Thanks to the bike party organizers!

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Anonymous wrote:I think event was a success. It confirmed to everyone that cyclists are spoiled children and are prone to tantrums when they don’t get their way.

As a follow up, I’d urge drivers to equip their vehicles with dash cameras and drive in accordance with the law AT ALL TIMES. Then, when one of these spandex narcissists blows through a light and runs into the side of your car, you can show police exactly what happened, the police will provide you with the rider’s contact info, and your insurance company will then sue them on your behalf for the damage he caused to the side of your car. You can wave at him (or flip him off) as he goes into the ambulance.

No, that's just you. However, I do endorse your suggestion to drivers to drive in accordance with the law at all times.

I prefer the dashcam suggestion. I have one and it is filled up with clips of cyclists doing outrageously reckless and dangerous things.

Just last week a cyclist wanted to jump the light for a left turn on Wisconsin and rode for a whole block into oncoming traffic. Makes it hard to justify going after ATV kids when cyclists are doing it every day.

If you want to use a dashcam, that's fine, I don't care. The important thing is that you drive in accordance with the law at all times.

Curious what you believe cyclists responsibility is to use public roads safely and in accordance with the law?

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Anonymous wrote:The grumpy people will continue to complain. I saw some video of the event and it looked like a lot of fun.

Exactly. And “fun” is one factor that should never be taken into account when making major transportation infrastructure decisions.

Fun and aesthetics should be the main concerns in transportation planning. Why build ugly, and anger inducing transportation infrastructure? Its how you get threads like this.

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Anonymous wrote:The entire event is designed to antagonize drivers. There is no other point to a large group of cyclists riding slowing down a major artery when tens of thousands of people are just trying to get home to their families. People can't even use the intersections when they have the green light. It's really obnoxious. It's terrible PR for cyclists.

It is a group of people riding from one area to another. There is nothing they are doing that is illegal. If you are taking that as antagonizing, that is on you. That isn't their goal. Just like you are driving from one place to another, they are riding from one place to another. If you feel they are blocking traffic (they are traffic too) then you should support a bike lane so they won't block your way in a car.

The city should not condone events designed to create road rage. Someone is going to get hurt one of these things.

Road rage is the baseline in this region doncha-know? Everyone is so important and has to be somewhere five-minutes ago. People also get hurt every single day by drivers.

If we could start pulling licenses for the most ragey of drivers, everyone would benefit.

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Anonymous wrote:The grumpy people will continue to complain. I saw some video of the event and it looked like a lot of fun.

Exactly. And “fun” is one factor that should never be taken into account when making major transportation infrastructure decisions.

Fun and aesthetics should be the main concerns in transportation planning. Why build ugly, and anger inducing transportation infrastructure? Its how you get threads like this.

Your brain has been corrupted by a childhood full of participation trophies and a higher education system preaching victimhood. I’m sorry you grew up when you did. Society has failed you and it’s not your fault. We won’t make this mistake with the next generation.

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Anonymous wrote:The entire event is designed to antagonize drivers. There is no other point to a large group of cyclists riding slowing down a major artery when tens of thousands of people are just trying to get home to their families. People can't even use the intersections when they have the green light. It's really obnoxious. It's terrible PR for cyclists.

It’s like the climate protestors who block traffic or the pro-Palestinian protestors who block traffic. They aren’t looking to persuade people or get support. They are simply seeking to protest.

Except no one was blocking the road. They were riding on it, as afforded under the law.

Were they riding only two abreast as the law requires?

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Anonymous wrote:The grumpy people will continue to complain. I saw some video of the event and it looked like a lot of fun.

Exactly. And “fun” is one factor that should never be taken into account when making major transportation infrastructure decisions.

