This is how I feel about a roundabout they built by my house. It is to help cars get on and off I-35 frontage roads while also keeping local traffic moving east-to-west. This has been great for cars but not great for humans because you have to cross what are basically on- and off-ramps depending on which side of the circle you are on. If I’m on my e-bike I usually just skip the ped improvements and just blast through the outside lane of the roundabout itself (because it has two lanes of course, further complicating everything).
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Walking home from lunch, there was a car halfway in the crosswalk waiting for a red light. As I approached he creeped even farther so I swung my arms out in despair and shouted “wtf are you doing?” As I passed he rolled his window down so I pointed at my ear to show him I was wearing headphones but I could still hear him say “sorry about that.” Now I’m feeling like the jackass god dammit.
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Nope don’t fuck em.
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Yeah no. Fuck that guy. He was the jackass. Hopefully the interaction helps him realize that crosswalks aren’t the place to wait to make a turn.
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Second day in a row the sidewalk has been blocked at the same spot and I’ve had to walk on a busy road to get home. Two different cars. Why??
Something going on in those bushes?
Any trail into the woods nearby where people could be conducting extralegal business of some kind?
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There actually is a maintained trail right there that goes up to the next road. It even has a street sign for some reason…asume it was a road at one point then a landslide took it.
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People in the neighborhood Buy Nothing bitching about the parking lot at the HEB in the neighborhood. The HEB that has a nearly-empty bike rack and is at most 2 miles away from anybody posting in this group 
I get that the cagers with kids probably think they are buying a Suburban’s worth of groceries every time they go but it’s one of those things where the parking lot wouldn’t be a disaster if all the people buying 2 or less was on a bike or walking. And I know this because I bike there 99% of the time and it’s fine!
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I’ve turned off notifications and tapped out but the gall of some people! It’s like a greatest hits of car brain. Not everybody can walk or bike! But also, transit here sucks! And the new bus stops are too big and they block traffic! (editor’s note: those new bus stops are handicap friendly, you know, for the people that can’t walk or cycle…)
When I mentioned that there’s a service in our neighborhood that will take you from your front door to the store and back, on demand, for $2.50, they say not everybody can afford $2.50! WELL IF YOU CAN’T AFFORD $2.50, YOU SURE AS FUCK CAN’T AFFORD TO DRIVE TO THE FUCKIN STORE!!! A AAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHH
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Lol they said not everyone can afford the bus, so they should drive? That’s incredible.
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it’s real bad. car brain is 
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I see that argument a lot. In some folks’ defense, the jobs here are far from most affordable residential areas and transit is pretty slow and unreliable. Time = money, can’t spend 2 hours traveling 5 miles to work.
They could probably ride bikes but that’s for drunks, gentrifiers and houseless people.
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That I get but keep in mind this was specifically about how the parking lot in the neighborhood grocery store is too small lol
And while the “$2.50 is unaffordable” is overall silly, it does reflect a reality where poor people around here have to spend so much money on owning and maintaining a personal automobile that spending $2.50 on a ride to the store rather than most of a gallon of gas might appear crazy. But that’s still more of an indictment of car dependency in general than it is the municipal ride share.
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Alluded to this in the “went for a ride” thread, but figured I’d add to here too. Went for a long ride in the mountains yesterday. The high mountain/canyon roads are very popular among sports car drivers and moto riders. For the most part they and the cyclists have a decent understanding, pass when its safe, etc. The weather was particularly nice yesterday (especially considering how grey its been in SoCal for the past few months), so in addition to all that, there were a TON of people out hiking and sightseeing and generally not going ‘fast’ on windy mountain roads. All of which is to say that it probably wasn’t the best day for doing canyon runs in cars/motos, unless one likes to get caught up behind slower moving traffic. Obviously not everyone’s schedules allow for this, but the best time to go for a drive is very early on a weekday morning and the worst time to do so is on a sunny weekend afternoon, but I digress. My buddy and I start a windy and narrow descent quickly followed by a short uphill that’s a bit more straight. There’s not many opportunities for a car to pass (further down the road there are passing lanes and turnouts, but there are none of those on this stretch). Two sports cars come ripping around us around a blind corner and the second of the cars pulls immediately in front of me and brake checks me pretty hard. When I shouted “WHOA” loud enough that the guy in the car clearly heard, he threw a middle finger out his sunroof. Been a long time since someone deliberately used their car as a weapon towards me.
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the hill i live on is both the car/moto cruising road and the road cycling hot spot. most people cruising are smart enough to go at night after the bikes are out, but unfortunately there’s many jackasses who braap by at 3am extremely loud.
yesterday I was behind a truck that had a passenger with their feet out the window when they suddenly started flooring it, then slamming on the brakes, then repeat. i thought i was gonna watch them roll the damn thing right in front of me. trying to impress his lady i guess. but she was gonna break both legs when he rolled that thing driving like a JA.
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unrelated, but if you ever see me riding up your hill, feel free to say hey! I’ve kind of fallen out of being diligent about my climbing laps but it’s still one of the best climbs close to denver.
i am not sure i know what you look like! plus off the top of my head the only bike i remember you own is the weird nishiki, which i am guessing isn’t your lookout climbing bike. but if it is,i will just yell alp at the next nishiki cargo bike i see.
probably easier to recognize me based off my dog companion.
also coincidentally i ran into tarcker @dema while walking the dog today.
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Great seeing you Amy! Sorry if I kinda hit you with some heavy stuff, the first time seeing you in like 10 years. Been a rough week or two for me.
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Everytime I walk to lunch on my break I get to hear about it from my idiot coworkers.
Guys, it’s a beautiful day, theres multiple restaurants within a five minutes walk and parks in between. I ain’t riding in that work truck unless I’m on the clock.
These fuckin yokels don’t know how to live life.
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These two articles pair well.
I can’t read gothamist anymore lol. Every article is so depressing.
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