Originally Posted by
queerpunk
Congestion doesn't mean a line of cars moving at 10 mph. It means SUVs gunning it around traffic through the bike lane. It means people running reds. It means right hooks. It means cabs rocketing off the Williamsburg Bridge at 50mph and crossing four lanes of traffic. It means livery cars parked in the bike lane.
Originally Posted by
lukewall
Thats just for starters. I was even talking about the sheer amount of people you get in NYC. The people walking to work during rush hour with a large coffee in one hand and their phone to their ear in the other....walking through intersections without looking. Add that on top of deer in headlights tourists.
And the times the DOT forgets to salt the bridges when it gets icy. One of my favorites.
And this is different than every single other city in North America how? Aside from the fact that the pace of traffic looks a whole lot slower, you just described what I imagine every one of us living in a city of over 500,000 has to deal with on a daily basis.
Except for Portland.
