ItsJustMe

Please, for the love of FSM, don't do me that "favor" - if I couldn't handle traffic I wouldn't be on the road. You're just creating traffic disruptions and making things wildly unpredictable - and IMO making it MORE dangerous for the cyclist.

e0richt

so if goofy is a dog, and pluto is a dog. why doesn't pluto walk on 2 legs and talk?

mgw4jc

According to Goofy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Goofy is a funny animal cartoon character created in 1932 at Walt Disney Productions. Goofy is a tall, anthropomorphic dog, and typically wears a turtle neck and vest, with pants, shoes, white gloves, and a tall hat originally designed as a rumpled fedora."

Dave Cutter

You can blame the behavior. The courts did in this case. But humans don't behave like programed machines... humans behave like people. Once you let the admittedly erratic... yet normal behavior get under your skin.... traffic could become unbearable.

Every person you see today and everyday is only here temporarily. That includes the person you saw in the mirror when brushing your teeth. Lighten up and enjoy every ride.

TransitBiker

Like I've said many times. We need better driver education from the start. Better signs, perhaps put them on existing posts where speed limit and stop signs are mounted.

- Andy

spare_wheel

how the heck does driving slowly for a minute or two make it more dangerous for the cyclist?
i reject the "car head" attitude that motorists are immediately entitled to pass slower traffic or that slower traffic speeds are "disruptive". i enjoy being slow traffic in a car just like i enjoy being fast traffic on a bike.
and if you don't like the way i bike or drive you can always use a different road.

spare_wheel

nonsense. driving under the speed limit on a city street is not at all the same thing as abruptly stopping your car in the middle of a high-speed separated freeway (without even turning on your hazard lights).

ItsJustMe

I've had people hanging back behind me when it was completely safe to pass with good sightlines - then the person behind THEM got fed up and zoomed around us both with the pedal to the floor. That's far more dangerous than if the first person had just safely passed.

I don't care how fast someone drives, but I do get bugged when someone in a car is hovering behind me, usually too close (should I fall, they probably wouldn't be able to avoid hitting me) when it's perfectly safe to pass. Especially since they wind up building up a line of cars behind them, and those drivers are probably blaming ME for being the one holding up traffic.

I solve this problem by simply stopping in place without pulling over (remember, there's plenty of room to pass) and just waiting until they realize that their car is NOT, in fact, 37 feet wide.

One interesting point of data is that often these people pass me by pulling so far into the oncoming lane that they're nearly in the shoulder - in fact I have had people drive in the shoulder of the oncoming lane (giving me probably 20 feet of space). I assume that either they're complete idiots who have no idea how wide their car is, or they assume that bicycle riders are all incompetent children that might suddenly veer into traffic, so they as the "responsible" road users have to be the ones to look out for them.