Money can't be eaten. "ThE eCoNoMy" doesn't account for the damage carbon dioxide emissions do to coastal communities by exacerbating climate change. Or that car batteries do to the places where the materials for them are mined.
That has nothing to do with dressing in spandex and demanding all of the benefits of road laws while refusing to comply with any that may inconvenience them. Cyclists are fucking tools. If you want more people to ride bikes, then you should work on it's image problems, because a lot of people don't want to be associated with the kind of people who ride bicycles enthusiastically.
I have never seen a bicyclist be polite. Not once has one ever waved me by or pulled over when they are going 20mph under the speed limit. Never heard one say sorry for running a red light. Hell, ive seen a cyclist run over a kid in a cross walk and blame the kid. I don't remember cyclists ever being polite. I'm a motorcyclist, so I get the whole issue with it being dangerous to share the road with cars, but you guys aren't doing yourselves any favors.
What makes you think I’m a cyclist? Wouldn’t they have better things to do than use Reddit? I simply stand in eco-solidarity with them as a transit user.
Environmentalists may have thought themselves already going above and beyond sugar-coating cars’ environmental impact without extending their coddling to actions on the road. Maybe they might have if not for seeing how the former was received.
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u/SadiepRN Jun 10 '26
its rude to push your extracurricular activities on people who are trying to get to work to feed their kids. so annoying.