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nm posted:Passing a large column of bikes isn't hard as they are generally no more than a car length or two and moving 20-30 mph. Its like passing a tractor. Passing 40-odd fuckers on an 80 zoned provincial road, while they ride 5 or more abreast and take up the entire lane, is impossible. Generally 80kph roads here have restrictions on overtaking because it often isn't safe. Blind corners, polder blindness, relatively narrow lanes. Trees blocking line of sight at intersections and driveways. There is a drat good reason why traffic that can't do at least 50kph is banned from those roads by law. Go ride your bike on the special parallel lane for slow traffic, where there is a 30kph speed limit. Every year Armstrong wannabes commit suicide by HGV this way. And the worst part is, the motorist is liable for the damages. Not the Lycra wrapped cunts who ride on roads they have no business being on.
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55mph zone. Third car back in the left lane, truck in the right lane. Both lanes doing 45-50. Guy ahead of me is tailgating the guy ahead of him, I'm a good 3-4 car lengths back. First car gets a wild idea and speeds up to the speed limit, tailgater climbs right up his rear end, when there's room for me to change lanes carefully and get away from this situation with the skinny pedal on the right, I put my signal on, change lanes, and begin to undertake (Not a thing I regularly do) and suddenly tailgater swings into the right lane, double flips me off, and stands on his brakes when I'm about a car length behind him and a lane over. I don't know what the gently caress I did, I don't know what the gently caress crawled up his rear end, but he decided for the next several miles that I wasn't allowed to pass and matched the speed of the guy he had been tailgating (two lanes wide) until it widened to three and then took the two rightmost lanes zig-zagging over the dotted line so I couldn't safely pass. Eventually we got to my exit, he took it, I took it much slower because nutbag, and he started driving like an adult all of a sudden and we went our separate ways once off the highway. GSF-1943 was the plate, I think. Ohio. Toyota, dark blue, maybe a Camry. Wish I could vote people off this planet.
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Jan 16, 2016 22:33
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Angry drivers are the funniest until they kill someone. Deedle posted:Passing a column riding one or two abreast on the right most side of the lane isn't a problem. Even if there's a couple dozen of them. Also, you sound really angry. You probably don't want to drive angry.
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Jan 16, 2016 22:53
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I was coming down an on ramp to get on the highway. Because of all the cars on the highway, a ramp meter was running. The car a few cars in front of me stopped for the light. The truck behind them wasn't paying attention and almost rear ended them. They swerved at the last moment and came to a stop a couple of feet before taking out the light itself. At that point, they decided the best course of action was to just drive around the light in the grass, get back on the pavement on the other side, and continue like nothing happened.
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Jan 16, 2016 23:42
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nm posted:In CA, on a narrow road, the behavior would be legal, though th3y'd be legally required to turn out if 5 cars got stuck behind them. hhahahhahahahahhahahahahahahahaha
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Jan 16, 2016 23:43
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atomicthumbs posted:hhahahhahahahahhahahahahahahahaha I've seen bicycle use them more than any vehcile but local semi trucks.
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Jan 17, 2016 01:17
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nm posted:I'm specifically talking about roads (which are most roads not in cities in the US), where it is impossible to pass a bicycle safely without leaving the lane. My neighbourhood is along a major bicycle route which services the largest mall in the area and two high schools. I have to deal with the idiocy of teenage bicyclists on a daily basis. I used to be one of the teenage idiot bicyclists, riding with my walkman on, not turning on my lights because those old dynamos were a pain in the rear end. Not signaling turns, no over the shoulder checking, running red lights. You name a stupid thing teenagers on bicycles do, I probably did it. Right up to the point where I was lucky to get out of the way as my bike got ran over by a HGV trailer that cut way more to the inside of the corner than I expected. It was my fault, I shouldn't have passed the HGV on that side, the driver couldn't possibly have seen me. Nearly being killed changed the way I deal with traffic. It also made me have very little tolerance for the stupidity of others in traffic. I'll be the first to brake to avoid an accident, but I will also be the one swearing at the person I had to brake for. On the motorway, unless I left too late, I am generally the person in the slow lane cruising 50m behind an HGV. Bitching about those maniacs in the fast lane and how some guy overtaking me is a moron for not matching speed with traffic before changing lanes. I do have very little tolerance for adults who pretend their inconvenience in dealing with traffic that is within 15kph of their own speed is a valid reason to make others have to deal with 50+kph speed differences on roads not designed to cope with that. I understand that the situation in the US is different and that bicycle infrastructure in rural areas doesn't exist. However the quality of bicycle infrastructure doesn't seem to matter. Bicycle infrastructure here is excellent. There are clearly marked lanes and paths nation wide. The TdF fetishists just want to create a dangerous situation on purpose and they will always find an excuse for it.
