Pedestrians always have the right of way.
I'm amazed that cyclists are so poorly educated about the same roads they beg us to keep clean for them.
And that's as it should be. I shouldn't have to fear for my cars paint job from roving bands of cyclists, as often occur here near pch.
Really? I have 6 bicycles in my garage. Do I need to pay license and registration fees on all 6 of them even though I can only ride one at a time? How about my kid's bikes? Do I need to register and insure each of those too? Where does the money grab end? What is that money going to be used for? All the non-existent wear and tear I put on the roads?
I think we should encourage cycling as a means of transportation, not discourage it.
:thumbsdown: I am totally against this.
Yeap, and I honestly think we need to get rid of this.
If I jump out into live 75mph freeway traffic, is it the driver's fault? I had the right of way! RIGHT?! RIGHT?!???? FUCKING ASSHOLE DRIVERS!!!
^ That is the thought process of pedestrians today, except in slightly less situations.
Ciclists want all the benefits of cars but non of the downsides. They don't want to follow the laws, they don't want to help pay for them. But they have no problem holding lanes and blocking traffic, or mauling some poor lady in a crosswalk who dares be in their way.
Heh.. looks like I pushed somebody's button.You mean this one?
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That's a laughable claim.
I have no power to ban you. And being stupid has hardly been an impediment for posters here. Have you looked around P&N lately? The general rule of thumb has always been: don't want to be banned? Don't be an asshole.
that is an interesting case.
the laws are there to protect her from being killed but i don't think she sees it that way.
refusing to drive on what looks like a paved shoulder makes it seem like she is trying to prove a point.
a point that is moot when she is run down by a kia and the driver of the car is prosecuted for murder or whatever when the cyclist was given instructions by a judge to get on the shoulder.
Allegedly this is where the accident took place.
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.770...!3m5!1e1!3m3!1sylxsfAK_RZVO41EYQaBDVw!2e0!3e5
This crosswalk has a traffic light, not a stop or a yield. There's even a yellow caution sign at the crosswalk, letting pedestrians know to be careful of cars.
Some are stating that Marshall had the green light, but was outside the bike lane and speeding. He often bragged about going faster than Central Park's 25mph speed limit, sometimes approaching speeds of 35mph.
Really? I have 6 bicycles in my garage. Do I need to pay license and registration fees on all 6 of them even though I can only ride one at a time? How about my kid's bikes? Do I need to register and insure each of those too? Where does the money grab end? What is that money going to be used for? All the non-existent wear and tear I put on the roads?
I think we should encourage cycling as a means of transportation, not discourage it.
:thumbsdown: I am totally against this.
Allegedly this is where the accident took place.
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.770...!3m5!1e1!3m3!1sylxsfAK_RZVO41EYQaBDVw!2e0!3e5
This crosswalk has a traffic light, not a stop or a yield. There's even a yellow caution sign at the crosswalk, letting pedestrians know to be careful of cars.
Some are stating that Marshall had the green light, but was outside the bike lane and speeding. He often bragged about going faster than Central Park's 25mph speed limit, sometimes approaching speeds of 35mph.
So in other words the woman who was struck was at fault.
Marshall, a studio session saxophonist, told cops he couldn’t say how fast he was pedaling down the park’s West Drive when he slammed into Tarlov, source said.
“We don’t know how fast he was going,” one frustrated investigator conceded Friday night.
But Marshall, 31, of East Harlem, likes to go very fast — and boasts about it online almost every day.
He uses a GPS and other software to track his maximum and average speeds during his often twice-daily rides through the park, The Post has found.
His blazing speeds are uploaded — precise to the 10th of a mile per hour — onto a competitive running and cycling Web site.
“New Chain, brakes and RD(7800gs),” he had boasted earlier Thursday on the Strava site, referring to a new rear derailleur for his bike. “All systems go.”
Hours before he slammed into Tarlov, Marshall had logged 32.2 miles of cycling during a predawn spin through the park, the site says — and listed his top speed for that ride at 35.6 mph, well over the 25 mph speed limit for bikes and cars.
His maximum speed during five sprints on that same downhill stretch of West Drive during his Thursday-morning ride was 28.9 mph, his data on Strava says.
Marshall — who appeared to have logged every one of his 9,000 miles ridden so far this year — left no record of the one afternoon ride that put Tarlov in the hospital.
After the crash, he admitted to cops he was in the wrong lane but insisted he wasn’t speeding, had the green light and had shouted to warn Tarlov as he approached, law-enforcement sources said.
But so far, witnesses have told cops that Marshall appeared to be going at a high rate of speed and had tried to swerve rather than brake.
Get a life. I can drive 3x better than your geezer ass can while texting and getting a blowjob from your daughter.
I doubt he was going faster than 25 unless it was downhill. And riding outside of bike lane is not a big deal, actually should have given the lady more time to see him. Plus it's not a real bike lane, there are pedestrians using it, so it was the safe and legal thing for him to do to be in the car lane if he was riding 25mph. If he had the green light, it was entirely her fault and he should sue her estate for any injuries he sustained, physical or psychological, and damage to his bike.
Fuck you for having no life and no friends, and being angry at every person who does.
Or is that not what you're REALLY angry about, engineer
Are you a cyclist? Because they constantly endanger the safety of people on the road.
Unlike you, however, I'm not a foaming psychopath bent on making everyone follow my rules.
And you're not the one laughing, I am, so who cares if you think it's funny? Not me.
Interesting statistics, so 16:1 ratio of car to bycicle injuries.
I wonder what the ratio is of bikes to cars on NYC roads? I would guess that it would actually be close to that 16:1 number. If it's lower, then bikes are actually even worse than cars!
Your statistics paint a grim picture of bike to pedestrian interaction in NYC. None of those 1000 people NEEDED to be injured. They ( the cyclists) could've taken the fucking bus!
But they didn't, and that's ok. There is a certain possibility there is some cyclists headlight waiting to break my neck when I step out the door, but I take that risk. There is a risk I'll get hit by somebody texting in a supremely ironic way, but I take that risk too.
You aren't very good at math either...
Per the numbers cited, its closer to 30:1.
Consider how much you drive, and how much you talk. Now imagine you do both at much higher frequency (because you live in Southern California and have to drive to work and back in hours of traffic, or whatever). What is your solution then? Pull over on the 405 in rush hour traffic? Not answer calls, emails, or texts for 1-2hrs? Sometimes that's not a fucking option.
You guys talking shit about texting probably live in Idaho and work at home.
And i have a Bluetooth headset retard. I'm taking about emails and to a lesser degree texts. I mostly email in my car when I break the law.