Originally Posted by
livedarklions
Gotta tell, you, that's pretty obnoxious.
I have no idea what you think you're doing in this thread, but you asked our opinion about siren whistles, not "how much do you know about the Jedda bike path." Frankly, that path is a lot more interesting to you than it is to us, there's nothing particularly unusual about an urban bike path with pedestrians on it. The big difference between Jedda and most U.S. bike paths is that here, there isn't even a pretense that pedestrians shouldn't be on the bike path.
I don't know, most bike paths I've been on here in the U.S. don't have a huge center area for peds, they have a single lane in each direction that is for EVERYONE and as a cyclist you have no more right than a skate-boarder, dog-walker, jogger or young couple in love to cut to the head of the peleton. In that scene above on what I think is the Brooklyn Bridge ... well unless things have changed in the 10 years since I left ... there is no bike lane on the Brooklyn Bridge. Cyclists are suppose to walk the 1.1 miles across the river along with the peds. None, including me ever did that of course, but I for one never assumed that peds should get out of my way unless they did so of their own accord. If I couldn't immediately get past them, I bided my time until I could.