Originally Posted by PriO
hey, cut them some slack. have you ever seen a delivery guy riding in the center line? no, they stay to the left.
these guys might not ride on the correct side but they dont ride wildly around swerving through traffic.
OK, I'll cut them some slack, but I will say that whenever I see cops ticketing food delivery guys, I feel satisfied that the cops are actually doing something useful.
It does suck for anyone to get hit by a car, especially when they aren't wearing a helmet (a helmet saved my life last summer by the way).
The #1 reason why people have a negative attitude about bicyclists in NYC are because these food delivery guys who cut people off, ride on sidewalks, ride down the wrong side of the street and have no regard at all for people around them.
I work in Midtown (48th & Park Ave.) and I see it every single day, a woman crossing the street getting nearly run over by a food delivery guy going the wrong way down the street and not wearing a helmet to boot. They ride like complete morons and act like a*sholes about it.
That is why I felt zero sympathy when I first read this post. Maybe if this guy had been wearing a helmet, he wouldn't be in critical condition and would have made it home with just a prescription for ibuprofen, rather than having a cracked skull and brain trauma.