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  Joe

  5 years ago

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  In the USA, both of those guys would think long and hard before getting involved in an incident like that. They still happen all the time, but sometimes these disagreements are ended with a gun. And the guy who punched him could legally be shot and very little if anything would happen to the biker.

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  Mr Focus

  5 years ago

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  @ Tom Mc
  
  The lifetime costs of crash-related deaths and injuries among drivers and passengers were $70 billion in 2005
  
  Costly and idiotic indeed.

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  Mr Focus

  5 years ago

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  Look at all those empty car lanes....
  
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  Adam

  5 years ago

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  @Tom Mc.
  
  Experiments in Scandinavia have shown reductions in vehicle speed can actually increase throughput in urban areas. No matter how fast your vehicle is capable of traveling, negotiating intersections is about the same speed for all users...

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  Thijmen

  5 years ago

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  Weird video. It's ok to be right, but it's not ok to be aggressively smug about being right. I was agreeing with that dude saying something to the driver about stopping in the bicycle lane, but following him to further lecture him about his action? The car had already stopped in the right spot (actually quite neatly) at the very next red light.
  
  Of course the actions of the cyclist do not justify the attack, but he could have seen that coming. You can see the dude actively chasing and then making wild gestures indicating that he probably is swearing or at least harassing the dude verbally (and not wearing a helmet is kind of dumb - as you can see the professionals in this video are much more smart by not saying anything and protecting themselves).
  
  Bike messengers and other dudes on racing bikes in the city are kind of notorious of being a problem factor, and they are as often guilty to aggressive or dangerous behaviour as the people in cars.
  
  And this comes from a dude on a racing bike in the city.

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  Carlos

  5 years ago

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  hi,
  here it is the designers web. I follow him since a while. Spanish, from Catalonia, Curro Claret.
  http://www.curroclaret.com/en/necesitan_carrilbici.html
  
  In Barcelona "armadillos" are working perfect. They are widely installed in most bike lanes and, as a biker, I have never had any problem but felt more "protected" against car violence.
  The first days when they were installed many cars continued to invade the lane (with more difficulties) but now it is very rare to see one. I guess some kind of education/conscience has reached car users behavior.
  
  (Please, excuse my english)

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  Clayton

  5 years ago

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  Look at all those empty bike lanes....

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  NIKOS

  5 years ago

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  In my opinion those rubber bumps are very dangerous.
  If after a rainfall, your front wheel accidentally make contact with it at any angle the bike will continue one way and you will go flying over the handlebars the other way, usually in the middle of the car lane.
  We had many miles of those here in Athens Greece. They used to separate the bus lanes –that serve as bike lanes as well- but after many accidents and even deaths of bike users they are finally removed.
  

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  Tom Mc

  5 years ago

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  Reducing throughput and speed of automotive traffic for the sake of bike traffic is a costly and idiotic idea.
  
  *adding* lanes for bikes, and segregating them with these is a great idea.

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