“You know what else I saw on my half-hour commute to the Slate offices? At least 30 cars idling in the bike lane for unspecified reasons—hazard lights on—forcing me to maintain forward momentum by jackknifing into the busy thoroughfare.”
“You know what else I saw on my half-hour commute to the Slate offices? At least 30 cars idling in the bike lane for unspecified reasons—hazard lights on—forcing me to maintain forward momentum by jackknifing into the busy thoroughfare.”
Fucking cops. IF they were ticketing the damn cars as well as bikes, well I guess fair play. This selective shit going after people who are actually helping improve the traffic issue is so crappy on several levels. Police departments really need to have some type of community board oversight.
Fuck the cities, too. They’ve kept these laws knowing that cycling infrastructure is insufficient and that the laws are poorly enforced. If the city can’t provide safe infrastructure for cyclists, they shouldn’t be outlawing reasonable actions to stay safe (by all means, ticket anyone cycling aggressively on the side walk, but not just for being there).
They “need” numbers to justify work, to justify budgets. Poorer people are easier targets so they get more numbers against poorer people and therefor target poorer people. Trying to ticket a rich guy in a Lambo is just asking for months of trial work and a lawyer.
That needs to be fixed. Either by address the way police get their budgets/selected, and/or making the courts more fair (progressive fine schemes also help make the bigger whale cases “worth it” for example).