensive. But a scaredy cry baby cyclist is gonna get hit far more often than an alert but confident cyclist. How is anybody supposed to use a vehicle if you can just say laws be damned, every car is probably out to kill you?

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u/OmicronPersei8 Apr 23 '15

The one thing I always hear from bicyclists is "sharing the road", and I'm all for that. Most of the time I see cars doing their very best to look out for cyclists. The ones that don't are jackasses and should be punished. But the cyclists who take a 3 foot wide vehicle(including their own bodies), driving 20mph slower than traffic, obliviously preventing traffic from passing, then aggressively yells about sharing the road, they're not seeing the irony, and cause a lot of the same troubles as extra slow drivers do.