PSA! IF YOU HAVE BIKE LANES IN FRONT OF YOUR BUILDING PLEASE SHOVEL THEM!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I do... will you bike supremacists actually use the bike lanes and GTFO the sidewalk?!! Because my DC neighborhood is really well served by bike lanes, but cyclists still insist on scattering pedestrians (especially mothers carrying bags on one arm and holding a child by the hand with the other) on every block of the sidewalks.

Equalizer?

We have a lawful right to ride on the sidewalk if we deem conditions in the street are too unsafe. So with all due respect, sit down and shut up.

Aggressive much?

No labels for the guy above who threatened a stick in the spokes of a bike?

Some will call him a hero. I’ll only say he’s a badassmofo.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yet again the city has utterly failed people who are car free or lower income by not clearing bike lanes, so I’m appeal8ng directly to the people with sections of bike lanes in front of their buildings - PLEASE clear off your bike lanes.

TIA.

NO...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I do... will you bike supremacists actually use the bike lanes and GTFO the sidewalk?!! Because my DC neighborhood is really well served by bike lanes, but cyclists still insist on scattering pedestrians (especially mothers carrying bags on one arm and holding a child by the hand with the other) on every block of the sidewalks.

We have a lawful right to ride on the sidewalk if we deem conditions in the street are too unsafe. So with all due respect, sit down and shut up.

F the bikes!

And the a-hole men that ride them!

Women don't ride bikes?

Women do ride bikes. Children and teenagers also ride bikes.

Not the way those a-hole male cyclists do!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:True, except many of you conveniently or selfishly ignore the fact that you must yield to pedestrians while riding on the sidewalk. Instead, you ride with the expectation that people will part for you like the Red Sea and get angry when having to ride around people or slow down.

That's what gets me. A lot of bike people here endlessly complain about cars not giving them proper deference, but then they go ahead and just plow towards groups of pedestrians ringing their bells and expecting them to jump out of the way (and getting pissed if they don't). You see this a lot on trails as well. I don't see why they can't simply do what almost all drivers do when they get stuck behind a bike - slow down, match the speed of the pedestrians, and wait for an opening to go around them when it presents itself.

Their current attitude is the equivalent of a driver speeding at a cyclist on the road and blaring their horns telling them to get out of the way. Everyone would agree the driver in that situation is the jerk, yet it's how cyclists routinely treat pedestrians.

Traffic is flowing in both directions on those trails. People spread out in walking groups and fail to share the trail. It is so easy for one person in the group to move to the right and allow the biker to pass. People have their dogs on and off leashes running across the trail paths. The trails are for both bikers and walkers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I do... will you bike supremacists actually use the bike lanes and GTFO the sidewalk?!! Because my DC neighborhood is really well served by bike lanes, but cyclists still insist on scattering pedestrians (especially mothers carrying bags on one arm and holding a child by the hand with the other) on every block of the sidewalks.

We have a lawful right to ride on the sidewalk if we deem conditions in the street are too unsafe. So with all due respect, sit down and shut up.

This is why I walk in the middle in the sidewalk or the middle of the trail when cyclists are around. Don't give them any space to pass because if they give them a little they will pass unsafely. It's the same idea as taking the whole lane on a road.

You're bold and crazy ASF. I saw a biker clip a walker on Lake Artemesia because the walker refused to share the path, and continue into the wooded area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I do... will you bike supremacists actually use the bike lanes and GTFO the sidewalk?!! Because my DC neighborhood is really well served by bike lanes, but cyclists still insist on scattering pedestrians (especially mothers carrying bags on one arm and holding a child by the hand with the other) on every block of the sidewalks.

We have a lawful right to ride on the sidewalk if we deem conditions in the street are too unsafe. So with all due respect, sit down and shut up.

If you hurt someone’s kid with your bike, that parent gets a free pass to go mama grizzley on your sorry ass

[Anonymous]

No. The city created these atrocities and they can maintain them. Or get your happy bicycling ass out there and shovel yourself. JFC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:True, except many of you conveniently or selfishly ignore the fact that you must yield to pedestrians while riding on the sidewalk. Instead, you ride with the expectation that people will part for you like the Red Sea and get angry when having to ride around people or slow down.

That's what gets me. A lot of bike people here endlessly complain about cars not giving them proper deference, but then they go ahead and just plow towards groups of pedestrians ringing their bells and expecting them to jump out of the way (and getting pissed if they don't). You see this a lot on trails as well. I don't see why they can't simply do what almost all drivers do when they get stuck behind a bike - slow down, match the speed of the pedestrians, and wait for an opening to go around them when it presents itself.

Their current attitude is the equivalent of a driver speeding at a cyclist on the road and blaring their horns telling them to get out of the way. Everyone would agree the driver in that situation is the jerk, yet it's how cyclists routinely treat pedestrians.

Traffic is flowing in both directions on those trails. People spread out in walking groups and fail to share the trail. It is so easy for one person in the group to move to the right and allow the biker to pass. People have their dogs on and off leashes running across the trail paths. The trails are for both bikers and walkers.

Right if way is:

Horses (on trails like W&OD) and animals (squirrels don’t have to move for anyone! LOL)

Then, Pedestrians

And then, bikes, scooters, and what have you.

Cyclists need to slow down, pedestrians do not need to yield just as cyclists don’t need to yield to cars in shared roads. Slow the f* down on trails, Lycra mafia.

And pedestrians, stay out of dedicated bike lanes.

And no, no one should be expecting people to shovel trails or bike lanes outside their homes. Sidewalks vary by jurisdiction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I do... will you bike supremacists actually use the bike lanes and GTFO the sidewalk?!! Because my DC neighborhood is really well served by bike lanes, but cyclists still insist on scattering pedestrians (especially mothers carrying bags on one arm and holding a child by the hand with the other) on every block of the sidewalks.