Exactly. That's why all of the car ads show gloomy people, stuck in traffic, hating life. Like this one. Truth in advertising.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BicyclingBits/comments/f5awr7/sketch_from_annual_icelandic_lampoon_show/?rdt=45095

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Anonymous wrote:The entire event is designed to antagonize drivers. There is no other point to a large group of cyclists riding slowing down a major artery when tens of thousands of people are just trying to get home to their families. People can't even use the intersections when they have the green light. It's really obnoxious. It's terrible PR for cyclists.

It’s like the climate protestors who block traffic or the pro-Palestinian protestors who block traffic. They aren’t looking to persuade people or get support. They are simply seeking to protest.

Except no one was blocking the road. They were riding on it, as afforded under the law.

Were they riding only two abreast as the law requires?

The whole thing was illegal, which makes it funny to see these folks complain about cars following the law.

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Anonymous wrote:The entire event is designed to antagonize drivers. There is no other point to a large group of cyclists riding slowing down a major artery when tens of thousands of people are just trying to get home to their families. People can't even use the intersections when they have the green light. It's really obnoxious. It's terrible PR for cyclists.

It’s like the climate protestors who block traffic or the pro-Palestinian protestors who block traffic. They aren’t looking to persuade people or get support. They are simply seeking to protest.

Except no one was blocking the road. They were riding on it, as afforded under the law.

Were they riding only two abreast as the law requires?

The whole thing was illegal, which makes it funny to see these folks complain about cars following the law.

It also just makes people hate cyclists, which doesnt seem good for anyone. This stuff makes the streets less safe for everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The entire event is designed to antagonize drivers. There is no other point to a large group of cyclists riding slowing down a major artery when tens of thousands of people are just trying to get home to their families. People can't even use the intersections when they have the green light. It's really obnoxious. It's terrible PR for cyclists.

It’s like the climate protestors who block traffic or the pro-Palestinian protestors who block traffic. They aren’t looking to persuade people or get support. They are simply seeking to protest.

Except no one was blocking the road. They were riding on it, as afforded under the law.

Were they riding only two abreast as the law requires?

The whole thing was illegal, which makes it funny to see these folks complain about cars following the law.

It also just makes people hate cyclists, which doesnt seem good for anyone. This stuff makes the streets less safe for everyone.

The only people unhappy about it are the people who post on here and the krucoff crew, which may be one in the same

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The entire event is designed to antagonize drivers. There is no other point to a large group of cyclists riding slowing down a major artery when tens of thousands of people are just trying to get home to their families. People can't even use the intersections when they have the green light. It's really obnoxious. It's terrible PR for cyclists.

It’s like the climate protestors who block traffic or the pro-Palestinian protestors who block traffic. They aren’t looking to persuade people or get support. They are simply seeking to protest.

Except no one was blocking the road. They were riding on it, as afforded under the law.

Were they riding only two abreast as the law requires?

The whole thing was illegal, which makes it funny to see these folks complain about cars following the law.

It also just makes people hate cyclists, which doesnt seem good for anyone. This stuff makes the streets less safe for everyone.

People are cyclists. Cyclists are people.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The entire event is designed to antagonize drivers. There is no other point to a large group of cyclists riding slowing down a major artery when tens of thousands of people are just trying to get home to their families. People can't even use the intersections when they have the green light. It's really obnoxious. It's terrible PR for cyclists.

It’s like the climate protestors who block traffic or the pro-Palestinian protestors who block traffic. They aren’t looking to persuade people or get support. They are simply seeking to protest.

Except no one was blocking the road. They were riding on it, as afforded under the law.

Were they riding only two abreast as the law requires?

The whole thing was illegal, which makes it funny to see these folks complain about cars following the law.

It also just makes people hate cyclists, which doesnt seem good for anyone. This stuff makes the streets less safe for everyone.

The only people unhappy about it are the people who post on here and the krucoff crew, which may be one in the same

I think you mean the only people who know about it are the people who post here. It was a non-event for almost everybody.

