@hedgehog said in RL Anger:
@Coin
Explain this weirdness of biking to me, if you could? We live along a major thoroughfare in our Chicago suburb, one that runs north-south. Bicycle riding is expressly forbidden along this corridor, because some civic planner, in their infinite wisdom, made a two lane street four lanes without actually widening them. Bike riding on the sidewalks parallel to this street is also forbidden for grown-ass adults; also, there are perfectly bike-friendly side streets a block east and west that they can ride on. This does not stop assholes from expecting pedestrians to move the hell out of their way while they barrel down the sidewalk on their fixed-gears. Why do they do this? Why not use the side streets with their four way stopsigns rather than ride illegally on the sidewalks and have to deal with stoplights, skateboarders, toddlers, dogs, strollers and bus stops? What is the logic?
[sigh]
Way to take a joke too seriously.
I don't live in Chicago, so I couldn't say. But where I live, for example, there are some streets (not enough) that have designated bike lanes upon which cars, buses, motorcycles, etc., cannot be.
Why, then, do I have to contend with motorcycles coming at me? Why do buses ride over the plastic divisors, blocking my path? Why do cars cross the street when the light is yellow and end up stuck by traffic in the midle of an intersection, not only blocking me, but everyone else? Why do dumbass pedestrians decide that because no cars are coming on a one -way street with a bike path, they can cross in the middle of the fucking street without looking both ways, almost making me crash into them? Why are some of these mother fucking idiots people with babies in strollers and old people with canes moving at about one mile every year of their overdue fucking life?
I don't know, man.
If I had to make an educated guess, I would say it's maybe because it doesn't matter how you commute, stupid is still fucking stupid.