# Get your car out of the fucking cycle lane **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 4, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-car-out-of-the-fucking-cycle-lane/179704 "2003-06-04T22:09:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![manwithaplan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@manwithaplan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manwithaplan)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-car-out-of-the-fucking-cycle-lane/179704/41 "2003-06-05T17:17:27Z")
I have a confession to make. I am an extremely inconsiderate cyclist. I cycle on the path, I break red lights, I don’t wear a helmet and I roar self-righteously at motorists and pedestrians when they behave in a similar fashion. Someone should really enforce the law. Otherwise, plonkers like me will get somebody killed. On the other hand, I’m a pretty considerate driver. Go figure. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_great_unwashed/32/4791_2.png) [@The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-car-out-of-the-fucking-cycle-lane/179704/42 "2003-06-05T17:17:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Gary Kumquat \* > \*\*And for UK cyclists only (as I don’t know the rules in the US) - get the fuck off the pavement. \*\* I know this is a cyclists’ love-in, but: I can live with cyclists cycling on the pavement, it’s when the cheeky fuckers happily jump on a pedestrian crossing to make their right-hand turns that makes me reach for the tyre-iron Bastards! ---
**Author:** ![manwithaplan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@manwithaplan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manwithaplan)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-car-out-of-the-fucking-cycle-lane/179704/43 "2003-06-05T17:24:47Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TwistofFate \* > \*\*As for Taxi Drivers, If I get one more telling me that the way to solve the housing crisis is by sending the refugees home, it’ll be my face appearing on the photofit in the Evening Herald. \*\* Actually, **Twisty** , now that I come to think about it, quite a lot of those photofits look remarkably like you. They didn’t take pictures of you to produce the photofit components by any chance? ---
**Author:** ![Anahita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Anahita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anahita)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-car-out-of-the-fucking-cycle-lane/179704/44 "2003-06-05T18:37:51Z")
I enjoy it when the cab drivers wax poetic about how all them A-rabs are crazy and they should just be bombed into oblivious. Especially those eye-rain-eeans. Yeehaw. Rednecks with shamrocks for brains! ---
**Author:** ![Anahita](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9a28c/32.png) [@Anahita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anahita)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-car-out-of-the-fucking-cycle-lane/179704/45 "2003-06-05T18:39:18Z")
Yes, **oblivious** was the word used. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![hockeynut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c68b51/32.png) [@hockeynut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hockeynut)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-car-out-of-the-fucking-cycle-lane/179704/46 "2003-06-05T19:16:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JerH \* > **On a somewhat related topic - what’s up with bicyclists who _won’t use the bike paths?_ There’s a section of road near my apartment where a multi-use trail runs along the side and I regularly see people bicycling in the street. Yeah, I know they’re legallly allowed in the street, and if they used the multi-use trail they’d have to swerve around a pedestrian or a skater every block or so, but don’t they think that staying off a curving road where cars regularly do 45 (regardless of the 25 mph speed limit) might be a good idea?** Someone mentioned the rollerbladers. Toss in strollers, joggers and pedestrians and these trails can be a mess. Another problem with these multi-use trails is that they inevitably cross a driveway or side road. Drivers often fail to look when crossing even when the side road or driveway is marked with a yield and crossing marks. I’ve been hit by cars twice while biking and both times were on multi-use trails. Also, I’ve occasionally encountered a regular curb at a crossing, when I expected a cut curb, and gone ass over handlebars. I’ll stick to the street, thanks. Less dangerous. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/get-your-car-out-of-the-fucking-cycle-lane/179704.md?page=2)