I sincerely think that someone parked in the bike lane (or fire lane or other places you’re not supposed to park for safety) should forfeit the protection of law. While your car is there, anyone inconvenienced by it should be allowed to just do whatever.
People are like “well I was just there for a minute!” and I’m like it takes less than a minute for a cyclist to swerve around the ill-placed car, get hit by some other car, and die, so that doesn’t seem convincing.
I just don’t care that you need your car to be there for personal convenience. Deal with it instead of making it everyone else’s problem.
I used to walk and take public transportation or bike just about everywhere. Then I became disabled and had to go back to mostly using a car. Even with my mobility disability, I would never, ever park in a bike lane, double park, park in a fire truck zone, etc. If there is no parking close enough to where I’m trying to go? I don’t go there. If it’s that important, I’ll go back another time and try again.
It’s not that hard to not be a dick inconveniencing everybody around you.
Hell, just yesterday I had to change my restaurant plans because I wouldn’t have been able to walk the distance required to get to the restaurant because there wasn’t any parking nearby. Not a big deal.
If you’re just there a minute, there is a correspondingly small chance someone will come along and do something to the car that inconvenienced or endangered them. It all works out just fine. Roll the dice.
I don’t think I understand. You want me to roll the dice with my life going around their car, so they can have an easier time getting coffee?
OP was clearly referring to car drivers.
Someone should invent a front-side “luggage rack” (battering ram) for a bike that they can pull out to accidentally ram into vehicles left in the bike lane.
As a car owner, this is an insane take. Burning the car would be so much worse for the environment. You should only get to burn the driver.
Or maybe everybody should breathe through their pants, calm down a bit, share the road, that kinda stuff.
breathe through their pants
…fart?
The largest single project in the world is the US National Highway System, and yet, somehow, all our public transit and trans-national train services suck.
You must love your car so much.
Great info, nice to meet you too.
I love my car, its my home away from home, but I’m all for burning cars that park in place they’re not supposed to, like bike lanes and bus stops, it’s not hard to park your car in a designated area you lazy fucks.
Fuck around and find out!
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Most cars can’t handle going off-road so it really isn’t true freedom of movement.
If I never had to drive again, I’d be so happy. My job requires I drive :(
I gotta say, I’m really lucky where I am now. I’m in a PhD program right now. My husband and I moved to a college town from the big sprawling traffic nightmare that is Houston a few years back. He’s able to work from home; I’m able to bike or take the bus to campus. We have just one car for the household, and we get gas once every couple months. It’s glorious.
Yeah, that sounds really nice. I work construction so almost every site is hard to reach with public transportation or, too far for biking.
My best option is to get a very fuel efficient vehicle or, a motorcycle lol
ALSO it should be legal for me to plow other cars out of my way because they are blocking my path.
Not just allowed, but encouraged, with bounties paid out
Teenagers took over lemmy, clearly.
“Bbut he said …, and then I said …, ha!”
I wish I was a teenager. I’m as far from a teenager as a teenager is from an infant! Obviously you’ve never been in a bike lane, a car parked in front of you, dense traffic whizzing by to the left of you. If you had, you want to start setting things on fire as well.
I don’t. I want regulations and fines.
But where I live you will get a hefty fine for parking in a bike lane, and after some repeated offenses you’ll be sent for a driver’s re-education with your license being suspended till you’re done. So, I do occasionally see a car being parked in a bike lane. And I don’t wanna burn them. I remember I voted for the right party in the last elections, and that I live in the country where law and order prevail, and that the douche will get what he deserves.
In the meantime drivers around me have the ability to see that my lane is blocked, and I have the ability to signal with my hand that I need to merge. We respectfully resolve me cycling around the parked car and I continue my journey.
It appears to me you live in a place where laws really don’t work, and so you feel desperate enough to justify property damage to those who don’t abide by some laws that you find very important. It’s a very dangerous trope. And it rarely leads to better societies.
Sure. But that assumes police see cyclists as human beings rather than vermin that deserve to be run over. And in my experience, that is usually not the case. It is rare for a driver to get so much as a ticket for murdering a cyclist with their vehicle. Hell, half the time the vehicle parked in the bike lane is a police cruiser. And most cops are so obese they would crush any bicycle they tried to ride.
Dude, you really live in a fucked up place. And I seriously think burning cars isn’t going to help. Your problems go much much deeper.
If you live in a place where police doesn’t obide by the law, you need to rally for serious structural reforms. And for law and order, instead of doing stupid illegal shit and yelling “anarchy! ACAB!”.
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Oh, sorry, I’m talking to you like you were an actual stranger. Ofc I know you’re from the default country trying to score regular circle-jerk lemmy points.
Personally I like both ideas, I say we do a trial run for the next year and we can tally up the score then.
Who’s in?
Name calling… Check Unsubstantiated claims… Check Fake quotes… Check Rampant escalation of violence… Check
Yup, quality post we got here guys. I haven’t even had a cup of coffee yet.
Look, if we in ‘fuckcars’ can’t agree on entirely reasonable things like setting fire to cars parked in bike lanes, what are we even doing? 😂
Ha, I get it. Lots of stuff here is posted super seriously. It’s easy to incite this community where it spills over into others.
I suppose the joke part of this didn’t sink in. I refer to my earlier comment about lack of coffee. :)
Ever try blowing up a car and burn your mouth on the exhaust? No, be reasonable…you set it on fire!
Wait, are you meaning to imply no one has ever suggested drivers should be allowed to run over protesters in then us? Bills submitted to red-state legislatures have made news.
Are you sure you want to try to take this hill?
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