I have actually seen people screech this unironically in response to converting car spaces to bike parking

Daving cartoonist Walker Cycle

In China, they have a dedicated lane for parking bikes and motorcycles, as well as riding. The yellow bikes are 2USD/mo. By making bikes as cheap and convenient as possible, at the expense of what could be an entire carlane, they eliminate the demand for that car lane. There is a 2.50 fine if you park outside of the parking area, but youre never more than 10 feet from a parking zone.

In Seattle we throw those green scooters in a pile blocking the garage exit to the ICE facility.

They have their use cases.

Sure that's the problem. Not the fact that inner cities are completely clogged up with cars and everybody and everything else has to squeeze into the tiny spaces left over.

Do they also use the ones that people can ride for free if they know how to disengage the brake? You can also take them way outside their intended zone.

You often get them around Nottingham clicking away. Since Uber is involved, this feels ethical anyway. It is always ethical to steal from billionaires.

throw them off the sidewalk and into a car lane

Its just a bike. I do not care.

The thing is, you can look at the image a few seconds more and notice that there are plenty of cars obstructing the sidewalk more than the bike.

I feel like you've missed the point of the cartoon.

The cars are blocking the construction of better infrastructure for walking and cycling.

Where I come from roads are for motor vehicles and anything below 15mph shares the path/sidewalk. The national law started fucking with that and I've argued with my partner, who wants to follow the rules, against me, who thinks the rules are stupid and dangerous.

I went cycling with her recently, once, and while following her rules and the law, had three pricks. One in a car committed a blind hump overtake well above the speed limit to get past us - only incredibly dangerous - and two white van men were impatient also, one of which, at a traffic light, revved engine scaring my partner and pissing me off. I am a defiant person so I fight a threat. In this case I only took more time speeding up and flipped him off, because you know, I left my weapons at home. Bro nearly busted his engine to intimidate us, only to turn left and not even be slowed down by us.

Now she's scared to cycle because it's too dangerous on the road - duh - and she's also experienced pedestrian pricks too. It's not an apocalyptic or feudal era but you have to prepare to be assaulted before going out all the same.

There are pretty easy solutions for at least the e-blockage: dropoff zones. Big scooter is not quite there yet to go against a mediocre public backlash.

The car solution is super easy as well, there is just too much money to be made in that sector.

c/fuckbikes

I have this attitude when biking. In the US. At least I assume everyone has this attitude towards me. I'd rather be respectful to the people walking and piss off the cars. There are just too many times when taking the sidewalk on a bike makes the situation 10x safer for you.

But I'm not gonna be an asshole to people walking. If it's a busy area. I walk the bike. If it's an open area where I can see I'll ride the bike and stop/walk if I see someone ahead.

It's not often I have to. Usually I just take up the entire lane on the street and bother the cars. But I'll take the sidewalk for a bit if it makes it significantly safer to do so.

Oh, I also turn off the electric assist on my electric bike when I'm on sidewalks with people. No one wants to hear that noise.

Yes. Cars are 100x worse. But people normalize that because they have to. I want people walking to see bikers as nice and respectful by comparison.