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This community exists as a sister community/copycat community to the r/fuckcars subreddit.

This community exists for the following reasons:

to raise awareness around the dangers, inefficiencies and injustice that can come from car dependence.
to allow a place to discuss and promote more healthy transport methods and ways of living.

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You’re a Cyclist Who Was Just Struck by a Car Driver. Here’s Why It Was Your Fault (www.mcsweeneys.net)

submitted 1 year ago by pbrisgreat@midwest.social to c/fuck_cars@lemmy.ml

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McSweeney's bringing some hard truths with this one. We could all be doing better.

You forgot to go back in time and tell people that subsidizing the oil industry might be a bad idea.
When the oil and auto industries teamed up to bend public policy to their will, making a system of roads and parking lots that now function as a continuous subsidy and magnificent symbol of the normalization of injury and pollution, you had a lot of options. You could have objected. You could have shifted public opinion. Instead, you weren’t even born yet. And, rather than go back in time, all you’ve been doing is riding to get groceries and occasionally saying, “Please stop killing us.” On the effort scale? 1/10.

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[–] UID_Zero@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wild. I don't live where there are too many bikers, and I see bikes blow through red lights and stop signs frequently. I've had bikes fly past me through intersections while I was stopped at a red light on my bike.

I also haven't gone a day without seeing cars doing dumber shit. Cars are definitely more consistently stupid, but there's plenty to go around for everyone.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do your light systems detect bikes? Does your law allow bikes to treat lights as stops? I know a lot of lights here do not change unless they detect a car, so you are forced to run the light.

[–] UID_Zero@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair point. But even in that case, they should stop before proceeding. Most bikes I see run lights don't bother stopping, and it looks like they barely slow down if they can avoid it.

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Fair. Depending on the field of view and traffic conditions, stopping may be more dangerous though. But definitely have seen people pull some ridiculous running on red lights before (mostly cars), so I do not doubt that people have seen cyclists doing things they should not. I just know that people get mad even when cyclists do the safest option because either they don't understand the risks involved or they just don't like cyclists existing at all.