Originally Posted by
Leisesturm
Well... I'm just saying... if it was me, I'd have been in the bus lane. I'd have been rocking that bus lane. There are some streets around here that have way more parked cars in them than the one in the video. I love them. Most cars won't use the far right lane because when they come to a parked car they are going to have to fight to merge left. I use what space is there between the parked cars and the lane to the left without breaking cadence. Can you say "door zone" boys and girls. Works for me. At the time of day (night) that the video was taken I'd have been all over that bus lane and the confrontation would never have happened. It's legal here to to use the traffic lane as well, and if a driver sideswipes you because they were raging they would get whats coming to them. Not enough, sadly, and that's why I choose to avoid confrontation rather than prepare for it. I'm going to get squat out of it if I am hit, camera or no camera.
So is it safe to presume that you take the view as John Forester has said numerous times of cyclist inferiority, i.e. because we're not operating an automobile so that we for whatever reason do not have the same right to be on the road with them. It is high time that that way of thinking changed. We have just as much right to use the road as any motorist.
Hell, in what might be a rare occurrence even the judge who heard the case agreed that the cyclist did
NOT do anything wrong nor was he "required" as the now former bus driver thought or you to use the bus/bike lane. And the last time that I checked steering wheels are capable of turning both to the right and the left to avoid obstacles in their path. And if they fly into a fit of rage every time that see someone in front of them who is on a bicycle well I think that it is safe to say that they probably shouldn't be driving a car in the first place.
And I could be mistaken, but I don't think that his having multiple cameras running at the time of the incident had any bearing on his actions that night. It did however provide evidence that contradicted the sworn statement of the now former bus driver. And trust me this past Wednesday night I wished that I had had a camera. And
IF I am not mistaken we've heard from members here who have said the presence of their cameras had kept things from escalating.