I wouldn't be able to hear him over my "get out of the way!get out of the way!get out of the way!"
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It's New York. Need to adjust to the local dialect. "Get out of my fucking way, you fucking asshole!" Anything less doesn't get through.
That's entirelly the mindset of the average car driver everywhere.
Were I am now, Portugal, when the police starts properly enforcing some rule of the road that's regularly not obbeyed (like, say the no parking on sidewalks one or the no running red lights in the next 30s after it has turned from yellow one) those types start bitching and moaning about how the police are "hunting for fines" - in other words, admitting that they're breaking the rules and claiming that the real problem is actually enforcing of the rules.
(By the way, unsurprisingly, Portugal is has one of the highest rates of road deaths in the whole of Europe).
They drive like maniacs there.
How many times I got hit by a mirror because you had to walk on the streets since all the cars parked on the footpath.
Unprotected bike lanes’ fatal flaw is that they rely on the honour system in a country where nobody has any.
I've cycled to work regularly in a couple of countries in Europe (including The Netherlands, which are pretty much Europe's Gold Standard on cycling infrastructure) and do and did paid attention to that kind of thing were I didn't.
In my experience there are ALWAYS assholes who for their own convenience will block the bike lane if they can get away with it. There might be more in some places and fewer in others, but they always exist - assholes fucking things up for the rest are a fact of life.
As I see it, the only solution for it is protected bike lanes were possible so that it's simply impossible for a car to go there and where that's not possible, speedy and stern enforcement (the "there's a tow truck there in 5 minutes top and the fines are painful" kind).
Thankfulky enough, I think Mamdani has stated in some recent interviews that he's working to make bike lanes actually protected, and just make the city more bike/pedestrian friendly. So things are looking up for them!
In my city I never (and I mean never - people just don't do it here, they even avoid getting caught in the fucked up turn lane stuff) see people drive in bike lanes, so this seems like a NY City asshole kind of thing.
I live in a city where most of the bike lanes are just a dedicated shoulder. When I'm driving on these roads, 100% of the time if I'm following someone, they will drift into the bike lane. I also ride my bike in that lane, so I'm extra alert to it. Not so much a parking issue, but lazy and distracted drivers are a plenty.
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With so many cops why would it rely on the honour system ?
I mean it should be the cops kicking out people off bike lanes... We have assholes like that in the EU but they sometimes get a fine for it and eventually some stop doing that kind of shit.
The problem is that it's not enforced by your police forces.
Hahahahahha you have way too much faith in lazy pigs. Writing tickets to motorists in the bike lane is way less fun than raping children and beating minorities.
Police in North America exist to protect the property and interests of the wealthy, not to enforce laws that help the average person
Dude, cops in NYC actively hate cyclists. If one saw this interaction they’d probably cite the biker
Apparently for NYC you can just search and see the amount of traffic violations, and this dickhead has a LOT
Damn.
$1200 for 19 violations. No wonder people don't care about the violations. Red light violation in my country is EUR 320 ($367)
In theory he should be paying a lot more to car insurance because of the points and sheer amount of violations. But maybe he's too wealthy to care about that either.
Edit: In many states in the US, they will suspend the license if they get too many points from violations like running red lights or speeding. Not sure how it works in New York state however.
Holy shit I’ve only gotten 1 ticket in my entire life and it was BS. It’s…really not hard to not break traffic laws.
NOT AT ALL trying to support this asshole but I know from experience it’s much harder in NYC. I know conventional wisdom is that nobody owns a car there — but there are more privately owned cars than there are parking spaces, and the city strictly enforces alternate-street parking.
His moving violations are because he’s a bad/selfish driver but it’s harder in NYC than almost anywhere else to avoid parking tickets, unless you’re rich enough to pay for a lot/garage, which is about the price of rent in another city.
Always plan accordingly for the conditions. It’s never ok for your lack of planning to become everyone else’s problem.
or break them just enough that you don't get a ticket.
11 speeding and red light incidents... less than $1200???? Thats absurd.
11 separate incidents being caught doing behaviour that has an increased chance of killing/maiming someone.... and less than $1200 in fines to deter that???
this person has proven that they REGULARLY break the law in a dangerous way... and they still allow him to get behind the wheel every morning... and one day when he kills someone, they'll call it an "accident"
There's nothing accidental about allowing this person to operate a 3 ton weapon every day
I feel like at some point those should start getting points against your license or something.
We have exactly this in germany. If you collect enough points, ur drivers license gets revoked.
Absolutely! 19 in 4 years is crazy. I've gotten 2 in 23 years, running a yellow light and not realizing the speed limit changes at night in Texas. Both of those fines were way more than $50. New York is dumb.
Seriously, Ive gotten one ticket in 20 years. One.
Alright there might be a little bit of capitalism at play. Fines so low they encourage people to just pay them.
Too steep and people will either avoid the infraction or dodge paying altogether.
So this is literally a rich people get to be assholes fee.
Where is it, Finland, that has fines as a percentage of income?
I think it's a great policy
Yep! They gave one guy a €100,000 ticket for speeding, lol.
The fine should go up exponentially with the number of violations (as well as income). First ticket? You screwed up. Tenth? You clearly don't care. Hundredth? You're doing it on purpose.
This guy pays about $200 a year to drive like an asshole.
At that point it's just a subscription product.
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Probably a cop
Would help a lot, if violations did not only cost money, but the driver's license eventually.
100 years of automobile propaganda has made us in North America forget that streets are for people to move, not for cars to move.
Streets are for emptying chamber pots.
Fuck this guy. It could've been a minor thing but he chose to be as obnoxious as possible about it just to be able to tell himself that he's the good guy.
Some people just shouldn't be allowed to get a car.
someone died on a main drag of road at about 3pm one day right before christmas. Car accident, car hit a guy on a moped.
I got out of work at 6 and had to take the road home. There was this absolute prick speeding, weaving through traffic and being dangerous. Speeding to the gas station, so I pulled in behind him. I told him somone died just hours earlier on this road from dangerous driving, someone lost thier son right before christmas and asked him to follow traffic laws, and slow down.
he goes, "sweetheart, I got places to be". I raised my voice, "so does everyone else, that doesnt mean you can speed and potentially kill someone, youre not special". drove off.
"I got places to be"
people are so selfish.
NYC?
There was a spot close to where i lived close to a kindergarten - it was a driveway for emergency vehicles, crossing over the sidewalk and closed off. Every fucking day for 2 hours in the morning and intermittent during the afternoon you had to dodge illegally parked cars there, most of the time not even leaving enough space for a wheelchair or a baby stroller while they dropped their own kids off.
There were perfectly fine legal parking spaces a few meters down the road.
It was more than "mildly infuriating", because it speaks of either a lack of self-awareness or a "fuck you, got mine"-mentality.
How many valve stems did you collect?
Don't collected the valve stems. That's property damage and it's illegal. Instead, buy a box of valve stem caps and a box of small BB's. Glue the BB's inside the caps and swap them out with the ones already on the nuisance car (tape the old ones to the tailgate so you aren't stealing), and go on about your day. It's gonna take them awhile to figure out why their tire keep deflating because nobody checks the caps, and it takes less than 30 seconds the bend down and "tie your shoe".
I like the spirit of your comment.
But slowly deflating tires can get dangerous for the people inside that vehicle and around.
Cars with four flat tires not so much.
I don't care for the property of assholes who don't care about the health and potentially lives of others.
It won't be a slow deflation. That BB will press against the valve stem and that tire will be flat in a couple of minutes at most. I'm not suggesting you do it to all 4 tires either. Just one would do in almost every scenario.
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