• Herr Woland@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    I don’t know where you come from (I guess US?) but I live in a city that has a very long bike lane shared with pedestrian sidewalk and I take that road very often, nothing ever happens. Worst case scenario I just ring my bicycle bell and they move aside, which is a plus because I love ringing my bell :)

    • Treczoks@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      I guess US?

      Nope. Europe.

      Worst case scenario I just ring my bicycle bell and they move aside

      That’s what I’m talking about: Bikers complain about cars, but totally ignore their relationship to pedestrians. “I ring my bell and let them hop away”…

      • psud@aussie.zone
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

        When pedestrians occupy the full width of the path, what do you expect me to do but ring my bell to ask for room to pass them?

        • Treczoks@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          Asking for room is OK. But the usual tone is “jump out of the way, or else!”. Just today there was a letter to the editor in the newspaper about reckless bikers in a busy underpass here. Admittedly, this underpass is to narrow for it’s use, but this women regularly observes bikers who speed up down the ramp to the underpass and basically plow through the pedestrian passage at full speed from both directions - and the passage is just 3m/10ft wide.

          • psud@aussie.zone
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            1 year ago

            That sounds like really bad pathway design, I presume the underpass has a downhill entry and uphill exit, encouraging cyclists to gain speed on entry to make the exit easier

            I would complain about that underpass rather than the people using it the obvious way

            • Treczoks@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              1 year ago

              Actually, it does not encourage cyclists to speed down there. It is a pedestrian underpass, and the signs say that cyclists must dismount. But cyclists being cyclists, they don’t.