All of y'all are trying to elevate it way beyond its meagre reality.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The entire event is designed to antagonize drivers. There is no other point to a large group of cyclists riding slowing down a major artery when tens of thousands of people are just trying to get home to their families. People can't even use the intersections when they have the green light. It's really obnoxious. It's terrible PR for cyclists.

It’s like the climate protestors who block traffic or the pro-Palestinian protestors who block traffic. They aren’t looking to persuade people or get support. They are simply seeking to protest.

Except no one was blocking the road. They were riding on it, as afforded under the law.

Were they riding only two abreast as the law requires?

The whole thing was illegal, which makes it funny to see these folks complain about cars following the law.

It also just makes people hate cyclists, which doesnt seem good for anyone. This stuff makes the streets less safe for everyone.

The only people unhappy about it are the people who post on here and the krucoff crew, which may be one in the same

I think you mean the only people who know about it are the people who post here. It was a non-event for almost everybody.

All of y'all are trying to elevate it way beyond its meagre reality.

So, did it impact 10,000 people during rush hour, or was it a blip?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The entire event is designed to antagonize drivers. There is no other point to a large group of cyclists riding slowing down a major artery when tens of thousands of people are just trying to get home to their families. People can't even use the intersections when they have the green light. It's really obnoxious. It's terrible PR for cyclists.

It’s like the climate protestors who block traffic or the pro-Palestinian protestors who block traffic. They aren’t looking to persuade people or get support. They are simply seeking to protest.

Except no one was blocking the road. They were riding on it, as afforded under the law.

Were they riding only two abreast as the law requires?

The whole thing was illegal, which makes it funny to see these folks complain about cars following the law.

It also just makes people hate cyclists, which doesnt seem good for anyone. This stuff makes the streets less safe for everyone.

The only people unhappy about it are the people who post on here and the krucoff crew, which may be one in the same

I think you mean the only people who know about it are the people who post here. It was a non-event for almost everybody.

All of y'all are trying to elevate it way beyond its meagre reality.

So, did it impact 10,000 people during rush hour, or was it a blip?

Both at the same time! It was a non-event that impacted 10,000 people during rush hour!!!11111!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The grumpy people will continue to complain. I saw some video of the event and it looked like a lot of fun.

Exactly. And “fun” is one factor that should never be taken into account when making major transportation infrastructure decisions.

Fun and aesthetics should be the main concerns in transportation planning. Why build ugly, and anger inducing transportation infrastructure? Its how you get threads like this.

Your brain has been corrupted by a childhood full of participation trophies and a higher education system preaching victimhood. I’m sorry you grew up when you did. Society has failed you and it’s not your fault. We won’t make this mistake with the next generation.

That's a weird opinion given that parkways and scenic roads date to the 19th Century, which would have been when you and most of your neighbors were kids.

Do you have pictures of elevated highways all over your walls or something?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The entire event is designed to antagonize drivers. There is no other point to a large group of cyclists riding slowing down a major artery when tens of thousands of people are just trying to get home to their families. People can't even use the intersections when they have the green light. It's really obnoxious. It's terrible PR for cyclists.

It’s like the climate protestors who block traffic or the pro-Palestinian protestors who block traffic. They aren’t looking to persuade people or get support. They are simply seeking to protest.

Except no one was blocking the road. They were riding on it, as afforded under the law.

Were they riding only two abreast as the law requires?

The whole thing was illegal, which makes it funny to see these folks complain about cars following the law.

It also just makes people hate cyclists, which doesnt seem good for anyone. This stuff makes the streets less safe for everyone.

The only people unhappy about it are the people who post on here and the krucoff crew, which may be one in the same

I think you mean the only people who know about it are the people who post here. It was a non-event for almost everybody.

All of y'all are trying to elevate it way beyond its meagre reality.

So, did it impact 10,000 people during rush hour, or was it a blip?

It was a one-off blip that the vast majority didn't even notice.

I was quite clearly talking to both of you.