Why do some car lovers oppose bike infrastructure, when more bikes would mean fewer cars on the road?

Like you sit in traffic for an hour each day to work. Wouldn’t you want to halve that by having more other people use bicycles instead?

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    13 hours ago

    Prep the downvotes.

    I live in a larger Canadian city. I used to commute via transit. Sometimes the bus driver would stop abruptly. Every time the driver needed to stop the bus hard - twice a month - it was a bicyclist driving erratically, like cutting off a transit bus or, in one case, brake-checking the bus.

    I’ve almost been hit twice - same intersection, different days - by a cyclist running the red, shooting through the crosswalk I was on, and cursing me out for it.

    I have an idea as to why drivers worry about more bikes on the roadways.

    I’ve been abroad. I’ve seen segregated bikeways where there’s a ribbon of green space between bicyclists and cars. This works really well. What they’re doing here Does Not .

    But the reverse is true, and this is why I do not envy bicyclists : they’re gonna die on these metro roadways where they are mixing bikes and cars and tractor-trailers and buses, and fast. I have no desire to be someone else’s lesson on blind spots.

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Cyclists being stupid is why i want them segregated from me. And pedestrians, too.

      Like. No. If we never cross paths, they can’t be idiots and bolt out of a blind corner and get turned into a red smear, and send me to jail.

    • jet@hackertalks.com
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      12 hours ago

      Yeah. Most drivers only exposure to cyclists sharing the road is a anxious experience of very different speeds, erratic movements, no signaling, and ignoring the traffic rules (surprising the drivers).