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Jan 17, 2016 01:20
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groups of bicyclists are possibly the only excuse i've encountered for ranch hand bumpers
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Jan 17, 2016 18:50
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In boston for the week, again. Boston drivers are funny as hell. Talking a walk down Brighton Avenue after parking and a bunch of people are double parked with their hazards on. One Douchenozzle that's been double parked for about fifteen minutes pulls out, and then gets behind another shitbag thats double parked, and has the audacity to start honking. Yesterday, I saw a cyclist run a red light and T-bone another cyclist. I seriously need to bring my dashcam out of my car at home and hook it up to my rental car, I'd have enough footage for a youtube channel just for my week here.
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Jan 17, 2016 20:31
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Snow storm in West Michigan tonight, let the normal 15 minute commute that is now a 1 hour commute in the morning commence!
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Jan 18, 2016 02:22
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ratbert90 posted:Snow storm in West Michigan tonight, let the normal 15 minute commute that is now a 1 hour commute in the morning commence! Tomorrow is a holiday though!
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Jan 18, 2016 02:54
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ratbert90 posted:Snow storm in West Michigan tonight, let the normal 15 minute commute that is now a 1 hour commute in the morning commence! Here in Virginia we got just enough snow to cover cars, but not stick to anything else. Did anyone clean their windows? gently caress no. There were also 4 accidents on one 4 mile straightaway on the highway with no exits or sideroads.
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Jan 18, 2016 03:03
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The Locator posted:Tomorrow is a holiday though! While this is true, I am not sure if I have a holiday or not tomorrow. I carpool with the wife, so worse case scenario is that I drop her off, drive 5 minutes to work, and if nobody is there, drive home.
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Jan 18, 2016 03:45
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The Locator posted:Tomorrow is a holiday though! Only if you work for a bank or the federal government...
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Jan 18, 2016 03:50
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Geoj posted:Only if you work for a bank or the federal government... I work for neither a bank, nor the federal government, and I have tomorrow as a holiday (of course we no longer get President's day, because the total number of holidays during the year remains 7).
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Jan 18, 2016 05:10
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Geoj posted:Only if you work for a bank or the federal government... I think most big non-retail businesses have it off. There was a big thing when pricewaterhouse stopped observing it.
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Jan 18, 2016 05:25
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PCOS Bill posted:55mph zone. Third car back in the left lane, truck in the right lane. Both lanes doing 45-50. Guy ahead of me is tailgating the guy ahead of him, I'm a good 3-4 car lengths back. Sorry, that was not the plate. Publicdata.com shows no matching records for that plate in Ohio.
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Jan 18, 2016 05:58
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nm posted:I think most big non-retail businesses have it off. There was a big thing when pricewaterhouse stopped observing it. It may be a good chunk but it's far from all. At least traffic will be light tomorrow.
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Jan 18, 2016 06:04
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IOwnCalculus posted:It may be a good chunk but it's far from all. At least traffic will be light tomorrow. Arizona doesn't count. We may have to threaten to take another superbowl.
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Jan 18, 2016 07:35
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Daily reminder that if you're going to be walking down a road with no streetlights at 7PM at night, it's probably a good idea not be wearing all black.
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Jan 18, 2016 16:27
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nitrogen posted:One Douchenozzle that's been double parked for about fifteen minutes pulls out, and then gets behind another shitbag thats double parked, and has the audacity to start honking. Wow, that's some impressive hypocrisy/self unawareness/FYGM behavior and pretty much makes me wish it was legal to curbstomp people like that.
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Jan 18, 2016 16:41
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Had some moron old woman pull out into heavy traffic and just make her own lane by using a wide shoulder. She kept on going until she ran out of room and proceeded to attempt to merge into me, thankfully the guy to my left noticed this poo poo and made room for me to move over. She loving well knew I was there because she started entering my lane before she was even parallel and kept coming when I laid on the horn. The idiot was running out of space due to an upcoming bridge so she just made her own!
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kastein posted:Wow, that's some impressive hypocrisy/self unawareness/FYGM behavior and pretty much makes me wish it was legal to curbstomp people like that. Pretty much bostondrivers.txt from what i see every time I'm down here. Last time I was down here, I saw some genius pull this right in front of a cop. There's a traffic light at an area like this, with a diversion into a parking lot, and a road that comes right back out again. A cop was sitting there. Some genius decides to avoid the light by darting in and out of a parking lot, and the cop lit him up.  This wasn't the exact location, but it's similar enough to describe what happened a few months ago. (Because I don't remember exactly where I was when it happened)
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I am not a violent man, but parking like this on a full parking lot makes me want to merge my car with his in righteous release. He's taking up at least 3 spots and you can see how he just zombie drove up next to the car on the left and figured "this is the correct angle to park in  " 
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Jan 19, 2016 20:13
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No, I can't see. It's nothing but white poo poo.
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nitrogen posted:Last time I was down here, I saw some genius pull this right in front of a cop. There's a traffic light at an area like this, with a diversion into a parking lot, and a road that comes right back out again. A cop was sitting there. Some genius decides to avoid the light by darting in and out of a parking lot, and the cop lit him up. Out of curiosity, what exactly do you charge someone like that with? Assuming as they drive through the parking lot they aren't crossing over painted lines or speeding, if there something about just obvious light evasion? I've certainly just missed lights that are so long I decided to turn right then make a legal u-turn to avoiding waiting, but I wonder if that qualifies.