We have a lawful right to ride on the sidewalk if we deem conditions in the street are too unsafe. So with all due respect, sit down and shut up.

F the bikes!

And the a-hole men that ride them!

Women don't ride bikes?

In my central DC neighborhood, the sidewalk cyclists are almost always grown-assed men... who ride on sidewalks immediately adjacent to our ample bike lanes.

[Anonymous]

The city builds this stuff and then makes no provision for maintaining it. The same issue in Cleveland Park where the new "promenade," which replaced the service lane, was mostly icy for the past week. No one knew who had responsibility to shovel/salt it.

[Anonymous]

I have a small confession to make. I wouldn’t call it a change of hear but certainly challenged my own stereotypes.

This weekend I was driving around DC and after I read this thread was really was paying attention to who was out cycling. I have a solid idea of who I was watching for, cyclists with their expensive bikes with Lycra.

The bikers I saw this weekend were working class mostly men. Lots of Hispanics, some women in rental bikes. So I felt bad for all of them and the icy lanes.

I guess the bicyclists I have in mind are the aholes who cut people off, travel in packs, and blast through red lights and they’re expensive bicycles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a small confession to make. I wouldn’t call it a change of hear but certainly challenged my own stereotypes.

This weekend I was driving around DC and after I read this thread was really was paying attention to who was out cycling. I have a solid idea of who I was watching for, cyclists with their expensive bikes with Lycra.

The bikers I saw this weekend were working class mostly men. Lots of Hispanics, some women in rental bikes. So I felt bad for all of them and the icy lanes.

I guess the bicyclists I have in mind are the aholes who cut people off, travel in packs, and blast through red lights and they’re expensive bicycles.

Thank you, PP, for seeing the invisible bicyclists. The people who are using bike lanes in DC aren't packs of men in expensive gear on expensive road bikes doing time trials; they're regular people, on regular bikes, just trying to get where they're going, like everyone else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:True, except many of you conveniently or selfishly ignore the fact that you must yield to pedestrians while riding on the sidewalk. Instead, you ride with the expectation that people will part for you like the Red Sea and get angry when having to ride around people or slow down.

That's what gets me. A lot of bike people here endlessly complain about cars not giving them proper deference, but then they go ahead and just plow towards groups of pedestrians ringing their bells and expecting them to jump out of the way (and getting pissed if they don't). You see this a lot on trails as well. I don't see why they can't simply do what almost all drivers do when they get stuck behind a bike - slow down, match the speed of the pedestrians, and wait for an opening to go around them when it presents itself.

Their current attitude is the equivalent of a driver speeding at a cyclist on the road and blaring their horns telling them to get out of the way. Everyone would agree the driver in that situation is the jerk, yet it's how cyclists routinely treat pedestrians.

Traffic is flowing in both directions on those trails. People spread out in walking groups and fail to share the trail. It is so easy for one person in the group to move to the right and allow the biker to pass. People have their dogs on and off leashes running across the trail paths. The trails are for both bikers and walkers.

Right if way is:

Horses (on trails like W&OD) and animals (squirrels don’t have to move for anyone! LOL)

Then, Pedestrians

And then, bikes, scooters, and what have you.

Cyclists need to slow down, pedestrians do not need to yield just as cyclists don’t need to yield to cars in shared roads. Slow the f* down on trails, Lycra mafia.

And pedestrians, stay out of dedicated bike lanes.

And no, no one should be expecting people to shovel trails or bike lanes outside their homes. Sidewalks vary by jurisdiction.

I am a runner. Until cyclists get off the sidewalk, I am 100% using that bike lane to run, bypassing them and pet owners who can’t curb their huge dogs.

But otherwise I agree with you. Cyclists on trails are the worst, and flat out dangerous towards pedestrians.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:True, except many of you conveniently or selfishly ignore the fact that you must yield to pedestrians while riding on the sidewalk. Instead, you ride with the expectation that people will part for you like the Red Sea and get angry when having to ride around people or slow down.

That's what gets me. A lot of bike people here endlessly complain about cars not giving them proper deference, but then they go ahead and just plow towards groups of pedestrians ringing their bells and expecting them to jump out of the way (and getting pissed if they don't). You see this a lot on trails as well. I don't see why they can't simply do what almost all drivers do when they get stuck behind a bike - slow down, match the speed of the pedestrians, and wait for an opening to go around them when it presents itself.

Their current attitude is the equivalent of a driver speeding at a cyclist on the road and blaring their horns telling them to get out of the way. Everyone would agree the driver in that situation is the jerk, yet it's how cyclists routinely treat pedestrians.

The cyclist has the moral high ground.

Over people who are walking? Why?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a small confession to make. I wouldn’t call it a change of hear but certainly challenged my own stereotypes.

This weekend I was driving around DC and after I read this thread was really was paying attention to who was out cycling. I have a solid idea of who I was watching for, cyclists with their expensive bikes with Lycra.

The bikers I saw this weekend were working class mostly men. Lots of Hispanics, some women in rental bikes. So I felt bad for all of them and the icy lanes.

I guess the bicyclists I have in mind are the aholes who cut people off, travel in packs, and blast through red lights and they’re expensive bicycles.

Thank you, PP, for seeing the invisible bicyclists. The people who are using bike lanes in DC aren't packs of men in expensive gear on expensive road bikes doing time trials; they're regular people, on regular bikes, just trying to get where they're going, like everyone else.

Yeah, I think it was worth mentioning since I have such concrete opinions about cyclists. I think I’m going to have two categories. Cyclists a.k.a. you know who. And “people on bicycles” who are just regular folks getting to point A to point B.