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davebo posted:Out of curiosity, what exactly do you charge someone like that with? Assuming as they drive through the parking lot they aren't crossing over painted lines or speeding, if there something about just obvious light evasion? I've certainly just missed lights that are so long I decided to turn right then make a legal u-turn to avoiding waiting, but I wonder if that qualifies. I'm guessing trespassing since it involves private property.
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PenisMonkey posted:No, I can't see. It's nothing but white poo poo. It's not hard, if you get to a snow covered parking lot and see something parked there, slide in next to it with a 1-2 foot gap, just like you would if it was a gravel parking lot or any other flat piece of earth with no paint.
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Jan 19, 2016 21:02
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davebo posted:Out of curiosity, what exactly do you charge someone like that with? Assuming as they drive through the parking lot they aren't crossing over painted lines or speeding, if there something about just obvious light evasion? I've certainly just missed lights that are so long I decided to turn right then make a legal u-turn to avoiding waiting, but I wonder if that qualifies. Most municipalities have local laws against "shortcutting", if there isn't a state law against it. Usually it carries the same penalty as running a red light or stop sign.
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Geoj posted:Most municipalities have local laws against "shortcutting", if there isn't a state law against it. Usually it carries the same penalty as running a red light or stop sign. And most cops don't give a poo poo unless they have some other reason to pull you over so it will never get punished. Assuming there's even a cop within 10 miles when someone cuts through a parking lot.
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Jan 19, 2016 21:15
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That's generally known as evading a light.
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Jan 19, 2016 21:21
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Dunno what it is out here in Boston, but the releavant Texas law would be: http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/docs/TN/htm/TN.545.htm quote:Sec. 545.423. CROSSING PROPERTY. (a) An operator may not cross a sidewalk or drive through a driveway, parking lot, or business or residential entrance without stopping the vehicle.
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poo poo I see people try that all the time with highway traffic. Get off, but go straight at the light back onto the onramp. Except oh yeah there's a light controlling that all and instead of sitting in traffic now you're sitting at a light. So it never really works.
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i pretty much do that poo poo every day along with everyone else because this city never thought theyd need dedicated right turn lanes for people coming off the loops
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Protocol7 posted:poo poo I see people try that all the time with highway traffic. Get off, but go straight at the light back onto the onramp. There's a stretch on i35 where you can do this 5 exits in a row where the access road gets back on before a light. Saved me about 15 minutes on that commute.
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Bovril Delight posted:There's a stretch on i35 where you can do this 5 exits in a row where the access road gets back on before a light. Saved me about 15 minutes on that commute. No lights though. I mean I know it can pay off sometimes, regions are different, I just know it really doesn't around where I live.
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Geoj posted:Most municipalities have local laws against "shortcutting", if there isn't a state law against it. Usually it carries the same penalty as running a red light or stop sign. When I lived in Oregon the law was against "using private property for public access" which at least one guy I knew in college got a ticket for. Traffic stopped at a red, he turned in to the gas station and immediately exited on the cross street, cop lit him up. Of course he was driving a slammed hot pink mini truck, he drew that attention everywhere he went.
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Protocol7 posted:poo poo I see people try that all the time with highway traffic. Get off, but go straight at the light back onto the onramp. I have seen it work for people. It really depends on how congested the intersection and ramps are and what point in the light cycle you get. Not something I'd try unless I really knew the area.
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I'm okay with the professional full gear bicyclists who stick to the road when they do it responsibly and follow laws, logic, common sense and traffic lights but the roads here are ancient and tight, there's no way for a compact car to pass other than pushing them to the curb, they just continue pissing in their spats and riding along helmet down dreaming of the day old people get to see them on Eurosport. Binge on London two-wheeler dashcams if you want to see the most suicidal law-breaking dipshit dimwits of bicyclists.Killstick posted:I am not a violent man, but parking like this on a full parking lot makes me want to merge my car with his in righteous release. He's taking up at least 3 spots and you can see how he just zombie drove up next to the car on the left and figured "this is the correct angle to park in If it wasn't for the blue bus I'd wonder which part of my town of Västerås that was taken in, that's uncanny 
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xzzy posted:It's not hard, if you get to a snow covered parking lot and see something parked there, slide in next to it with a 1-2 foot gap, just like you would if it was a gravel parking lot or any other flat piece of earth with no paint. When I commuted to college it had snowed one morning and the parking lots had not been plowed, so people did what you described, parked next to each other in an orderly way, then went to class. It was a light snow though, and a few hours later it had melted, revealing that people were parked orderly, but of course all on top of the lines in the lot. The campus cops were going from one car to another, writing tickets. They didn't make many friends that day and the administration ended up getting involved and cancelling them. I can almost understand if someone just parked without caring, but people had actually parked orderly, just outside of the lines because THE drat LOT WASN'T CLEARED AND THE LINES WEREN'T VISIBLE.
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